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Glenn Wharton Named Chair of Conservation
August 29, 2019
Glenn Wharton, who recently joined the UCLA faculty as professor in the Department of Art History, has also been named Chair of the Interdepartmental Program (IDP) in Conservation of Archaeological...
Conservation Students Awarded Internships
August 29, 2019
Successful placement of the third-year Conservation students has been announced :Austin Anderson, The Walters Art MuseumElena Bowen, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Carlos MuseumKasey...
Undocumented Migration Program Featured in D.C. Museum Exhibit
August 15, 2019
The Undocumented Migration Program (UMP), which is directed by Prof. Jason De Leon, was cited in a recent article in The New York Times discussing a special exhibition at the Phillips Collection in D...
Two-Day Symposium Honors Lothar von Falkenhausen
July 19, 2019
International colleagues and former students gathered at UCLA in June for the two-day workshop and symposium “The Art and Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia” in honor of Lothar von...
Jo Anne Van Tilburg Featured in College Magazine, "60 Minutes" and Podcast
July 17, 2019
The monolithic stone statues that were carved and placed on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) from around 1100 to 1400 have fascinated the world for decades. Van Tilburg and Anderson Cooper discussed efforts...
2019 End of Year Celebration
July 17, 2019
Gregson Schachner Named Chair of Archaeology IDP
July 11, 2019
Gregson Schachner, associate professor of anthropology, has been named chair of the Interdepartmental Program (IDP) in Archaeology for a three-year term effective July 1, 2019. Schachner has been a...
Monica Smith's Latest Book Featured in UCLA Newsroom
July 11, 2019
Celebrating the 2018-19 Academic Year
July 9, 2019
Cotsen Institute's Visiting Scholar Sonia Zarillo
May 1, 2019
Sonia Zarrillo is a postdoctoral fellow who describes herself as an anthropological archaeologist with a specialization in paleoethnobotany, the study of the interaction between people and plants in...
Meredith Cohen, Cotsen associate professor of medieval art and architecture, interviewed by National Geographic following Notre Dame fire.
April 22, 2019
Cotsen at the SAAs
April 19, 2019
Congratulations to all of the SAA participants from Cotsen!Stephen AcabadoJared Koller and Stephen AcabadoExpansion Modeling and Dating the Ifugao Agricultural Terrace Systems Through Volumetric...
Cotsen alumnus, James Brady, co-directs investigation of cave discovered under Chichén Itzá
April 16, 2019
Lothar von Falkenhausen awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
April 13, 2019
"Lothar von Falkenhausen is a professor of Chinese archaeology and art history in the UCLA College and heads the East Asian laboratory at UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Falkenhausen’s main...
Cotsen Institute's Visiting Scholar Marina Gallinaro
April 10, 2019
Marina Gallinaro is a Marie-Curie Researcher (a program of the European Union) who will be working with Professors Richard Lesure and Willeke Wendrich at the CIOA for the next two years. Her...
Kara Cooney, Cotsen faculty member, says a ruler’s gender matters less than whose agendas are served
March 11, 2019
Kara Cooney, Chair of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, was interviewed in the UCLA Daily Bruin. Read the full article here.
Professor Thomas Wake Appointed as a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
February 8, 2019
It is our great pleasure to announce that Professor Thomas Wake has been appointed as a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI).  Research Associate status is awarded...
An Interview with Dr. Merrick Posnansky
February 8, 2019
Anthony Graesch interviewed in New York Times on Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
November 5, 2018
Anthony Graesch, co-author of Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century (CIoA Press, 2012), was interviewed for a recent article in the New York Times about how middle-class Americans use their homes...
Announcing New Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeobotany, Dr. Sonia Zarrillo
October 31, 2018
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is pleased to announce that Dr. Sonia Zarrillo has been awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeobotany.  Dr. Zarrillo received her Ph.D. from the University...
Cotsen Alumnus Mac Marston Receives Coveted James R. Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America
October 25, 2018
Mac Marston, who obtained his PhD from the archaeology program at UCLA in 2010 has won the prestigious and highly coveted James R. Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America for...
Cotsen Alumnus Brett Kaufman Receives NSFC Grant
August 17, 2018
 Brett Kaufman (PhD 2014), Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of the Classics, was awarded a major grant by the National Natural Science Foundation of...
Announcing a New Distribution Partnership for the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
August 7, 2018
August 7, 2018We are very pleased to announce that ISD, which is owned and operated by Ian Stevens, is our new distributor for the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press books. They have years of...
The 2017-18 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony and End of Year Reception
June 29, 2018
On Thursday, June 14, 2018, the UCLA Doctoral Hooding Ceremony recognized UCLA doctoral students who filed their dissertations and completed their degrees during the past academic year. A total of 9...
Egyptology Student Marissa Stevens Presents at UC Grad Slam Finals
June 18, 2018
On May 3, 2018, Marissa Stevens, a Cotsen affiliated student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, presented at the UC Grad Slam Finals. She was invited to present her 3-minute...