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Fanya BecksFanya received her BA in Anthropology with a minor in Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in integrating the perspectives of Native American Studies into her Archaeological research. Research interests most pertinent to Fanya include Native American Heritage and Archaeology, the formation and legitimization of identity, intellectual property issues of indigenous peoples, and the uses of space in archaeological contexts. Her undergraduate research has centered on shell bead and lithic production at Coast Miwok and Muwekma Ohlone sites in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. As a Stanford Ph.D. student Fanya plans to pursue collaborative and Community Based Participatory Research projects with Native Californian Peoples.

Michael is a Ph.D. student working with Gail Mahood in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences.  His primary research interests are in the archaeometric analysis of lithic archaeological materials and in the statistical analysis of geochemical data for provenance studies.  Michael has previously worked on projects involving SEM- and XRD-based analyses of greenstone pendants from the Archaic period mortuary pond at Little Salt Spring (8SO18) in southwest Florida and XRF trace element analyses of pegmatitic muscovite artifacts from the Mississippian period mounds at Etowah (9BR1) in northwest Georgia.  He received his B.S. in Geological Sciences with minors in Anthropology and Chemistry from the University of Miami (2009), and his M.S. in Geology from the University of Georgia (2011).

Ignacio CancinoIgnacio is interested in the agricultural history of irrigation societies in Coastal Peru. He combines readings in archaeology with his work as a sociologist. He spent the last five years doing research on and working with living irrigation societies in Northern and Central Coastal Peru. Now, his research interests involve the irrigation and the connections between irrigation, power, and complexity in ancient Andean Coastal societies.

Brian CoddingBrian Codding's research interests include human behavioral ecology, ethnoarchaeology, spatial analysis, zooarchaeology and stable isotope ecology. He is involved with research projects in coastal California and Western Australia.

Megan DanielsMegan completed her B.A. in archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2005, after which she worked as an archaeologist in the National Parks and Native Sites program for Parks Canada. She subsequently departed in 2006 for the Far East, where she taught English in both China and Vietnam, before returning in 2007 to complete a M.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. Her interests include the intersections of religion, economy and culture contact across all periods, but particularly within the Mediterranean Iron Age. Other interests include imperialism, urbanization and the cultures of Central Asia in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Megan has participated on excavations and laboratory work in Canada, Bermuda and Greece (Crete, Kythera, Lefkandi and the Athenian Agora).

Thea DeArmondThea is a graduate student on the archaeology track. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in College of Letters and in Archaeology in 2009 and completed the University of Pennsylvania's post-bacc program in Classics in 2010. In the summer of 2010, she participated in the excavation of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mount Lykaion. Her research interests include public archaeology and cultural heritage management, as well as the relationship between texts and material culture. She is also interested in early Greek heroic cult, particularly in Lakonia.

Marguerite DeLoneyMarguerite is a graduate student in the archaeology track with a desire to study the archaeological record of material culture in a way that would impact thinking about both past and present realities.  She is interested in the study of material culture to trace the development of present day identities held by descendant multi-ethnic communities emerging from violent colonial legacies, particularly in the Caribbean mainland of Latin America .  She hopes to investigate questions like, how can the individual and group identities of people forcibly brought together in colonial contexts be extricated through archaeology, and how would a recognition of those identities aid us in understanding how present peoples acknowledge and interact with their identities today?  Marguerite's interest in archaeology began in high school when she attended her first field school in South Texas.  She continued to pursue her study of archaeology at Brown University, where she received her B.A. in Anthropology, researching Native cultural continuity and change within the mission complexes on the Texas frontier of New Spain.
 

Lindsay DerLindsay is theoretically concerned with social inequality and power relations, and in particular, the social archaeology of trade. Additional interests include archaeology and ethics, public archaeology, religion/ritual/cults and archaeological survey. Lindsay has previously carried out fieldwork at Alexandria Troas, Turkey and with the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project (BVAR) at the site of Baking Pot, Belize. She received her BA in Anthropology, Minor in Latin at the University of British Columbia and has a diploma in 3D Animation and Special Effects from Vancouver Film School.

