#  Harvard University Activities 

 



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*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](http://dmns.academia.edu/MicheleKoons) (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](http://nyu.academia.edu/EmilyHammer) (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](http://johnshopkins.academia.edu/JamesOsborne) (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](http://harvard.academia.edu/AdamAja) (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](http://harvard.academia.edu/KarimAlizadeh/About) (Anthropology), “Social Inequality at Ravaz, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Iranian Azerbaijan.”

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo](http://harvard.academia.edu/NathanielErbSatullo) (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](http://harvard.academia.edu/MaxPrice) (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](http://people.csail.mit.edu/menze/) (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 \[[website](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sca/index.html)\]

2008-2010 Freshman Faculty Advisor (4 students)

2008-present Member, Center for Geographic Analysis ([CGA](http://gis.harvard.edu)) 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