Alum Stefan Cleasson (CAS’92) interviewed by New York Times
Stefan worked with Professor Beaudry at the Spencer-Peirce-Little site in Newbury and after he got his PhD at U New Hampshire worked for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Honolulu (where our PhD Veronica Keyes works) and now has his own consulting business, operating out of the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. Dr. Stefan […]
Four alumni publish in Advances in Archaeological Practice
Regional Ways of Seeing: A Big-Data Approach for Measuring Ancient Visualscapes Natalie M. Susamann (GRS’19) Published online in Advances in Archaeological Practice: 16 April 2020, pp. 1-18 Affording Archaeology: How Field School Costs Promote Exclusivity Laura E. Heath-Stout (GRS’19), Elizabeth M. Hannigan (CAS’19) Published online in Advances in Archaeological Practice: 13 April 2020, pp 1-11 […]
Archaeology majors and PhD student awarded prestigious BU Humanities Center awards
The BU Center for the Humanities Executive Committee selected four Archaeology majors and one Archaeology PhD student to receive the prestigious awards. Regina Isidro Campos (CAS’22) and Priya Patel (CAS’22) received the Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award. Yarden Tsfoni (CAS’22) received the Robert E. Yellin Award. Guzin Erin (GRS’21) received an Edwin S. and Ruth […]
Emily Johnson (CAS’17) recipient of NSF Fellowship
Good news! Our 2017 BA grad Emily Johnson (now a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, https://www.anth.ucsb.edu/people/emily-johnson) is the recipient of a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (https://www.nsfgrfp.org)!! They only awarded 7 in archaeology this year, nationwide, so it’s intensely competitive. The fellowship funds three years of her graduate research. Congratulations Emily!
David Carballo, new evidence from both Teotihuacan and the Maya region in Science Magazine
“Maya travelers visiting Teotihuacan during the fourth century would have encountered a city like no other they had ever seen. Three enormous pyramids loomed over the main street, now known as the Avenue of the Dead, their shapes reflecting snow-capped volcanoes visible in the distance. An orderly grid of roads extended from the avenue, and the […]
Photos of Jane Baxter (CAS’93) talk “Reflections on 25 years of the Archaeology of Childhood”
Dr. Jane Eva Baxter is an alumnus of Boston University (CAS 1993) where she majored in Archaeological Studies. She graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2000 and that same year began as a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at DePaul University. Dr. Baxter is an award-winning […]
David Carballo recipient of Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant
David Carballo will receive $10,000 to lead a community-engaged archaeology project with youth living near the ancient city of Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities of the pre-Columbian Americas. A heavily visited tourist destination and iconic national treasure, Teotihuacan is nonetheless threatened by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. Carballo and colleagues, including artist Pedro Cahuantzi […]
Katie Berlin (CAS’20) featured in CAS News – Arts and Sciences
“Katie Berlin (GRS’20) came to BU after graduating from UC Berkeley because she knew the archaeology program in the Department of Anthropology had top-notch faculty members committed to improving the field as a whole. She quickly became exposed to innovative research techniques, like those of Dr. Andrea Berlin (no relation, Katie says), who created a […]
Alumna Emma Schlauder (CAS’19) recipient of the US-UK Fulbright Barzun Prize
Emma Schlauder (CAS’19) selected as a recipient of the US-UK Fulbright Barzun Prize for Youth Engagement. This award provides funding for a program she is currently designing which will engage in their community through an introduction to archaeology. Emma hopes that this will further the next generation’s interest in the past, desire to further preservation, […]
Curtis Runnels published article in The Concord Saunterer
Professor Runnels has published a new article “Henry David Thoreau, Archaeologist?” in The Concord Saunterer 27 (2019): 42-67. Thoreau had a famous ability to find stone tools, like arrowheads, around Concord. In light of recent studies of his contributions to scientific fields like river hydrology, ecology, and the succession of forest trees, did Thoreau also […]