Harvard University Activities

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

Anthropology 97x: Sophomore Tutorial in Archaeology (Spring 2010)

Anthropology 1010: Introduction to Archaeology (Fall 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2012 with R. Flad, Fall 2006 with N. Tuross, Fall 2009 and 2013 with M. Liebmann)

Anthropology 1045: Ancient Settlement Systems (Spring 2007)

Anthropology 1155: Before Baghdad: Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia (Spring 2009)

Anthropology 1150: Ancient Landscapes (Fall 2009, Spring 2014)

Ancient Near East 155r: Ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeology and Texts (Spring 2012 with P. Steinkeller)

Undergraduate Senior Theses Supervised:

Chase, Adrian, “Beyond Elite Control: Water Management at Caracol, Belize” (Anthropology, Spring 2012)

Pritchett, Allyson, “Ancient Suburbia? A GIS Analysis of Tiwanaku Settlement Patterns” (Applied Mathematics, Spring 2007)

Graduate Courses Taught:

Anthropology 2020: GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (formerly Anthropology 1065; Spring 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014)

Anthropology 2063: Ancient Landscapes (Spring 2006, Fall 2009)

Anthropology 2065: Complex Societies of Northern Mesopotamia (Spring 2008)

Anthropology 3000: Reading Course on the Archaeology of Anatolia (Fall 2008)

Graduate Student Advisory Committees:

Caramanica, Ari

Clindaniel, Jonathan

Rose, Kate

PhD Dissertations Supervised:

Michele Koons (Anthropology), “Licapa II: Examining Moche Socio-Political Organization from a Mid-Sized Center in the Chicama Valley, Peru,” Summer 2012 (committee member).  Currently Post-Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology, Denver Museum of Natural History.

Emily Hammer (Anthropology), “Local Spatial Systems of Nomadic Pastoral Land-use in Southeastern Turkey,” Spring 2012 (Committee Chair).  Currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.

James Osborne (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), “Power and Space in an Iron Age Kingdom: Spatial Analysis and Authority in the Iron II Kingdom of Patina,” Spring 2011 (committee member).  Currently Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Adam Aja (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), “Philistine Domestic Architecture of the Early Iron Age,” Fall 2009 (committee member).  Currently Assistant Curator, Harvard Semitic Museum.

Seong Hyun Park (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), “Ashkelon in Iron Age IIB: Pottery and Stratigraphy in the Assessment of Its Settlement and Culture,” Fall 2009 (committee member).  Currently Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

PhD Dissertation Committees:

Karim Alizadeh (Anthropology), “Social Inequality at Ravaz, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Iranian Azerbaijan.”

Nathaniel Erb-Satullo (Anthropology), “The Rise of Iron in the Land of the Golden Fleece: Metal Production in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Colchis.”

Price, Max (Anthropology), “Pigs and Complexity: The Evolution of Swine Husbandry Practices in Northern Mesopotamia from the Late Neolithic through the Early Bronze Age (ca. 6500-2100 cal. BC).”

Ramadan, Shilan (University of Paris)

Soroush, Mehrnoush (NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World), “Irrigated landscapes and Political Dynamics in Khuzistan: A landscape Study of the Miān-āb Plain (Iran).”

Post-Doctoral Scholars:

Menze, Bjoern (PhD Heidelberg University, Computer Science, 2007), “Mapping Formation Processes of the Neo-Assyrian Empire using Archaeological Remote Sensing” (2007-2008).  Currently Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Swiss Federal Technical University (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.

Anthropology Departmental Service:

2008-2010, 2012-present Coordinator of the Harvard Archaeology Seminar (formerly the Archaeology Wing Wednesday Lunch Seminar)

2008 Member, Archaeology Wing Vision Statement Committee

University Service:

2009- present Member, Standing Committee on Archaeology [website]

2008-2010 Freshman Faculty Advisor (4 students)

2008-present Member, Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) Steering Committee

2006-2007 Member, CGA Remote Sensing Workshop Advisory Committee

2006-2007 Member, Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science selection committee

2006 Member, CGA Director/Professor of Engineering Search Committee