Sebastian De VivoSebastian De Vivo is a graduate student in the Classical Archaeology track. His dissertation focuses upon the memory of battle in Ancient Greece, from the sixth through the fourth centuries B.C.E., particularly material practices of commemoration and how these construct narrative memories of traumatic experiences. His interests also include monumentality and urbanism, anthropological theory, Goya, Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar. He received his MA from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Stanford, and his BA in Liberal Studies and Classics from California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests include the archaeology of war and trauma in the ancient Greek world, intersections of visual culture and moral ideals, and the reception of classics in Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar.

Rachel EngmannRachel Engmann received her BA in anthropology and MA in anthropology, both from Columbia University. Before coming to Stanford, she worked for UNESCO in France and West Africa. Whilst at Stanford, she will focus on heritage and material culture in West Africa, with a concentration on Ghana. Her primary concern is the relationship between objects and the societies that produce or utilize them. In particular, Rachel is interested in the historical, political, cultural and social systems in which objects are employed in the construction of identity, social formations and culture. Rachel is also interested in other associated issues of the African continent such as the Diaspora, identity politics, slavery and tourism.

Maria EscallonMaria Fernanda comes to Stanford from Bogotá, Colombia where she earned a B.A in Anthropology and a Master of Arts in Archaeology from the Universidad de Los Andes. She has worked in sustainable development and heritage issues for non-governmental organizations and Colombian public entities such as the Ministry and the Secretary of Culture. She hopes to examine cultural heritage discourses and practices in Colombia and Brazil and is interested in the intersections between heritage, cultural diversity, public policy making and development. Topics of primary interest include intangible heritage, identity, nationalism, heritage ethics, tourism and the political uses of memory.

Corisande FenwickCorisande’s research looks at state and empire formation in Late Antique North Africa. Her dissertation brings together the material and textual evidence from the late Roman to the early Medieval period to examine the ways in which different social, ethnic and religious groups defined themselves, and critically the ways these groups related to each other and to larger political entities like the Roman Empire and Caliphate. Her other research interests include funerary archaeology, the politics of archaeology and anthropology in North Africa and postcolonial theory. She is also working towards an MA in Ancient History in the Department of Classics. Prior to her arrival at Stanford, Corisande studied at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL where she earned a BA in Archaeology, Classics and Classical Art. She has carried out archaeological fieldwork on Roman and medieval sites in the UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, and Israel and is currently supervising the excavations of the medieval cemetery of San Pietro di Villamagna in Italy. This year she is a SSRC-IDRF fellow and will spend her time conducting a field survey in Morocco and archival research in Europe.

Francesca FernandiniI am an archaeologist graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and I am focused on the formation and development of complex societies in the Andes. My main interest is to understand the social and political aspects of these societies and the role ideology plays in the creation of social identities.I consider that my research questions should be centered in center/periphery relations in crucial contact areas which would allow an understanding of settlement patterns, ideology expansion and the materialization of contact.

Helen HumanHelen's work is situated in Turkey and investigates the commodification of heritage resources and the development and implementation of cultural heritage conventions, laws, and policies. Helen’s additional interests include the anthropologies of museums and collecting, nationalism and identity, and cosmopolitanism. Helen received her B.A. in anthropology from Harvard University in 2006. She also has archaeological field experience in North and South America and Southeastern Europe and has worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Organization of American States, and in cultural resource management.

Alexandra Celia KellyAlexandra is a 4th-year doctoral candidate in Anthropology studying the historical archaeology of the 19th-century ivory trade between East Africa and the West (UK/New England). Through an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing archaeology and historical anthropology, Alexandra's research examines how East African consumerism complicates simplistic renderings of 19th-century imperialism and global exchange. She is interested in articulating an archaeology of colonialism that views circulation and consumer practices as productive in order to allow scholars to better theorize Western imperialism and early globalization as a multi-directional projects that acknowledge the agency, influence and desires of non-Western subjects, as well as the processes through which capitalist and imperial landscapes and subjects are constituted and activated. This project, exploring the political, economic and symbolic dimensions of the 19th-century ivory trade will nuance theories of globalization, imperialism and culture contact, and ultimately, foreground contemporary heritage politics in East Africa. Alexandra received a BA in Anthropology and MA in Social Sciences both from the University of Chicago.

Kate is a second year graduate student in classics and archaeology.  She received her BA in archaeology and history from Tufts University in 2006.  After graduating from Tufts, Kate took two years off from academia and moved to New York City, where she worked for an art gallery.  She has conducted field work in Italy at the Poggio Civitate Field School, where she has been the site supervisor from 2007-2009. Her research interests include Etruscan archaeology, Greek archaeology, Greek colonization, and cultural heritage.

