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  1. Institution Name:
    Cornell University
  2. Department Title:
    Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS); Department of Anthropology
  3. Faculty in Historical Archaeology:
    1. Baugher, Sherene (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook 1978; Professor, Anthropology and Landscape Architecture) historical archaeology, public archaeology, urban archaeology, class, identity, inequality, cemetery studies, museum studies, tourism, cultural landscapes, North America
    2. Cohen-Aponte, Ananda (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center 2012; Associate Professor, History of Art) visual cultures of colonialism, identity, cross-cultural exchange, material culture studies, art and social change, indigeneity, muralism, Andes
    3. Gleach, Frederic W. (Ph.D., Chicago 1992; Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, and Curator of the Anthropology Collections) historical anthropology, history of anthropology, material and visual culture, museum studies, tourism, Native North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba
    4. Jordan, Kurt A. (Ph.D., Columbia 2002; Associate Professor, Anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous Studies and Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies) historical archaeology of indigenous peoples, political economy, colonialism, cultural entanglement, and indigenous autonomy, North America, especially Haudenosaunee/Iroquois
    5. Khatchadourian, Lori (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008; Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies) materiality, imperialism, archaeology of the recent past, global heritage management, ethnography of heritage, southwest Asia, Soviet and post-Soviet Caucasus
  4. Other Related Faculty:
    1. Barrett, Caitlin (Ph.D., Yale University, 2009; Associate Professor, Classics) Classical archaeology, archaeology of religion and ritual, household archaeology, long-distance exchange, Egypt, Italy
    2. Fiskesjö, Magnus (Ph.D., Chicago 2000; Associate Professor, Anthropology) museum studies, global cultural heritage issues, borders and ethnic relations, Asia
    3. Gleason, Kathryn L. (D.Phil.,Oxford 1991; Professor, Landscape Architecture) landscape and garden archaeology, design and conservation of archaeological sites, landscape architectural history, heritage management, Roman Mediterranean, Jordan, Israel
    4. Henderson, John S. (Ph.D., Yale 1974; Professor, Anthropology) archaeology of complex societies, ethnohistory, writing systems, settlement patterns, ceramic analysis, heritage management, Mesoamerica
    5. Manning, Sturt W. (Ph.D., Cambridge 1995; Professor, Classics, and Director of the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology) classical archaeology, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, climate change, development of complex societies, Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
    6. Monroe, Christopher M. (Ph.D., Michigan, 2000; Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies) trade and intercultural relations, nautical archaeology, Mediterranean, Near East
    7. Russell, Nerissa (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 1993; Professor, Anthropology) zooarchaeology and bone tools, inequality, human-animal relationships, social and symbolic roles of animals and meat, European and Near Eastern Neolithic
    8. Smith, Adam T. (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996; Professor, Anthropology) materiality and politics, global heritage management, landscapes, subjectivity, archaeological theory, Caucasus
    9. Van Oyen, Astrid (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 2013; Assistant Professor, Classics) materiality, ceramic analysis, imperialism, craft production, storage, archaeological theory, Roman empire
    10. Velasco, Matthew C. (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2016; Assistant Professor, Anthropology) bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, ethnogenesis, inequality, imperialism, identity, Andes
  5. General Statement:
    The Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies offers a Master’s Degree; the Field of Anthropology offers a Ph.D. in anthropological archaeology for students who want to apply directly to a Ph.D. program. The MA Program in Archaeology at Cornell is designed to provide students with an intensive orientation to the field, appropriate to both students with BA degrees who have considerable experience in archaeology and those seeking to build a solid foundation for future work or study.  The program aims provide students the intellectual resources and institutional support necessary to prepare them for successful admissions to top tier PhD programs and for careers in the heritage sector. Cornell archaeology supports a diverse array of interests, ranging from material culture studies to public archaeology, historic preservation, and archaeological method and theory. Archaeology at Cornell is deeply committed to multidisciplinary studies. Faculty in Archaeology belong to the fields of Anthropology, Classics, History of Art, Landscape Architecture, Medieval Studies, and Near Eastern Studies. The program requires one year in full-time residence and a thesis. The Anthropology Ph.D. program is designed for those who wish to have a thorough grounding in the discipline of Anthropology, drawing on the substantial expertise in sociocultural anthropology, history, historic preservation, and Indigenous Studies available at Cornell. Resources available at Cornell include the Human and Animal Bone laboratory (HABlab); Landscapes and Objects Lab; dendrochronological laboratory; building materials conservation laboratory; digital imaging, mapping, remote sensing, and GIS facilities and data repositories; comparative zoological and botanical collections at the Museum of Vertebrates and Bailey Hortorium Herbarium; and an award-winning university library. Financial support is available for Ph.D. students in Anthropology and some Archaeology M.A. students on a competitive basis. The Hirsch Fund provides support for student fieldwork and research.
  6. For More Information Contact:
    Kurt Jordan, Department of Anthropology, 268 McGraw Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 USA; phone 607 255-3109; email: kj21@cornell.edu; Web page: CIAMS https://archaeology.cornell.edu/ Department of  Anthropology https://anthropology.cornell.edu/