LYNN MESKELL

Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
New York, 10027
Ph: 212 854 7465
Fax: 212 854 7347
LMM64@columbia.edu

ACADEMIC HISTORY

2001- Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

1999- 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

1997-1999 Harold Salvesen Research Fellowship, New College, Oxford University Tutor for Women, New College, Oxford University

1994-1997 University of Cambridge—PhD (Archaeology)

1990-1994 University of Sydney—Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours and University Medal

1990-1992 Macquarie University—Egyptology

1985-1987 Queensland University of Technology—Diploma of Secondary School Teaching (Art, History and English)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Archaeological theory, Egyptian archaeology, Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology, gender and sexuality, identity and politics, the body, postcolonial and feminist theory, globalism, nationalism, ethics and heritage, tourism, archaeology and the goddess, spatial analysis, digital methodologies, archaeology and the internet.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2002 Resident Scholar Fellowship, School of American Research, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002 Alisa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (declined)

2002 Visiting Fellow, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, (declined)

2002 National Research Foundation, South Africa, Research Fellow, July-August

2001 Visiting Fellow, New College, Oxford, Summer

2001 Columbia Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship,

2000 Visiting Fellow New College, Oxford, Summer

2000 Columbia Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship,

1997 Harold Salvesen Research Fellowship (3 years), New College, Oxford University

1994 The King's College Scholarship, University of Cambridge

1994 Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Overseas Research Scholarships

1994 The University Medal, University of Sydney

1993 Dani Petocz Memorial Prize for Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney

1993 Cypriot Archaeology Award, University of Sydney

1992 J.R.B. Stewart Memorial Award for Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney

1992 Cypriot Archaeology Award, University of Sydney

1992 University Book Prize, University of Sydney

ACADEMIC GRANTS

2001 National Science Foundation Grant for Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites ($2 million)

2001 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy grant for digital media in Egyptian excavations at Amheida ($15,000)

2000 For Excavations at Amheida, Academic Quality Fund, Columbia University ($373,500)

1998 Gerald Avery Wainwright Near Eastern Archaeology Fund (£2000)

1998 Griffith Fund for Egyptology, University of Oxford (£1600)

1998 Faculty of Oriental Studies Grant, Oxford University

1996 Mulvey Travel Award, Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. Invitation from the Department of Egyptology, Leiden University

1996, 1995, 1994 King’s College Travel Fund for research and fieldwork in Egypt

FIELDWORK

2003 Drakensburg & Kimberly survey, South Africa, digital archaeology NSF project — Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand.

2003 Monte Polizzo, Sicily, digital archaeology NSF project—Prof. I. Morris

2000-2003 Field DirectorColumbia University Excavations at Amheida, Egypt

1998, 1999 Co-DirectorSouth Saqqara Survey Project, Egypt

1995, 1996 Cambridge Theban Mission TT99, Luxor, Egypt—Dr. N. Strudwick

1995 International Mission to Kafr Hassan Dawood, East Delta, Egypt—Prof. F. Hassan

1994 Australian Expedition to Torone, Greece—Prof. A. Cambitoglou & AAIA

1993 Sydney Cyprus Survey Project, Cyprus—Dr. A.B. Knapp

1992 Rota, Micronesia—Dr. J. Craib

1991 Dicksons Mill, Sydney, Australia—The Rocks Authority

1991 Regentville, NSW, Australia—J. Birmingham, Sydney University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001- Associate Professor in Anthropology, Columbia University

1999-2001 Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Columbia University

1997-1999 Lecturing at Oxford University, Oriental Institute

1997-1999 Lecturing at Cambridge University, Archaeology Department

1997-1999 Lecturing at Warwick University, School of Classics and Ancient History

1997-1999 Course organiser: Private Life in Ancient Egypt. UCL Bloomsbury, London

1995-1996 Lecturer for Birkbeck College and UCL Day Schools and Summer Schools

1994-1997 Tutor in Archaeology, King's, Downing, Magdalene, Emmanuel, Pembroke, Peterhouse Colleges, Cambridge University

1993-1994 Education Officer, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney

1990-1993 Secondary School Tutoring, Sydney

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

1993-1994 Research Assistant, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, University of Sydney

1994 Administrative Assistant, Research Office, University of Sydney

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

1999- present Founding and Managing Editor ofthe Journal of Social Archaeology, Sage Publications: London.