Anja Krieger

Anja is a grad student in the Classical Archaeology track.She  received her M.A. from the University of Heidelberg, after having studied at the University of Freiburg and the Università degli Studi di Perugia.She is especially interested in seafaring and maritime trade, in combination with recent research on networks and cultural exchange across the Mediterranean with the focus on Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece.Her other interests include Ancient History, Greek literature, especially Homer, and Greek Epigraphy. She has taken part in exacavations in Austria and Italy.

Claudia LiuzzaMy studies focused on archaeological methodology and ancient history with a four-year degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and a dissertation in Egyptology at the University of Pisa. My training and research activities were particularly aimed at acquiring multidisciplinary skills through international study experiences in India, UK, Syria, Egypt, China and Belgium. I am particularly interested by the issues of cultural diversity, the complexity of human communication and human behaviors, in relation with interdisciplinary topics such as a sense of heritage, heritage interpretation and cultural consciousness in different contexts of contemporary and ancient societies.

Rita LomioRita received her B.A. in Classics from Stanford University, with a minor in Computer Science.  She has participated in excavations in Monte Polizzo, Sicily; Rome, Italy; and San Francisco, California.  After receiving her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, Rita clerked for the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Following her clerkship, Rita was an associate with the Supreme Court & Appellate Practice Group of Mayer Brown LLP.

Allison MickelAllison looks for the characters, plots, and thematic motifs in archaeology. She is interested in the way archaeologists write archaeology, and in investigating what role this process and this product plays in the way archaeological interpretations are created.  She is especially interested in fiction as a method of archaeological representation that is most polyphonic, epistemologically transparent, and relatable for the diverse audiences to which archaeology caters.  Her work is focused on archaeology in the Middle East and Africa.  She completed her B.A. in Anthropology at the College of William & Mary by writing a fictionalized narrative of an excavation season at a site in the Wadi Araba in Jordan.

Lindsay MontgomeryLindsay received her BA in Anthropology and Human Rights from Columbia University. Her research interests include Native American cultural heritage, ethics, environmental justice, and the politics of identity. As a PhD student on the archaeology track, Lindsay plans to pursue an integrated approach to the anthropological engagement with Native American material culture, particularly in the Southwest United States. Specifically, she hopes to work with Native people on a politically and socially relevant level by applying Native American law and political ecology to archeology.

Sarah MurraySarah received her BA in Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College in 2004. After a year spent working at bars in Europe, she moved to Knoxville to become a GIS technician and field archaeologist for the University of Tennessee's Archaeological Research Lab . In 2006-7 she completed the Post-Baccalaureate program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has conducted fieldwork in the Southeastern USA, Pompeii, the Nemea Valley, the eastern Corinthia, and East Lokris.

Adrian MyersAdrian is a historical archaeologist primarily studying the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on military conflict, internment, and surveillance. His interests include the First and Second World Wars, the Global War on Terror, Prisoners of War, criminal incarceration, archaeological ethics, and satellite remote sensing. His central PhD research project is on the Whitewater PoW Camp, a Second World War internment camp that held German soldiers in Manitoba, Canada. Adrian’s publications are available here.

Adam Joseph NazaroffAdam’s current research seeks to explore social constructions of the mineralogical world through the utilization of archaeological provenance research, phenomenology, and semiotics. By using archaeological sourcing studies to identify probable locations of material acquisition, he proposes that it is possible to further understand the experiences of past populations concerning the mineral world—how the location and choice of artifact material sources may aid in the development of identity and heritage, and how the control and distribution of materials from specific sources influences social relationships in the past and the present. Adam is interested in further exploring these ideas in the context of Anatolian prehistory, specifically by observing the procurement and use of chert at archaeological sites such as Catalhoyuk. Adam’s previous research has focused on obsidian procurement during the Early Classic Maya period (A.D. 250 - 600) in southern Belize, as well as the application of Portable XRF technology to archaeological and paleoclimate research. He received his B.A. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.A. in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Guido PezzarossiI am interested in pursuing an archaeology of the entanglements of capitalism and colonialism. I hope to attempt this through an exploration of the disparate strategies employed by Native people to engage and navigate the colonial structures of the emerging capitalist world. I have begun to investigate some of these issues in my M.A. research through an archaeological study of an 18th and 19th century Nipmuc household located in central Massachusetts. At Stanford, I hope to further explore the global character of these issues by shifting the regional focus of my research. I was born in Guatemala but grew up in Chicago. I received my B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my M.A. in Historical Archaeology from UMass-Boston.

