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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...
2018-19 Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Postdoctoral Position Extended Deadline: September 10
August 27, 2018
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles announces a postdoctoral position for the 2018-19 academic year with the possibility of a one year extension. We are...
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...
Amr Shahat Wins Best Student Poster at ARCE Annual Meeting
May 22, 2018
Amr Shahat, a second-year student in the Archaeology PhD Program, has won the award for Best Student Poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).His poster, The...
Archaeologists uncover evidence suggesting rice terraces helped the Ifugao resist Spanish colonization
April 9, 2018
Cotsen Alum Brett Kaufman Receives Tenure-Track Position at the University of Illinois
March 20, 2018
Dr. Brett Kaufman, an alumnus of the UCLA Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, will be joining the University of Illinois Department of Classics as an Assistant Professor in August 2018. 
Discovering the World's Oldest Wine
March 19, 2018
The Smithsonian released a podcast about the discoveries in the Areni Cave in Armenia. The Cotsen Institute's own Dr. Hans Barnard appears in the podcast to discuss his work on the wine residues....
CIOA Press Author Awarded G. Ernest Wright Award at ASOR
November 21, 2017
Friday, 17 November 2017Boston, MassachusettsThe Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is extremely happy to announce that Glenn M. Schwartz, the editor and principal author of Rural Archaeology in Early...
1,500-yr-old artifacts found in CamSur
August 25, 2017
Dr. Stephen Acabado's work in Camarines Sur was featured in recent news in the Philippines.
"Maya Pompeii" Offers Snapshot of Village Frozen in Time
August 17, 2017
Cotsen Postdoctoral Scholar Alan Farahani is the lead author of a new study published in the journal Antiquity detailing the results of recent reseach at Joya de Ceren, a small Maya village buried...
Academic Excellence: Friends of Archaeology Dinner
July 20, 2017
Speakers Ellen Hsieh on Archaeology of the Boxer Codex: Spanish, Chinese, and Indigenous reactions in the Colonial Philippines, Karime Castillo on Glass Production in New Spain: Some Results of a...
Jaffa Excavations Featured in Archaeology Magazine
June 19, 2017
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures professor Aaron Burke’s archaeological research of an Egyptian fortress in Jaffa are the subject of Archaeology magazine’s cover story by Roger Atwood in the July/...
Harvard Awards Sarah Morris the Centennial Medal
May 26, 2017
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at UCLA and an archaeologist...
Friends of Archaeology Tour to Downtown LA Theater District Spring 2017
April 14, 2017
Photos from Wednesday, February 15 Lecture and Book Launch
March 23, 2017