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, […]
Mary Beaudry gave the keynote address at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
The Society for Historical Archaeology’s 2020 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology was held in Boston January 8-11, 2020. According to their Conference Preliminary Program, “This year marks the anniversary of many revolutionary events in history, including the 400th anniversary of the founding of nearby Plimoth Plantation, the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, and […]
Sara Belkin (GRS’18) the journal manager for Geoarchaeology at Wiley Publishing!
Sara, who earned a PhD in Archaeology in 2018, will be working with the Editors-in-Chief to publish the journal Geoarchaeology. She is excited that her day-to-day work will include archaeology again. Sara said, “I really wouldn’t have been able to be so successful at Wiley without BU Archaeology and all the opportunities and things I […]
Anna Goldfield (GRS’17) compilation of articles about Neanderthals
Anna has been writing for Sapiens.org, an online anthropology journal, and has created a project. An interactive, clickable Neanderthal, where each body part is linked to an article she wrote focused on that part of the anatomy, Neanderthal behavior, and how we know what we know about our closest ancient relatives. The link is here: https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-anatomy/
John Marston and Emily Johnson (CAS’17) publish article in Journal of Archaeological Sciences
Alumna Emily Johnson (CAS’17) publishes research based on her BU undergraduate honors thesis, which received the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2017, under the supervision of her advisor and co-author of the article, Professor John (Mac) Marston. Click here for the article Abstract: […]
Akin Ogundiran (GRS’00) named Chancellor’s Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Professor Ogundiran has always been as exceptional as he was promising. He was a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University where he bagged BA in Archaeology (First Class Honors) in 1988. This is where and when our interactions began, and that was where we sensed he was a student who would be greater than his teachers. […]
Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) welcomed by Livepool!
Sydney is at Liverpool getting her MA on a Fulbright. Read University of Liverpool Bio here, https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/blog/2019posts/fulbright-scholar/
Joe Bagley (CAS’06) on Bostonia
“It’s armchair archaeology,” Bagley says, sitting at the Boston City Archaeology Lab in West Roxbury. The lab is tucked away off the Jamaicaway, and inside, the ever-approachable and enthusiastic Bagley will show you a large room neatly stacked with acid-free boxes. Inside are relics from digs Bagley and his predecessors have unearthed, like pottery and […]
Photos of Archaeology Program Open House – September 20th
Learn about BU’s Archaeology Program with hands-on activities, including tours of the Environmental Archaeological Laboratory (Room 348) to see how archaeologists study ancient climate change and diets through the study of plant remains (Paleoethnobotany), and a visit to Flintknapping and Wine (Room 253) to make primitive stone tools, the civilized way. Visit the Zooarchaeology Laboratory […]
Luke Pecoraro (GRS’15) New Director of Curatorial Services
Luke on May 10th became the new Director of Curatorial Services at Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Additional information https://www.historyisfun.org/news/former-mount-vernon-archaeology-director-joins-jamestown-yorktown-foundation-as-new-director-of-curatorial-services/.