Joshua SamuelsJoshua's research investigates the rural borghi constructed by Italy's fascist government in Sicily between the mid-1930s and early-1940s, using an archaeological appreciation of colonial landscapes and ambivalent heritage to understand how Sicilian farmers negotiated a prescribed modernity, and how the material traces of this past are re-contextualized today. He received his BA from Stanford's Department of Anthropology in 2001, and his MSc in Archaeomaterials from the University of Sheffield in 2004.

Ian Roderick SimpsonMy doctoral research examines the relationship between market and religion. I am concerned with how material culture and commercial practices shape religion at the same time as religious groups appropriate market economy, and how religious groups interact with and define themselves in relation to other groups through the market. My PhD project focuses on the archaeology of early Muslim urban communities through field research in Jordan. Using archival and ethnographic research, I am also examining labor and commercialization in the 18-19th century in the Arab Gulf States and their use of heritage practices in relation to ethnic difference, the environment, and commerce.

My interests revolve around bioarchaeology, Roman non-elites, and landscape.  These topics were the focus of my thesis and coursework at the University of Arizona, where I recently (2011) completed a Masters in Classics and a GIS certificate.  Previous to this I completed a Classics Post-Baccalaureate at the University of  Pennsylvania (2009) and majored in Anthropology, Classics, and Latin, at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (2007). I was introduced to archaeology by working for four years as an archaeological technician at the Midwest Archaeological Center of the National Park Service, and have since worked for the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology in the Archaeological Mapping Lab, and the Arizona State Museum in Archaeological Collections.  I have done field work in Greece, Turkey, Mexico, and the United States (Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, Arkansas and Arizona).

Tim WilcoxI would like to look at the proto-historic period (1500-1750) of the Navajo or Dine’, an Athabaskan tribe of the Four Corners area. Specifically, the area in the San Juan River Valley known as Dinetah or the Navajo homeland. The period is characterized proliferation Navajo material culture in the Dinetah region. Prior to this period, the distinctions between Navajo and Apache tribes, both Athabaskan speaking tribes, were less distinct. How did the two tribes become distinct and how did their interactions with Puebloan people, other Native groups and newly arrived Spanish colonists shape their identity.

Bryn WilliamsBryn is interested in archaeologically exploring the relationship between built urban landscapes and the individuals who inhabited those landscapes. He is particularly focused on how the built landscape structured “the self.” Bryn is also interested in exploring pedagogical issues surrounding the intersection between archaeology and “the public.” Bryn was born in the San Francisco area, and received his B.A in anthropology from UC Berkeley.

Lauren YappLauren is a first-year Ph.D candidate in the Archaeology track. Her research is broadly concerned with the intersection of heritage, tourism, memory, and urban landscapes. She is particularly interested in their overlap within the context of explicit public reconciliation projects, as pursued by communities addressing local and national histories of division, shame, or violence. Prior to studying at Stanford, Lauren received a B.A. summa cum laude in History with a Secondary Field in Archaeology from Harvard in 2009, and an M.Phil with Distinction in Archaeology with a focus in Archaeological Heritage and Museums from Cambridge in 2010. Dissertation projects for these degrees have led her to conduct fieldwork in Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and on the island on St. Kilda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Scotland. Continuing two positions she took up in 2010 upon returning to her native Bay Area, Lauren also pursues interests in heritage management and public education by working as a Digitization Lab Assistant at Stanford’s Special Collections and University Archives and as a museum volunteer for the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts in Palo Alto.

Hao Zhao

I am a graduate student in East Asian Languages and Cultures on the archaeology track. I received my M.A. in 2011 and B.A. in 2008 in archaeology both from Peking University (Beijing). My M.A. research centered on the sacrificial remains of Eastern Zhou(ca.800-200B.C), including jades, bronze and faunal remains of that period. My research in Stanford mainly looks at the emergence, maintenance, adjustment and collapse of early complex society during the bronze age of China, and investigates the correlations between political and economic system by analyzing ritual practice, settlement patterns and mortuary patterns. Additional interests include the bronze casting techniques as well as GIS in archaeology.