BOOKS

In press Material Biographies: Object Worlds from Ancient Egypt and Beyond, Berg: Oxford.

2003 Embodied Lives: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience, Routledge: London
(with Rosemary Joyce, in press).

2002 Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt, Princeton University Press: Princeton.
Translated in French forEditions Autrement, Paris in association with the Louvre
Individual Edition published by the History Book Club in 2003

1999 Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Etcetera in Ancient Egypt, Social Archaeology Series. Blackwell: Oxford.

1998 (Editor) Archaeology under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.Routledge: London.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION

Editor, Companion to Social Archaeology, Blackwell: Oxford (with Bob Preucel).

Editor, Ethical Locations: Anthropological Moralities on the Boundaries of the Public and the Professional, Berg: Oxford (with Peter Pels).

BOOK SERIES

Commissioning Editor, Studies in Global Archaeology, Blackwell: Oxford.

• Historical Archaeology, ed. M. Hall & S. Silliman
• North American Archaeology, ed. T. Pauketat & D. Loren
• Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory, ed. E. Blake & A. B. Knapp
• Archaeology of the Near East, ed. R. Bernbeck & S. Pollock
• Mesoamerican Archaeology, ed. J. Hendon & R.A. Joyce
• Archaeological History in Oceania: Australia & the Pacific Islands, ed.I. Lilley
• Asian Archaeology, ed. M. Stark
• Classical Archaeology, ed. S.E. Alcock & R. Osborne
• African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction, ed. A. Stahl
• Archaeology of The Incas and Other Ancient Civilizations of The Central Andes, ed. H. Silverman
• Histories of Archaeological Practice, ed. C. Gosden & D. Wengrow

PAPERS

2003

Feminist Theory and Feminist Anthropology: What Conversations Could or Should We Be Having? Statement for Association for Feminist Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Newsletter April Issue

Memory’s materiality: ancestral presence, commemorative practice and disjunctive locales, in S. Alcock & R van Dyke (eds) Archaeologies of Memory. Blackwell: Oxford, 34-55.

2002

Negative heritage and past mastering in archaeology, Anthropological Quarterly 75/3:557-574.

The Intersections of Politics and Identity, Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 279-301

A Report on Beyond Ethics: Anthropological Moralities on the Boundaries of the Public and the Professional, Wenner-Gren Foundation Publication (with Peter Pels) http://www.wennergren.org/news.html

2001

The practice and politics of archaeology in Egypt, in A-M. Cantwell, E. Friedlander, & M.L. Tram
(eds) Ethics and Anthropology: Facing Future Issues in Human Biology, Globalism, and
Cultural Property, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: New York, 146-9.

Archaeologies of Identity, in I. Hodder (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today, Polity: Cambridge, 187-213. Reprinted in Approaches in Archaeological Theory: Volume II: A Thematic Reader.

From social to cognitive archaeology: an interview with Colin Renfrew, Journal of Social Archaeology 1:1, 13-34.

Editorial statement, Journal of Social Archaeology 1/1:5-12.

The Egyptian ways of death, in M. Chesson (ed) Social Memory, Identity and Death: Intradisciplinary Perspectives on Mortuary Rituals, American Anthropological Association: Washington, 27-40.

Field report on the 2000 and 2001 seasons at Amheida, http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida, April 2001

2000

Cycles of life: narrative homology and archaeological realities, World Archaeology:Lifecycles 31/3: 423 - 441.

Feminism in archaeology, in L. Code (ed.) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge: London, 35-6.

Re-embedding sex: domesticity, sexuality and ritual in New Kingdom Egypt, in B. Voss & R. Schmidt, Archaeologies of Sexuality, Routledge: London. 253-262.

Comment on Emotion in Archaeology, Current Anthropology 41/5: 737.

Reprint of excerpts from Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology, in Taking Sides: Anthropology, McGraw Hill, 146-156.

Embodying archaeology: theory and praxis, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37: 171-192.

Spatial analysis of the Deir el Medina Necropoleis, in R.J. Demarée & A. Egberts (eds), Deir el-Medina in the Third Millennium AD, Egyptologische Uitgaven 14; Leiden, Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.

