Christina Luke
Faculty Profiles
Christina Luke
Lecturer
Office: CAS Writing Program, 730 Commonwealth Avenue
Office Phone: 617-358-1500
E-mail: cluke@bu.edu
Christine Luke has two main areas of research: heritage policy, cultural diplomacy and legislation and the role of boundaries in defining cultural spheres, both in the past and present. Her policy work focuses on international heritage, building on eight years of work with the Cultural Heritage Centers at the Department of State and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Areas of interest are Latin America and the Balkans and Anatolia. She is currently involved in projects in western Turkey (Central Lydia Archaeological Survey) and Montenegro exploring the implications of western-driven notions of landscape and social identity in the management of natural and cultural places.
Her archaeological work focuses on the rise of social complexity in boundary areas. Her work in Central America explores the Maya/Central America zone in the Ulua Valley of western Honduras; in western Turkey the research focuses on the East Greece/Near East boundaries in Lydia, western Turkey. In both areas the social implications of living along a contested boundary have shaped and continue to shape how populations construct social and political networks and how these are imbedded in social spheres of memory.
The Central Lydia Archaeological Survey (CLAS) is run by Dr. Luke and Christopher Roosevelt. You may visit their site at http://people.bu.edu/chr/CLAS/Home.html
Geographic Interests
Heritage, Law, Policy, and Archaeology in Anatolia, Eastern Mediterranean and Latin America
Education
PhD Cornell University
BA Scripps College for Women
Courses Taught
IR 410 Latin America Today: Cultural Heritage, International Policy and Diplomacy
AR/IR 396/796 Heritage and Diplomacy
AR 210 Maya Civilization
WR 100 Topics in Biological Anthropology: Making Us Human
WR 100 Things and Places
WR 150 Early Explorers and Archaeology: Finding, Buying and Selling the Past
WR 150 Documenting Great Discoveries in Archaeology
WR 150 From the Grand Tour to the Auction House
WR 150 Art, Culture and Diplomacy
Online Articles
- Christina Luke in Bostonia: Loot