Maria Codlin, Kathleen Forste, and Natalie Susmann recipients of a GRAF
Congratulations to Maria Codlin, Kathleen Forste and Natalie Susmann recipients of the Short Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship to support their travel and research. Maria’s research takes her to Mexico, Kathleen to Israel, Natalie to Greece.
Ilaria Patania and Juan Vidal obtain fieldwork permit for their project in Megara Hyblaea, Italy
Ilaria Patania and Juan Vidal have recently obtained a fieldwork permit for the project they have spent the last 12 months hard-at-work devising, the Megara Hyblaea Cultural Heritage Project. The first field season is set to start in September. We can’t stress enough how indebted we are to the permit-granting agencies for their support and for their belief in […]
Aarti Arora and Elizabeth Hannigan awarded BUCH Awards
Congratulations to Aarti Arora and Elizabeth Hannigan on receiving student awards funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities. The competition was keen and their success an impressive accomplishment. Please join Archaeology faculty and staff in congratulating Arora and Elizabeth.
Professor Berlin’s LCP Project receives a $55,000 grant
LCP got some good news this week! We’ll be receiving $55,000 over the next two years from the Austrian FWF, which is the country’s Science Fund (sort of the equivalent of our NSF) in conjunction with their new Open Research Data Project. We are partners with the Austrian Archaeological Institute in this grant, which will fund not […]
Justin Holcomb awarded two-year Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Justin Holcomb! He has been awarded a two-year Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece for his project “Towards a Chronostratigraphic Framework of the Aegean Paleolithic: A Geoarchaeological Approach.”
Congratulations to Mary Clarke
Congratulations to Mary Clarke. Her grant application to the Rust Foundation was approved. The award will support her research project project on “Production of Stone and State: The Intersection of Ancient Maya Domestic and Institutional Economies”.
We are pleased to announce that the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation will increase the endowment for the annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology with a gift of $50,000.
This donation is in acknowledgment of the success of the lecture series and the Department of Archaeology’s breadth of scholarship in teaching and research. The Sackler Foundation generously endowed an annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology in 2010 in honor of Emeritus Professor Norman Hammond. These lectures alternate between the archaeology of the New and Old […]
Mary Clarke recipient of a GRAF
Congratulations to Mary Clarke, recipient of the GRS Long Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship to support her travel and dissertation research in Guatemala.
David Carballo awarded tenure and receives promotion
David Carballo has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. CONGRATULATIONS!
Archaeology students awarded Boston University Humanities Foundation Fellowship
Congratulations to Jade Luiz, Laura Masur and Emily Johnson! They were awarded Boston University Humanities Foundation fellowships for 2015/16 in recognition of their outstanding work in the humanities.