1999

The archaeologies of life and death, American Journal of Archaeology 103/2, 181-99.

Feminism, pluralism, paganism, in A. Gazin-Schwartz & C. Holtorf (eds) Archaeology and Folklore, Routledge: London, pp 83 - 89.

Writing the body in archaeology, in A. Rautman (ed.)Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record,University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 13-21.

1998

Archaeology matters, in L. M. Meskell (ed.) Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Routledge: London, pp. 1-12.

Oh my goddess! Archaeology, sexuality and ecofeminism, Archaeological Dialogues 5/2:126-42.

Intimate archaeologies: the case of Kha and Merit, World Archaeology: Intimate Relations, 29/3:363-379.

An archaeology of social relations in an Egyptian village, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5/3: 209-243.

Running the gamut: gender, girls and goddesses, American Journal of Archaeology 102: 181-85.

Consuming bodies: cultural fantasies of ancient Egypt, Body and Society 4/1: 63-76

Twin Peaks: the archaeologies of Çatalhöyük, in C. Morris & L. Goodison (eds) Ancient Goddesses: Myths and Evidence, British Museum Press: London: 46-62.

That's capital M, capital G, in J. Hope et al. (eds) Redefining Archaeology: Feminist Perspectives, ANU Press: Canberra, 147-153.

Size matters: sex, gender and status in Egyptian iconography, in J. Hope et al. (eds) Redefining Archaeology: Feminist Perspectives, ANU Press: Canberra, 175-181.

1997

The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology, in D. Montserrat (ed.) Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity, Routledge: London, 139-161.

Engendering Egypt, Gender and History: Gender and the Body in Mediterranean Antiquity 9/3:597-602.

Electronic Egypt: the shape of archaeological knowledge on the Net, Antiquity, 71:1073-6.

Bodies of evidence in Prehistoric Cyprus, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 7/2: 183-204 (with A. B. Knapp).

Mortuary archaeology and religious landscape at Graeco-Roman Deir el Medina, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 83:179-198 (with D. Montserrat).

Constructing Sex and Gender in archaeology, At The Edge 6: 6-10.

1996

The somatisation of archaeology: discourses, institutions, corporeality, Norwegian Archaeological Review 29/1:1-16.

Dying young: the experience of death at Deir el Medina, Perspectives on Children and Childhood: Archaeological Review from Cambridge 13/2:35-45.

1995

Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology, Antiquity 69:74-86.

Sex strike and the meaning of life, Australian Women in Archaeology Newsletter 4/2:2-4.

1994

Deir el Medina in hyperreality: seeking the people of pharaonic Egypt, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 7/2: 193-216.

Desperately seeking gender: a review article, Archaeology Out of Africa: Archaeological Review from Cambridge 13/1: 105-111.

Archaeology vs. texts, Ancient History Resources for Teachers 24/2: 93-109.

PUBLISHED REVIEWS

2000

Masquerades and mis/representations: Or when is a triangle just a triangle? Review of Marija Gimbutas, The Living Goddesses, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10/2: 360-362.

1999

Crest of the wave: Review of T. Sweely (ed.), Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9/2: 297-300.

Review of J. Lustig (ed.), Egyptology and Anthropology: A Developing Dialogue, American Journal of Archaeology 103/1:127-9.

1997

Review of T. Taylor, The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Year’s of Human Sexual Culture, for Norwegian Archaeological Review 30/1:71-3.

Review of D. Montserrat, Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt, American Journal of Archaeology 101/3:619-621.

1996

Review of S. Billington & M. Green (eds), The Concept of the Goddess, for Norwegian Archaeological Review 29/2:117-120.

1994

Review of M. Díaz-Andreu & T. Champion, Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 13/2: 149-152.

Rewriting the Goddess, Australian Women in Archaeology Newsletter 1/1:9-10.

PAPERS IN PRESS

Pharaonic legacies: postcolonialism, heritage and hyperreality, in S. Kane (ed.) The Politics of Archaeology and Identity in a Global Context, AIA Monographs/Cotsen Institute: Los Angeles.

