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Archaeology

Meghan Gewerth is currently a junior with a concentration on New World archaeology. She has participated in field schools in Chavin de Huantar, Peru and Binchester Roman Fort, England.  She is a research assistant on the Market Street Chinatown Project, which works with materials from San Jose’s historic Chinatown. She is an editor for the Problematics undergraduate anthropology journal at Stanford.  She is also interested in museum studies and public archaeology; she plans to study these further, including through a study abroad program at Oxford University.

Archaeology & Religious Studies

Alexandra Larrave is a current senior majoring in Archaeology and Religious Studies, with a minor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Within the Archaeology major, she is focusing on issues of heritage within modern society. While working on a dig in Jordan, she conducted research on the government's use of archaeological sites to promote national identity. Alexandra is currently writing an honors thesis in Religious Studies, concentrating on the medieval Christian use of relics as physical connections to the divine. She spent last summer interning at Sotheby's in the Latin American Art Department, learning about the art market and the current value of material objects.

Archaeology & Classics

Kelly Nguyen is a senior double majoring in archaeology (with a concentration on the Mediterranean) and classics (with a concentration in ancient Greek and Latin). She has participated in field schools in Turkey, England, Jordan, and Italy, and has studied abroad at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (ICCS). Currently, Kelly serves as the editor-in-chief of Stanford University's undergraduate anthropology publication, Problematics, and is an editor of the new classics undergraduate journal, Aisthesis. She is working on her senior honors thesis, which explores how different social groups within the ancient cities of Aphrodisias and Xanthos experienced the Roman imperial cult. Through the examination of civic centers, epigraphy, and religious festivals, Kelly hopes to reconstruct the interaction between the Roman imperial cult and the non-elites, assessing to what extent the imperial cult enabled or limited social mobility. 

Archaeology

Archaeology

Although technically an Anthropology major with a concentration in Archaeology & Heritage, Elizabeth (now a junior) spends most of the school year at the Archaeology Center and her summers excavating in Guatemala, Peru, and England. This past summer, she traveled to the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and to Çatalhöyük, Turkey, where she began researching the relationship between archaeology, NGOs, and sustainable development. Her goal is to better understand the origins, implementation, and effects of heritage management plans on archaeologist-philanthropist-community member relationships, the intellectual products of fieldwork, and socioeconomic dynamics in the communities surrounding cultural heritage sites.

Sadie WeberArchaeology

I am senior majoring in Archaeology, and my interests currently lie in studying how people interact with their landscape and environment with regards to the acquisition, production, and consumption of food. I am particularly interested in looking at regions where plant and animal domestication occurred and the extent to which domesticates and non-domesticates were utilized. Through this, I aim to answer questions about settlement patterns and subsistence practices. Because of the Stanford Archaeology Center, I have been able to work in Chavín de Huántar in Peru, el Hemmeh in Jordan, and Çatalhöyük in Turkey and have conducted my own research projects in Jordan and Peru.