collaborator Khatchadourian, Lori Assistant Professor Manning, Sturt Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology Director, Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology
principal investigator on COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE FORTRESS AND THE GRASSROOTS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES ON THE TSAGHKAHOVIT PLAIN, ARMENIA awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2011 - 2013
individual publications academic article Archaeologies of Sovereignty. Annual Review of Anthropology. 40:415-432. 2011 Project ArAGATS: 10 Years of Investigation of Bronze and Iron Age Sites in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia. TÜBA-AR: Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology. 13:263-276. 2010 Magnetic Survey in the Investigation of Sociopolitical Change at a Late Bronze Age Fortress Settlement in Northwestern Armenia . Archaeological Prospection. 17:15-27. 2010 Those Obscure Objects of Desire. Archaeological Dialogues. 17:172-176. 2010 Village, Fortress, and Town in Bronze Age and Iron Age Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary report on the 2003-2006 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia. Archaologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan. 40:45-105. 2008 A History of Archaeology in the Republic of Armenia. Journal of Field Archaeology. 31:165-184. 2006 Undisciplined Theory. Archaeological Dialogues. 13:158-163. 2006 Prometheus Unbound: Southern Caucasia in Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory. 19:229-279. 2005 Svyatilishche Pozdnego Bonzovogo Veka Gekharota. Kul’tura Drevnej Armenii. 13:109-115. 2005 Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Archaeological Investigations by Project ArAGATS in the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia. American Journal of Archaeology. 108:1-41. 2004 The End of the Essential Archaeological Subject. Archaeological Dialogues. 11:1-20. 2004 We, They, and I: Politics After the End of the Essential Archaeological Subject. Archaeological Dialogues. 11:27-35. 2004 Endangered Specificities: An Interview with Marshall Sahlins,16 October 2001 . Journal of Social Archaeology. 2:283-297. 2002 The Limitations of Doxa: Agency and Subjectivity from an Archaeological Point of View. Journal of Social Archaeology. 1:155-171. 2001 Preliminary Report on the 1998 Archaeological Investigations of Project ArAGATS in the Tsakahovit Plain, Armenia. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici. 42:19-59. 2000 Rendering the Political Aesthetic: Political Legitimacy in Urartian Representations of the Built Environment. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 19:131-163. 2000 book The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia. Vol. 1. Chicago, IL: Oriental Institute Press. 2009 The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2003 chapter The Caucasus and the Near East. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 2012 The Prehistory of an Urartian Landscape. Biainili-Urartu: The Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Munich 12-14 October 2007. 2012 Figuring the Political: The Stuff of Sovereignty in a Post-Evolutionary Archaeology. The Archaeology of Politics: The Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past. 2011 The Politics of Loss: Comments on a Powerful Death. Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. 2007 Before Argishti: The Roots of Complex Societies in Caucasia, Notes from the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia. Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. 2006 Introduction. Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. 2006 Representational Aesthetics and Political Subjectivity: The Spectacular in Urartian Images of Performance. Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics. 2006 Southern Caucasia During the Late Bronze Age: An Interim Report on the Regional Investigations of Project ArAGATS in Western Armenia. Anatolian Iron Ages 5: Proceedings of the Fifth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Van, 6-10 August 2001. 2005 Iron Age Caucasia. Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.--A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World. 2004 Urartu and the Southern Caucasian Political Tradition. A View from the Highlands: Trans-Caucasus, Eastern Anatolia and Northwestern Iran. 2004 Introduction: Archaeology in the Borderlands. Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond. 2003 The Emergence of Socio-Political Complexity in Southern Caucasia. Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond. 2003
editor of Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions
teaching activities ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Spring 2013 ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Spring 2013 ANTHR-6402: Material Theory II: Assemblage & Object - Spring 2013 ANTHR-7742: Research Methods in Archaeology - Spring 2013 ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Spring 2013 ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Spring 2013 ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Spring 2013 ARKEO-6402: Material Theory II: Assemblage & Object - Spring 2013 ARKEO-7742: Research Methods in Archaeology - Spring 2013 ARTH-6252: Research Methods in Archaeology - Spring 2013 CLASS-7742: Research Methods in Archaeology - Spring 2013 ANTHR-2430: The Rise and Fall of "Civilization" - Fall 2012 ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Fall 2012 ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Fall 2012 ANTHR-6401: Material Theory I: Landscape & Place - Fall 2012 ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Fall 2012 ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Fall 2012 ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Fall 2012 ARKEO-2430: The Rise and Fall of "Civilization" - Fall 2012 ARKEO-6401: Material Theory I: Landscape & Place - Fall 2012 ANTHR-1148: FWS: Politics, Order, Culture - Spring 2012 ANTHR-4453: Political Anthropology - Spring 2012 ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Spring 2012 ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Spring 2012 ANTHR-7453: Political Anthropology - Spring 2012 ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Spring 2012 ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Spring 2012 ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Spring 2012 ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Fall 2011 ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Fall 2011 ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Fall 2011 ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Fall 2011
education and training Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Arizona 1996 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Arizona 1993 Cambridge University, M.Phil. 1991 B.A. in Anthropology and Political Science, Brown University 1990