Naturalising gender in prehistory, in S McKinnon & S. Silverman (eds) Complexities: Anthropological Challenges to Reductive Accounts of Bio-Social Life. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.

Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and heritage in the archaeological present, in L. M. Meskell & P. Pels (eds) Ethical Locations: Anthropological Moralities on the Boundaries of the Public and the Professional. Berg: Oxford.

Objects in the mirror appear closer than they are, in D. Miller (ed.) Materiality. Duke University Press: Durham.

Archaeology as therapy: memory and forgetting in the Rainbow Nation, concluding chapter in N. Murray & M. Hall (eds) Mapping Alternatives: Disciplining Heritage Studies in South Africa, submitted to Routledge.

Divine Things, in C. Renfrew, C, Gosden & L. DeMarrais, Rethinking Materiality, McDonald Institute for Archaeology: Cambridge.

PAPERS IN PREPARTION

Archaeology after Apartheid: the politics of heritage in the new South Africa (with G. Blundell & D. Pearce) to be submitted to Current Anthropology.

CONFERENCES IN PREPARATION

2004

Symposium on Materiality, School of American Research, Santa Fe, March 25-27

Tracing Memories: Material and Immaterial Strategies for Living with the Past, International Symposium organised for the School of American Research, Santa Fe

Global Archaeology and Intellectual Property, International Symposium organised for the School of American Research, Santa Fe

INVITED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES

2003

Negative heritage and the ethics of practice, Anthropology Department, Stanford University, Feb 27.

Workshop and taped interview, Conversations in Archaeology, Stanford University, Feb 28.

Divine Things, invited speaker for Rethinking MaterialityConference, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Cambridge University, March 28-31.

Statue worlds and divine things in ancient Egypt, School of American Research Colloquium, Santa Fe, April 30.

Organiser and Chair, Ethical Interactions: National Modernities, Tourism and the Archaeological Imaginary, World Archaeology Congress, Washington, June 25.

2002

Invited discussant, panel for Body Politics, The Archaeology of the Body Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, Feb. 15.

\Organiser of the Wenner-Gren International Conference on Ethics (with Peter Pels), Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Mar. 1 to 8.

Dead subjects and the ethics of practice in archaeology, Wenner-Gren International Conference on Ethics (L. Meskell and P. Pels organisers). Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Session Discussant,The Archaeology of the Body, Graduate Student Conference, Stanford University, Feb. 16.

Egyptian worlds-turned-upside down: Parody and Performance on a small scale, Spectacle, Performance, and Power in Premodern Complex Societies,SAA Meetings, Denver. Mar. 22

Travels in the interstices: Between material and interpretive spaces, Between Materiality And Interpretation: Archaeological Confessions, SAA Meetings, Denver. Mar. 23.

What’s the difference? feminism and archaeology today, Plenary panel on Feminism, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Mar. 27.

Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and heritage in the archaeological present, invited speaker for Conversation is What Counts: Archaeology, Ethics and Education, organized by the AIA, Department of Anthropology, Brown University's Centre for Old World Archaeology, Rhode Island College, April 27.

Negative heritage and the ethics of practice, Knowledge and Practice Seminar, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara, May 30-31.

Negative heritage and the ethics of practice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Unit, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, June 11.

Invited Visiting Professor, Rock Art Research Institute, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Science, University of the Witwatersrand,South Africa, July ( 2 weeks)

Invited Visiting Professor, Centre for African Studies and Research Unit for the Archaeology of Cape Town University of Cape Town, South Africa, August (2 weeks).

Invited Reviewer for MATRIX (Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant) workshop for Archaeological Ethics and Law, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Sept. 5-7.

Negative heritage, Afghanistan, Ground Zero and World Heritage, School of American Research Colloquium, Santa Fe, Sept. 11.

Negative heritage and the ethics of practice, Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Sept. 18.

Sketching Lifeworlds, Performing Resistance: Material Responses to Egyptian Social Critique, School of American Research Colloquium, Santa Fe, Oct. 23.

What Counts as Feminist Theory? Paper in The Past and Future Impact of Feminist Theories within Anthropological Discourse and Practice,AAA meetings, New Orleans, Nov. 21

Invited discussant, Beyond Description: Theorizing Approaches to "Heritage" and the Archaeological Past, AAA meetings, New Orleans, Nov. 21

Invited discussant, The Individual In Prehistory at Twenty-Five, AAA meetings, New Orleans, Nov. 22.

