Alum, Emory Holland (CAS’12) job and education …
Alum, Emory Holland (CAS’12) update on career and education.
Michael Hamilton retires
Michael worked at BU for 33 years. He started off in the Department of History of Art & Architecture (what was then the Department of Art History) and then joined Archaeology at the request of James Wiseman, founder of the Department of Archaeology and Chair at the time. Michael’s title was Lab Coordinator and Photographer […]
Alum, Astrid Runggaldier (GRS’09) promoted to Associate Professor.
Alum, Astrid Runggaldier (GRS’09), has been honored at UT Austin was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded their distinguish award.
Alumnus Adam DiBattista (CAS’14) receives PhD, postdoctoral position
Adam DiBattista (CAS ’14) just completed his PhD, titled “The Transformation of Animal Materials in Early Greece,” at UCLA. Adam will join the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University in the fall as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Congratulations, Adam!
David Carballo promoted to Professor
David Carballo has been promoted to full Professor. Congratulations David!
Alumna Carol Stein re-appointed Director of Publications at ASCSA
Alumna Carol Stein, recipient of an MA in Archaeology in 2015, has been re-appointed to the position of Director of Publications at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Congratulations Carol!
David Walton (GRS’17) tenure and promotion
Dave Walton awarded tenure and Assistant Professor promotion at the Lake-Sumter College in Florida. David received his PhD from Boston University Archaeology Program May 2017. His dissertation was on “The Production, Consumption, and Function of Stone Tools in Prehispanic Central Mexico: a Comparative Study of Households Spanning the Formative to Postclassic Period”. We are so […]
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 […]
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. […]
David Carballo named Assistant Provost for General Education
“One of the nation’s preeminent scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico, David Carballo has been known to teach students such topics as ancient tool-making with rocks. Now he’s turning his scholarly gaze forward, having been tapped by BU to oversee the future of one of its major classroom […]