Noteworthy
JUSTIN DUNNAVANT named to National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Board
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has been named to the Board of Trustees of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. Read the announcement here.
Dunnavant will be the inaugural speaker in our new lecture series Breaking Ground on February 8 at 6pm. The lecture will be live-streamed. Learn more about Dunnavant here.
STEPHEN ACABADO featured on Philippine online news website
Stephen Acabado, associate professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, wrote an opinion piece in the November 22 edition of “Rappler,” a Philippine online news website. The article, “Beyond Indiana Jones: An inclusive Philippine archaeology,” is part of the Thought Leaders section of the website. Acabado was recently appointed director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA.
JUSTIN DUNNAVANT featured in UC Newsroom article
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, was featured in the UCLA Newsroom for his research on shipwrecks and the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies. The article by Jonathan Riggs of UCLA was also picked up by the UC-wide news agency. Read the piece here.
Dunnavant will be the inaugural speaker in our new lecture series Breaking Ground on February 8 at 6pm. The lecture will be live-streamed. Learn more about Dunnavant here.
STEPHEN ACABADO’s research profiled by UCLA International Institute
The extensive work and research of Stephen Acabado was featured in an October 22 article of the UCLA International Institute. Acabado, who is the new director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, is associate professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
Remembering alumnus TOM PARKER
S. Thomas (Tom) Parker, one of the first alumni of the UCLA Archaeology Program (before it became the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) passed away on September 12. He received his PhD in history from UCLA in 1979, under supervision of Ron Mellor and Susan Downey, to develop into a well-known archaeologist of Roman Jordan. Since 1980, Tom was a faculty member of the Department of History at North Carolina State University, where he became an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and a member of the Research Leadership Academy. In 2021 he received the Michael Dickey Outstanding Research Mentor Award for his excellence in mentoring and supporting undergraduate researchers. More details on his many contributions to the fields of history and archaeology can be found on the websites of the American Society of Overseas Research and North Carolina State University.
COTSEN affiliates co-author Current Anthropology article
Several current and former Cotsen Institute affiliates were part of a group to publish an article in Current Anthropology that has been cited by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Phys.org. Among the co-authors are Hans Barnard and Brian Damiata, both of whom are associate researchers at the Cotsen Institute; Alan Farahani, former postdoctoral fellow at the Cotsen Institute; and Brett Kaufman, who graduated from the institute in 2014 and now is assistant professor in classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Also among the co-authors is Rayed Khedher, who received his PhD in anthropology from UCLA and is currently visiting assistant professor in the Arabic Language Program at Wake Forest University.
JUSTIN DUNNAVANT featured in Hulu Initiative 29
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, narrates an episode of Hulu’s Initiative 29, released September 29. In this he explores his research into Afro-Puerto Rican history and culture in the town of Loiza, Puerto Rico. Initiative 29 aims to present socially-conscious content of six to eight minutes.
JUSTIN DUNNAVANT quoted in New Yorker article
Justin Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, has been quoted in the October 4 issue of The New Yorker magazine, where he discusses African American skeletal remains in university collections.
Cotsen Institute alumnus BRENDAN BURKE named Mellon Professor in Athens
Brendan Burke, who received his PhD in archaeology from UCLA in 1998, has been named to a three-year appointment as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Burke is currently professor of Greek and Roman studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
STELLA NAIR honored by UCLA Center for the Study of Women and Center for 17th– and 18th- Century Studies
Stella Nair, associate professor of art history and core faculty member of the Cotsen Institute, has been awarded significant honors by two UCLA centers. She has been chosen for the 2021–2022 joint Research Excellence Award for UCLA Associate Professors by the Center for the Study of Women and the Institute of American Cultures. The award consists of a monograph manuscript workshop (or equivalent) to secure continued excellence in scholarship by UCLA professors at the associate level while addressing questions important to the fields of critical race and postcolonial studies, as well as gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies. The organization will bring specialists together on campus to review and discuss Nair’s book manuscript, “Inca Architecture and the Daughters of the Moon.”
In addition, Nair and Paul Niell, associate professor of art history at Florida State University, have been named by the Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies as 2022–2023 Clark Professors at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library for their project “The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology, Ephemeral Architecture, and Imperialism in the Circum-Caribbean and Trans-Atlantic World.” Nair and Niell will organize the Core Foundation Program, which includes a series of three conferences that will draw scholars from across the world to study the intricate relationships between colonialism, ecologies, and building practices in the early modern world. According to Nair this will also provide research and financial opportunities for graduate students.
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