2001

Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and heritage in the archaeological present, University Seminar for Historic Preservation, Columbia University, Jan 30.

Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and heritage in the archaeological present, invited lecture for the Archaeology Workshop, Stanford University, Feb 9.

Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and heritage in the archaeological present, invited lecture for the Silberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York. Feb. 23.

Archaeological ethics and praxis, invited talk for Wenner-Gren, Feb 26.

Session Moderator, Reconfiguring Human Nature for Margaret Mead’s Legacy: Continuing Controversies, Conference held at Barnard College, New York. Mar. 6.

Dwelling amongst the ancients: community, citizenship and violence, paper in Archaeological Approaches to Locality, SAA Meetings, New Orleans, April 20.

Discussant for (Ad)dressing identity: the manipulation and representation of the body in constructions of identity,SAA Meetings, New Orleans, April 20.

Invited speaker in the student forum, Students, Make Your Mark: Strategies for Journal Publishing, SAA Meetings, New Orleans, April 19.

Invited speaker for Deir el Medina workshop, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture, UCLA, Oct. 5.

Dwelling amongst the ancients: community, citizenship and violence, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Oct. 5.

Dwelling amongst the ancients: community, citizenship and violence, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 5.

Invited speaker, Ancient Art panel, 13th Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, Barnard College, Nov. 10.

2000

Placing Egypt: Bernal’s historiography and the politics of Egyptian archaeology, Historical Knowledge, Power and Popular Culture: The Debate Around Black Athena Conference, Columbia University, Feb. 5.

Archaeologies of identity, invited speaker for the Baldwin Lecture Art History Department, Oberlin College, Ohio. Feb 13.

Egyptian cycles of death and life, invited paper Department of Classics, Broch University, Toronto, Mar. 11.

Love, eroticism and the poetics of contradiction, paper in Embodying the Millennium: Beyond Sex and Gender in Archaeology, SAA Meetings, Philadelphia, April 9.

Session co-chair and organiser, Embodying the Millennium: Beyond Sex and Gender in Archaeology, SAA Meetings, Philadelphia, April 9.

The politics and practice of archaeology in Egypt, invited paper for Ethical Dilemmas for Anthropology in the 21st Century, New York Academy of Sciences, April 14.

Excavating Amheida: Columbia’s new expedition in Egypt, invited Dean’s Day Talk, Columbia University, April 15.

Archaeologies of identity, invited speaker for Cotsen Institute, UCLA, April 21.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, Invited Lecture for the Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History Museum, Monash University, Melbourne, Aug. 9th.

Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and cultural cleansing in the archaeological present, invited paper for the Presidential Panel for Violence, AAA Meetings, San Francisco,Nov. 19.

1999

Identity, invited paper for Theoretical Archaeology and Classical Archaeology in the 1990s Seminar Series, Cambridge University, Feb. 15.

Bridging the Anglo-American divide, invited paper for Archaeological Method and Theory 2000, SAA Meetings, Chicago Mar. 26.

Sex and status in Egyptian iconography, paper presented at the Oxford Archaeological Society, Christ Church College, Oxford. May 18.

The importance of context: archaeological and anthropological responses to Stewart, invited paper for Body/Bildung: Discipline, Desire and the Humanities, Michigan University, Oct. 9.

Chair of Graeco-Roman Session, Symposium on Ancient Egypt/Modern Egypt: Continuity and Change, Columbia University, Oct. 24.

Giving voice to ancient lives, invited paper for Performance and Archaeology, AAA Meetings, Chicago, Nov. 20.

Discussant for The Limits of Agency session, organised by R, Bernbeck, AAA Meetings, Chicago, Nov. 18.

Invited paper and discussant for the Presidential Session on Politics, organised by N. Wilkie, AIA Meetings, Dallas, Dec. 29.

1998

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, paper presented at the Department of Archaeology, Glasgow University, Jan. 23.

Oh my Goddess! Archaeology, sexuality and ecofeminism, paper presented in the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University, Jan. 29.

