Congratulations to Pinar Ozguner recipient of BIAA-RCAC Junior Resident Fellowship
Pinar Ozguner has been offered a British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)- Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) Junior Residential Fellowship at RCAC. Pinar will pursue the study of “Archaeological Entanglements: The People, and Politics of Archaeology in Turkey”.
Graduating senior Philip Cook receives award for writing excellence.
Cook’s paper was selected to receive the Alumni Association Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. A $500 prize will be presented to winners of the award at this year’s Class Day Ceremony on Saturday, May 19th at 3 p.m. in George Sherman Union’s Metcalf Hall. […]
Congratulations to Luke Pecoraro and Kathryn Ness they were selected to receive the student award funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
The ceremony will be held at the Castle.
Undergraduate major, Tory Sampson’s (CAS’15) interview with BU Today
Tory’s story is an amazing story. Here is her BU Today interview.
Alumna, Janet E. Kay (BA, 2010) published her undergraduate honors thesis.
Norse in Newfoundland: A Critical Examination of Archaeological Research at the Norse site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland by Janet E. Kay. ISBN 9781407309224. £21.00. 70 pages; illustrated throughout. BAR S2339 2012. Explorer Helge Ingstad set out in the 1960s to search for the much hypothesized and mythical Norse land of Vinland. Vinland, originally discovered […]
Congratulations to Ilaria Patania, Outstanding Teaching Fellow for Academic Year 2011-2012.
Ilaria was chosen by the department as the Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the Academic Year 2011-2012. This distinction shows that we value Ilaria’s important contributions to the teaching mission. The College of Arts and Sciences will hold a reception May 3 for the Teaching Fellow Award recipients. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Stephen Brighton (BU AR PhD 2005) who is now tenured Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Archaeology Convocation Ceremony, Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Department of Archaeology Bachelor of Arts Convocation Ceremony is Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 5:30 pm in the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. The PhD Hooding is Friday, May 18, 2012 at 5:30 pm in the George Sherman Union Metcalf Hall, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. For additional information […]
Inaugural Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology endowed in honor of Professor Emeritus Norman Hammond
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation has endowed a Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology at Boston University in honor of Professor Norman Hammond, whose research on the Maya civilization in Central America has been supported by the Foundation for more than a decade. The Inaugural Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology to be given […]
Jessica MacLean awarded AIA Site Preservation Award
Congratulations to Jessica. The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) awarded its most recent Site Preservation Grant to the Carr Plantation Archaeology Project on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The project, directed by Jessica Striebel MacLean of Boston University, will protect and raise awareness of the Carr Plantation—one of the few remaining European heritage sites […]