Faculty

Faculty

Areas of Interest:

Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples; Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia

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Nubia, ancient Egyptian language (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Biblical Greek, and Biblical Hebrew), religious transformations,

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Domestic art and archaeology of the Western Roman provinces

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Paleoanthropology; simulation modeling; carnivore ecology; hunter-gatherers; stone technology; evolutionary theory; China, Mongolia, Tibet

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Bronze and Iron Age Levant; Archaeology of Warfare; Egyptian Imperialism in Canaan; Eastern Mediterranean trade in the Bronze Age

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Medieval Europe, archaeology of buildings, production and reception of art and architecture, uses and functions of structures and spaces, conservation theory and historiography.

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Egyptology, gender issues of death in ancient Egypt, craft specialization, funerary arts in the ancient world, and ritual studies.

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Undocumented Migration, Violence, Materiality, taphonomy and site
formation processes, archaeology of the contemporary, forensic
science, photoethnography, Latin America, US/Mexico border

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Historical Archaeology of Africa and the African Diaspora, Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trade, Oral History, Community-Based Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Black Geographies

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Iron Age through Sasanian Iran and Southwest Asia, mobile pastoralist/sedentary relationships, the South Caucasus (archaeology, history, and historiography), landscape archaeology, economic history, numismatics, historiography of archaeology, with a focus on Russsophone traditions

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Art history; religious studies; intersection of ritual and art; monumental painting.

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Archaeological materials from the macro to the micro and to the nano length scale; forensic analytical imaging & conservation; materials science; Hellenistic and Roman painting; technology and synthesis of pigments; materials reverse engineering processing and diagenesis

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Archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica

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Social archaeology and cultural history of continental East Asia focusing on emergence early civilizations in Neolithic and Bronze Age China. Historical anthropology, material culture, and conceptions of the past in early modern China. Landscape archaeology, integrating systematic survey, analysis of archaeological ceramics, remote sensing imagery, traditional studies of stone inscriptions and numismatics

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Prehistoric (Bronze Age Aegean) through classical archaeology of Greece; relations with the Near East; Greek literature

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Material culture studies; cross-cultural exchange; hemispheric networks; landscape transformations; spatial theory; construction technology; design of Inca royal estates; Tiahuanaco stone carving; colonial Andean paintings; Brazilian urbanism

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Histories of empires, forced displacement, and race and ethnicity in a global context; ethnic identity in the Roman world; postcolonial theory, queer of color critique, critical race theory and critical refugee studies 

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Aegean prehistory; Greek and Italian archaeology; history and culture of the Classical and later periods; the archaeology of colonialism; the integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past

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Plant materials used as paint binders or patination materials on archaeological and ethnographic objects; the developing role of preventive conservation; and conservation education.

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North American archaeology; population movement; origins of villages and leadership in agricultural societies; settlement systems and analysis; ceramic analysis; social context of archaeological practice; American Southwest

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Ancient Greece and West Asia, mobility and interaction among Syrian, Egyptian, Cretan, Cypriot, and Aegean artists, culturally-specific crafting knowledge

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Urbanism; economic networks; consumption and material culture; anthropology of food; comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.

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Archaeology of China, East and Inner Asia, coordination of archaeological materials and historical sources on ancient China, economic history and history of science and technology

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Archaeological and zooarchaeological research along the eastern Pacific Rim; food and ethnicity; development of social complexity; Caribbean Panama; neotropical archaeology; historical archaeology; natural history; human paleoecology; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; comparative osteology

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Archaeological Conservation; Illicit trade; Cultural heritage management, Contemporary Art Conservation with specialization in time-based media; Artist archives; Addressing social justice, inclusion, and climate change in conservation.

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Urbanism; human mobility; culture and imperialism; ecology and resilience, the Roman economy, archaeological theory, Pre-modern Mediterranean World; Temperate Europe.

Emeriti

Areas of Interest:

archaeological survey, pottery, organic residue analysis, philosophy of mind

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Institutional history; history of religion; historiography; linguistics; archaeology

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Viking Age Scandinavia; Icelandic and Scandinavian archaeology, history, and political economy; feud and control of violence; sagas; the North Atlantic world

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Near East, currently working in Turkey and southeastern Turkey; Bronze Age urban sites

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South American archaeology; iconography; ancient technology; the Moche people

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The archaeology of state formation and urban growth in Ghana and Togo; archaeology of the African Diaspora; cultural conservation and archaeological education in tropical Africa; postage stamps and national cultural policy

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Mathematical anthropology, kinship terminology, theory of social organization, hominid evolution, archaeological classification

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Analysis of museum objects, the characterization of pigments, ancient metals and microstructure, the teaching of conservation, and the archaeometallurgy of preHispanic Colombia and Ecuador

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Andean anthropology; settlement archaeology; evolution of social complexity

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Social context of crafts organization and specialization, ethnoarchaeology, practical use of symbolic space, visual archaeology and the study of regionality versus long distance contacts.