Writing the body: institutions, discourses and corporeality, paper presented to the Greek Archaeology Group, Oxford University, Feb. 19th.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, paper presented in the Department of Archaeology, Columbia University, Mar. 13.

Re-embedding sex, paper presented at the SAA Meetings, Seattle, Washington, Mar. 27.

Evidence for social inequality at the settlement of Deir el Medina, invited paper for the Egyptology Seminar, University of Oxford, June 2.

Bodies, selves and individuals in the archaeology of Egypt, invited paper presented for Thinking Through the Body: A Lampeter Workshop in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter, June 21.

Oh my Goddess! Archaeology, sexuality and ecofeminism, invited paper presented at the Department of Archaeology, Reading University, Oct. 22.

Beyond the ‘Place of Truth’: social memory, mortuary landscape and hybrid cultures, invited paper for TAG, Birmingham University, Dec. 17.

1997

Age, sex and class— the mortuary evidence for Deir el Medina, invited paper for the Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Cardiff, Feb. 3.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, paper presented in the Archaeology Department, Boston University, Mar. 3.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, paper presented in the Near Eastern Archaeology Department, Columbia University, Mar. 4.

The archaeology of social inequality at Deir el Medina, paper presented at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Mar. 6.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, paper presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Mar. 10.

The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology, paper presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Mar. 11.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, paper presented in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Mar. 19.

The archaeology of social inequality at Deir el Medina, paper presented in the Department of Anthropology,University of New Mexico,Mar. 24.

Age, sex, class: intersections of difference at Deir el Medina, invited paper presented at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, May 16.

The archaeology of social inequality at Deir el Medina, invited paper for St Albans Museum, June 25.

Writing the body: institutions, discourses and corporeality, paper presented at the Fourth Women in Archaeology Conference: Feminism on the Frontier, Cairns, July 4.

The archaeology of social inequality at Deir el Medina, invited paper presented at the Bloomsbury Summer School, University College London, London, July 17.

Death and the Egyptian middle classes: a view from the ground up, invited paper presented at the Bloomsbury Summer School, University College London, London, July 25.

Oh my Goddess! Archaeology, sexuality and ecofeminism, invited paper for the Prehistoric Society Meeting, Sheffield University, Nov. 4.

Towards an archaeology of difference, paper presented at the AAA Meetings, Washington, Nov. 19.

1996

Death and the Egyptian middle classes: a view from the ground up, invited paper for TheBritish Museum, May 21st.

The spectre of Egypt: exotica and erotica, invited paper presented at the Homospectrality Conference, University of Warwick, May 25.

Putting people in their place: the future of Egyptian antiquities, invited paper presented at Birkbeck College, University College London, June 22nd.

Ancient Egypt: history and culture, invited paper presented at the Bloomsbury Summer School, University College London. July 18th & 25th.

Fragment as fetish, invited paper presented at Tragic Fragments Conference, University of Exeter, Sept. 17th.

The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology, seminar presented at the 4th Gender and Archaeology Conference. Gender and Archaeology: Diverse Approaches, Michigan State University, Oct. 18.

Consuming bodies: cultural fantasies of ancient Egypt, invited seminar presented for The Centre for Language and Cultural Theory, University of Southampton, Nov. 4.

Feminism, pluralism, paganism, paper presented at TAG, University of Liverpool, Dec. 17.

1995

That's capital M, capital G, paper delivered at the 3rd Australian Women in Archaeology Conference, Sydney, Feb. 3.

Size matters: sex, gender and status in Egyptian iconography, paper delivered at the 3rd Australian Women in Archaeology Conference, Sydney, Feb. 4.

Death and the middle classes: a view from the ground up, paper delivered at Birkbeck College, University College London, Nov. 6.

Mythopoetic trajectories: archaeo-politics of the past, paper delivered at Chacmool, University of Calgary, Canada, Nov. 11.

Writing the body: institutions, discourses and corporeality, paper delivered at TAG, University of Reading, Dec. 19.

Volatile bodies: bodies of evidence in Cypriot prehistory, joint paper with A. Bernard Knapp, delivered at AIA, San Diego, Dec. 27.

1994

Deir el Medina: archaeology vs. texts, paper delivered at the 1994 Ancient History Teacher's Conference, University of Sydney, Feb. 12.

