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Two Cotsen Institute Alumnae Named to Tenure-Track Positions
September 12, 2022
Carrie Arbuckle MacLeod (left) and Debby Sneed (right). Carrie Arbuckle MacLeod and Debby Sneed, both of whom earned their PhD degrees from the Cotsen Institute in 2018, have recently accepted tenure...
From the Field: St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
August 29, 2022
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the CotsenInstitute, returned to the Estate Little Princess for the first time since the pandemic began to continue...
Stella Nair Co-organizes Conference and Native American Community-based Workshops
August 22, 2022
Stella Nair, associate professor of art history and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, is co-organizer of “The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology, Ephemeral Architecture, and Imperialism in the...
FROM THE FIELD: MONTICELLO, VIRGINIA
August 15, 2022
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, who is a 2022 NEH-Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery fellow, is shown while...
From the Field: Monticello, Virginia
August 15, 2022
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, who is a 2022 NEH-Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery fellow, is shown while...
Anya Dani Joins Conservation Program to Help Expand Inclusivity
August 5, 2022
As part of an effort to expand “our own capacity to teach cultural heritage conservation in an inclusive manner,” Glenn Wharton, chair of the Conservation Program, announced that effective August 1,...
From the Field: Bikol, the Philippines
July 25, 2022
The following report was provided by Robin Meyer-Lorey, UCLA graduate student in Anthropology, who spent the summer of 2022 in the Philippines working on his MA capstone project.Figure captions:...
Glenn Wharton Honored with Conservation Award
July 11, 2022
Glenn Wharton, professor of Art History and chair of the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, which is part of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has received the 2022...
Spring 2022 Celebrations
July 7, 2022
 In-person doctoral hooding ceremonies for the years 2022 and 2021 were held at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Wednesday May 11, 2022—following a two-year hiatus because of the Covid-19 pandemic. At this...
Introducing Piphal Heng: Cotsen and PEMSEA Postdoctoral Scholar
May 11, 2022
Many members of the Cotsen Institute, as well as countless others, will need no introduction to Piphal Heng, the incoming 2022–24 postdoctoral scholar at the Cotsen Institute and the Program for...
Sarah Beckmann Awarded Rome Prize Fellowship
May 13, 2022
Sarah Beckmann, assistant professor of Classics and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, has been awarded a 2022 Rome Prize Fellowship in ancient studies for her work on “The Villa in Late...
Stephen Acabado Named Chair of the Archaeology Program at the Cotsen Institute
April 25, 2022
Stephen Acabado, associate professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, has been named chair of the Interdepartmental Program (IDP) in Archaeology for a three-year term...
Vanessa Muros Awarded Boochever Endowment
April 22, 2022
Vanessa Muros, PhD, has been awarded the Kathleen and David Boochever Endowment Fund for Fieldwork and Scientific Analyses by the Archaeological Institute of America. The Boochever Fund supports...
Kara Cooney and Willeke Wendrich Support Program to Increase Inclusivity Within the Field of Egyptology
April 22, 2022
Kara Cooney, professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture, chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute has been instrumental in the...
Cotsen Institute Welcomes Greg Woolf
March 18, 2022
In his studies, all roads may have led to Rome for Greg Woolf, the newest member of the core faculty of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. When teaching, the road covered the United Kingdom,...
Excellence in Publishing with the Cotsen Institute Press
March 11, 2022
Whether it is a book based on your PhD dissertation, a compilation of essays on a theme, or a two-volume tome covering a decade of excavations, you want the publication of your work to reflect...
Justin Dunnavant Welcomed As Scholar-In-Residence at Occidental College
March 7, 2022
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, has been honored with the 2022 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-In-Residence award...
Balzan Prize Awarded to Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
February 25, 2022
On February 2, the International Balzan Prize Foundation announced that Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati were awarded the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near...
Cotsen Institute Takes Active Role in Archaeological Centers Coalition
February 18, 2022
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, in concert with the Archaeological Centers Coalition (ACC), hopes to have a positive influence on the future of archaeology. The ACC is a community of...
Cotsen Alumnus Jacob Bongers Publishes Research in Antiquity
February 3, 2022
Jacob Bongers is the lead author of an article in the April 2022 issue of Antiquity. Bongers received his PhD from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in 2019 and is currently a senior research...
NEH Awards Conservation Program $310,000 for Training in Preservation of Indigenous Collections
January 12, 2022
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage a grant of $310,362 for a project titled “Preservation of Indigenous Collections...
Remembering Don Corbett
January 7, 2022
Don Corbett, a long-time dedicated benefactor of the Cotsen Institute, passed away December 10, 2021 at the age of 89. “We will miss him in our midst, where his presence was always upbeat and full of...
Cotsen Affiliates Co-author Paper Published in Antiquity; Cited Internationally
January 3, 2022
An article co-authored by three affiliates of the Cotsen Institute, was published online November 24, 2021 in the journal Antiquity under the title “Volcanic Climate Forcing, Extreme Cold and the...
CIoA Press Book Wins AIA McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports
December 13, 2021
Landscape History of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008, published in 2020 by the CIoA Press, has been awarded the 2022 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for...
Find Archaeology and Conservation Events on Our YouTube Channel
November 10, 2021
You might not know what you are missing if you do not know about the YouTube Channel of the Cotsen Institute. Here we offer access to selected Pizza Talks, Conservation Conversations, Public Lecture...