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!
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 […]
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, […]
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/