SERVICE AT COLUMBIA

2003

Associate Director, Columbia Centre for Archaeology
Field Director, Columbia Excavations at Amheida, Egypt
Advisor, Art History and Archaeology Media Centre
Member, Institute of African Studies
Member, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
MA Examiner, Department of Historic Preservation

2002

Associate Director, Columbia Centre for Archaeology
Field Director, Columbia Excavations at Amheida, Egypt
Member, Steering Committee for Centre for the Ancient Mediterranean
Advisor, Art History and Archaeology Media Centre
Faculty Representative for Graduate Students
Member, Institute of African Studies
Member, Institute for Research on Women and Gender

2001

Associate Director, Columbia Centre for Archaeology
Field Director, Columbia Excavations at Amheida, Egypt
Faculty Representative for Graduate Students
Member, Steering Committee for Centre for the Ancient Mediterranean
Advisor, Art History and Archaeology Media Centre
Member, Institute of African Studies
Member, Institute for Research on Women and Gender

2000

Associate Director, Columbia Centre for Archaeology
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Director, Archaeological excavations, Amheida
Member, Search Committee for Anthropology position, Barnard College
Member, Steering Committee for Centre for the Ancient Mediterranean
Field Director, Columbia Excavations at Amheida, Egypt
Advisor, Art History and Archaeology Media Centre
PhD Thesis examiner, Art History and Archaeology Department
Teaching for the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Organiser, Graduate thesis workshop for archaeology
Member, Institute of African Studies
Member, Institute for Research on Women and Gender

1999

Member,Planning Committee for Archaeology
Organiser, Social Archaeology Colloquium, Anthropology Department
Organiser, Graduate thesis workshop for archaeology
Member, Search Committee for European anthropology position
Member, Search Committee for Near Eastern position in Art History and Archaeology
Member, Search Committee for Bronze Age Aegean position in Art History and Archaeology
Initiation of the Archaeology web site in collaboration with the Media Centre

COURSES OFFERED AT COLUMBIA

Egyptian Archaeology (undergraduate lecture series)
Society and Self in Archaeological Perspective (graduate seminar)
Social Life in Ancient Egypt (undergraduate seminar)
Archaeology and Social Theory (graduate seminar)
Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment (graduate seminar)
Representations (graduate seminar)
Revealing Identities: Politics and Ethics in Archaeology (graduate seminar)
World Archaeology/Global Perspectives(undergraduate capstone course)
Object Lessons (graduate seminar)

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Journal Referee for: Antiquity, Body and Society, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Gender and History, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Journal of Archaeology, Expedition,

Manuscript Referee for: Routledge, Blackwell Publishers, Princeton University Press, Thames & Hudson, Sage Publications, Cambridge University Press

Invited Reviewer for National Humanities Centre, National Science Foundation, National Geographic, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council

Invited Reviewer for the NEH Panel on Museums and Education

Invited Reviewer for MATRIX (Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant) for Archaeological Ethics and Law, funded by the NSF and SAA (http://www.indiana.edu/~arch/saa/matrix/)

Reviewer, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program (IDRF), Social Science Research Council

Long term consultant for Colin Renfrew & Paul Bahn’s book, Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice. Thames and Hudson: London.

Politics of the Past Forum Group, Southampton University, UK

Consultant, The Human Experience, National Public Radio, New Mexico

Consultant for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nova,Discovery, BBC Horizon (UK), Lion TV (UK),

Channel 4 (UK), Optima (UK)

Expert witness, US Attorney’s Office in international trial over the return of cultural property

Organiser, Queer Theory Forum, Oxford University

Member, American Anthropological Association

Member, Society for American Archaeology

Member, Egypt Exploration Society, London

Member, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

REFEREES

Prof. Sherry Ortner Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University, US
Prof. Ian Hodder Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University, US
Prof. Natalie Kampen Dept. of Women’s Studies, Barnard College, US
Prof. Bruce Trigger Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada
Prof. Alison Wylie Dept. of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis, US
Prof. John Baines Oriental Institute, Oxford University, UK
Prof. Rosemary Joyce Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, US
Prof. Roberta Gilchrist Dept. of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK
Prof. Peter Ucko Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK