I spent two, busy days at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting last week. It was great to catch up with old friends and spend some time surveying both recent trends in our field and the state of academic conference. 1. Ban Archaeological Site Reports as Conference Papers. I enjoyed most of the… Read More →
It’s day two of the Digital Archaeology Practice Workshop convened by Eric Poehler at the University of Massachusetts and we’re listening to discussions of databases, tools, and techniques at the University of Massachusetts and anticipating conversations about practice and theory later today. Follow along with our Twitter hash tag #DAPW or (better yet) watch and… Read More →
Tomorrow I head off to the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. You can check out the full program here (.pdf). Our panel is at 8:20 AM on Friday morning: 5C City of Gold: Archaeological excavations at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus Theme: This session details the exhibition, City of Gold: Tomb and Temple… Read More →
This week the team from the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project is presenting a paper and the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The paper presents some of our most recent research including preliminary observations on our field work in summer 2012. The paper is a bit of an awkward hybrid bringing together a… Read More →
In May, I am going to a conference on the topic of monumentality in archaeology. When invited, I fired off a rather superficial abstract that talked about how Early Christian church architecture in Greece both used existing, earlier forms of urban and domestic architecture to communicate the new status of the Christian religious elite, but… Read More →
Sometime in the past couple of months a Special Edition of the Bolletino di Archeologia On Line appeared with a lightly edited copy of a paper we prepared for the International Congress of Classical Archaeology in 2008. The paper is titled “Trade and Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Model from Cyprus” and considers the… Read More →
The new semester begins tonight at 5 pm (or something). This is my first semester with tenure which I officially received on August 15. It felt a lot like my team winning the World Series (which I have experienced) or the Super Bowl. I woke up the next day expecting things to be or feel… Read More →
The scholarly process can be a source mystery for students and the general public. Even I occasionally wonder how my peers transform ideas into provocative and sophisticated final products. Part of the goal of this blog was to make my scholarly process a bit more transparent. Typically my ideas begin as blog posts, I develop… Read More →
One of the great perks of the Graduate School’s Scholarly Forum here on campus is that you get to see so many academic posters. As some of you may know, the academic poster is the new conference paper. While commonplace in the social and applied sciences, the post has made significant inroads into the humanities… Read More →
