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2010

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (Ph.D. 2010)

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) Program at Stanford. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from Stanford in 2010, building on a masters degree in Public Archaeology from the University of South Florida and a bachelors degree in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College.Kathryn’s work has been published in Archaeological Dialogues, Archaeologies, and the volume Heritage and Globalisation (edited by Sophia Labadi and Colin Long, 2010). She is also co-editing a volume on Roman place-making and heritage for the Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series. She completed her dissertation thanks to a Mellon fellowship from the ACLS, and her work has been recognized by a number of awards, including Best Student Paper at the 2008 World Archaeological Congress. Currently Kathryn is developing projects on Islamic cultural property models, the links between heritage and democratization in North Africa and Spain, the transboundary World Heritage site of the Struve Geodetic Arc, and the heritage food movement. (Updated 03/11)

2009

Stacey Camp (Ph.D. 2009)

Dr. Stacey Camp is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Idaho. She received her B.A. in English and Comparative Literary Studies and Anthropology from Occidental College in 2001 and her Ph.D. from Stanford in 2009. Her research concerns the archaeology of immigrants living in the late 19th century and early 20th century Western United States. Her dissertation thesis, “Materializing Inequality: The Archaeology of Citizenship and Race in Early 20th Century Los Angeles,” examined the archaeology of Mexican immigrant railway workers living at Los Angeles’ Mount Lowe Resort and Railway. At present, she is studying Idaho’s Kooskia Internment Camp, a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp. More information on her project can be found here: http://www.uidaho.edu/class/kicap (Updated 03/11)

Sarah Levin-Richardson (Ph.D. 2009)

Currently a lecturer in the departments of Classics and Art History at the University of Washington in Seattle.  She has an article called “Modern Tourists, Ancient Sexualities: Looking at Looking in Pompeii’s Brothel and the Secret Cabinet” that will appear in the edited volume Pompeii in the Popular Imagination: From its Rediscovery to Today, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. (Updated 9/09)

2008

Margaret Butler (Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, 2008)

Margaret Butler is an assistant professor at Tulane University.  Her research includes ancient Macedon and Philip II, with a focus on ancient leadership, state formation, institutional change and ritual behavior. (Updated 03/11)

David Platt ( Ph.D. 2008)

Dissertation was titled A Cultural Studies Approach to Roman Public Libraries: Social Negotiation, Changing Spaces, and Euergetism.

Since then, I have continued to work for Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR).  I started in the Art & Architecture Library in November 2005 as Evening Supervisor and was promoted to Operations Manager in May 2007.  Most recently, my job was restructured to include the duties of Classics Bibliographer.  As Stanford's Classics Bibliographer, I principally oversee development of the Libraries' holdings of materials relating to the ancient Mediterranean, whether these books (and other media) deal with archaeology, history, or literature.  I am also responsible for a certain amount of "Bibliographic Instruction" (i.e. showing people how to get the most from the library resources at their disposal) and, as subject specialist, answering reference questions within my field.

SULAIR has proven, both during and since completing my doctoral work, to be a tremendously supportive environment.  Not only has my PhD allowed me to move to a professional position rapidly (without the traditional MLIS degree) but the department has enabled and encouraged me to pursue my own research.  For instance, this year, I was able to take professional leave to return to Britain for three weeks, where I am co-principal investigator of the Binchester Roman Fort Excavation along with Gary Devore, Richard Hingley, David Petts, and Michael Shanks. (Updated 9/09)

Ulrike Krotscheck (Ph.D. 2008)

Ulrike is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Evergreen State College. Ian Morris,Walter Scheidel, and Ian Hodder (Anthropology) advised her 2008 Stanford dissertation, "Scale, Structure, and Organization of Archaic Maritime Trade in the Western Mediterranean: the "pointe lequin 1A"." (Updated 03/11)

2007

Danielle Steen Fatkin (Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, 2007)

Danielle Steen Fatkin is a visiting assistant professor of history at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Her teaching interests include Roman archaeology and history, theory of archaeological and historical methods, Roman religions, especially Judaism, cultural heritage management, comparative study of empires, and gender studies. She is currently working on an essay titled "Power, Purity, and the Invention of the Hasmonean Bathing Tradition." (Updated 03/11)

Lidewijde de Jong (Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, 2007)

Since I finished my Ph.D. degree at Stanford in 2007, I have crossed the continent North to South. First to the Great White North, where I taught at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario as a visiting professor in Archaeology. Then last year, to the Old South and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was hired as Assistant Professor in Roman Archaeology in the Classics department. Currently, I am finishing an article on the Roman cemetery at Tyre (Lebanon), where I spent part of this summer. I am also working on the final publication of the excavations at Tell Sheikh Hasan in the Balikh Valley in Syria, which I co- directed between 2005 and 2007. At UNC, I teach courses on Roman archaeology, archaeological methods, ancient empires and ancient urbanization. This semester I am very excited about teaching a graduate course on the Archaeology of the Roman Province.  (Updated 9/09)

2005

Christopher Witmore ( Ph.D. 2005)

Christopher Witmore is an Assistant Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University.   After receiving his PhD in 2005, Chris joined the new Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.   At Brown, he worked on issues of landscape and time in the Greek Argolid and crafted new approaches to media and material culture in archaeology.  His work with media and material culture has focused on a range of questions from how archaeologists manifest qualities of the material world to how we might expand our range of articulation and expression in the discipline.  Articles dealing with these topics have appeared in Archaeological Dialogues, Archaeologies, the Journal of Material Culture, Norwegian Archaeology Review, Visual Anthropology Reviewand World Archaeology. (Updated 9/09)

Dan Contreras (Ph.D. 2005)

Dan begins in September as a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford's IHUM program, where he will teach Laws and Orders and World Archaeology and Global Heritage.  Meanwhile, he continues to work with Neil Brodie on using satellite imagery to quantify looting damage, and to conduct fieldwork in Peru.  In the field, he continues to be involved with John Rick's project at Chavín de Huántar and is also busy developing a project at the Quispisisa obsidian source in Ayacucho.  Recent publications include "Implications of the Fluvial History of the Wacheqsa River for Hydrologic Engineering and Water Use at Chavín de Huántar, Peru," in Geoarchaeology (with David Keefer) and "Reconstructing landscape at Chavı´n de Hua´ ntar, Peru´ : A GIS-based approach," in the Journal of Archaeological Science. (Updated 9/09)

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