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STANFORD UNIVERSITY

  1. Institution Name:
    Stanford University
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Anthropology
  3. Faculty in Historical Archaeology:
    1. Lynn Meskell (Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D. Cambridge 1997): South Africa, Egypt, social theory, materiality, heritage, ethics, ethnography, Çatalhöyük figurines.
    2. Barbara Voss (Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D. Berkeley 2002): Historical archaeology of North America, Spanish colonization, Overseas Chinese archaeology, gender and sexuality, heritage and cultural resource management, ceramics, architecture.
    3. Michael Wilcox (Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D. Harvard 2001): Postcolonial archaeology, ethnic identity and conflict, Native American archaeology, ethics.
  4. Other Related Faculty/Staff:
    1. Giovanna Ceserani (Assistant Professor, Classics): History of archaeology and of classics, intellectual history, ancient Greeks in South Italy.
    2. David DeGusta (Assistant Professor, Anthropology): Human osteology, bioarchaeology, human evolution, fauna, Africa.
    3. Ian Hodder (Professor, Anthropology): Archaeological theory, Çatalhöyük, European prehistory, material culture, long-term social and cultural change.
    4. Laura Jones (Campus Archaeology): California, French Polynesia, cultural resource law, museum studies.
    5. Richard Klein (Professor, Anthropology): Human evolution, modern human origins, stone age prehistory, Ysterfontein middle stone age site, southern Africa, zooarchaeology.
    6. Gail Mahood (Professor, Geological and Environmental Sciences): Volcanology; geoarchaeology; obsidian and stone provenance, tephrachronology.
    7. Ian Morris (Professor, Classics): Mediterranean, iron age, economics, equality, colonialism, long-term history.
    8. John Rick (Associate Professor, Anthropology): prehistoric archaeology, stone tool studies, analytical methodology, animal domestication, Latin America, Southwestern U.S.
    9. Ian Robertson (Assistant Professor, Anthropology): Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan, complex/urban societies, statistical methods, ceramic and lithic analysis.
    10. Michael Shanks (Professor, Classics): Design history, urbanism, Greek & Roman antiquity, new media, contemporary art and archaeology.
    11. Jennifer Trimble (Assistant Professor, Classics): Roman Empire, visual culture, gender, urbanism, mapping and representation.
  5. General Statement:
    The Department of Anthropology at Stanford University offers historical archaeologists the opportunity to pursue graduate research leading to the M.A. or the Ph.D. degree. Faculty members in the Department of Anthropology specializing in historical archaeology engage in field and laboratory projects with an emphasis on urbanism, colonialism/post-colonialism, heritage, racialization, gender, and sexuality. Archaeologists working in the Department of Anthropology collaborate with scholars from multiple departments through the interdisciplinary Stanford Archaeology Center. In addition to housing laboratory and office space for students, the Stanford Archaeology Center sponsors workshops, lecture series, conferences, and provides a collegial atmosphere for creating links between Anthropology and Classics, as well as between other participating schools and departments from Earth Sciences to Art History. Indeed, the Center is situated so as to generally enhance interactions at Stanford between the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. It aims to facilitate and encourage innovative collaborative research that has a global reach. Although archaeology at Stanford covers a wide range of areas and topics, it is important to stress that graduate students are admitted to the Archaeology Program through the affiliate departments, from which they will ultimately receive their PhD degree (usually Anthropology, Classics, or Geological and Environmental Sciences). For further information about specific programs, please contact the relevant department.
  6. For More Information Contact:
    For the Stanford Archaeology Center: http://archaeology.stanford.edu/. For the Department of Anthropology, anthropology.stanford.edu, Shelly Coughlan, Student Program Coordinator, Bldg 50, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-2034 phone: (650) 723-4641, e-mail: selleck@stanford.edu. For Classics: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/home/index.html, Alicia Sanchez, Student Services and Admissions, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-2080.