Magnus Fiskesjö

Associate Professor

Publications

Books

Interview podcast, on “Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture.” New Books Network / Southeast Asian Studies. Hosted by Nick Cheesman. Recorded Dec. 3, 2022, publ. Jan. 1. 2023: https://newbooksnetwork.com/stories-from-an-ancient-land


•    China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China’s Prehistory.  Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2004.

•    The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo.  Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.

Book Chapters

  • "State Strategies to Implement (and Hide) Genocide in China and Myanmar, Since 2017.” Invited contribution, to Handbook of Genocide Studies, edited by David J. Simon and Leora Kahn. Cheltenham, Glos [England]: Edwar Elgar Publishing, 2023, pp. 123-41. 
  • "Identities and Polities in the Maelstrom of World-System Cycles: The Wa of the Burma-China borderlands." Chapter 25, in Routledge Handbook of the Modern Anthropology of Highland Asia, ed. Michael Heneise and Jelle JP Wouters. London: Routledge, 2022, 339-350. 
  • "Agamben and the Chinese Forced-Confession Ritual." Chapter 2, in Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis, ed.  Nils Bubandt and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 27-47. 
  • "Le Xinjiang chinois, "nouvelle frontière" de l'épuration nationale" [China's Xinjiang: The 'New Frontier' of National Purification]. In: Anne Cheng, ed. Penser en Chine. Paris: Gallimard, 2021, pp. 391-433. Collection Folio essais (n° 669). ISBN: 9782072870927. In French. http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Folio/Folio-essais/Penser-en-Chine

  • "Who's Afraid of Confucius? Fear of Encompassment in the Global Debates over the Confucius Institutes." Chapter 9, in Franck Billé and Sören Urbansky, eds., Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018, 221-245. Open access (2022): 

    https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/81591;                                  http://hdl.handle.net/10125/81591

•    China's Animal Neighbors. The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders. Eds. Martin Saxer and Zhang Juan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2017. 


•    Chinese Autochthony and the Eurasian Context: Archaeology, Mythmaking and Johan Gunnar Andersson's 'Western Origins.' Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: Rethinking Temporality and Community in Eurasian Archaeology. Eds. Kathryn O. Weber, et al. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016, 303-320. (Proceedings from the Fourth Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, 2012).


•    Art and Science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Collectors, Collections, and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges. Ed. Lai, Guolong.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, 67-98.


•    Gifts and debts: The morality of fieldwork in the Wa lands on the China-Burma frontier.  Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia. Ed. Turner, Sarah.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013, 61-79.


•    Science across borders: Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang. In Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, Charles McKhann, and Margaret Swain, eds. Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, 240-66. ISBN: 9780295991177


•    Giorgio Agamben och den kommande gemenskapen [Giorgio Agamben and the coming community]. Sociologik: Tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande [Sociologics. Ten essays on sociality and thought]. Eds. Christian Abrahamsson et al. Stockholm: Santérus, 2011, 53-87. In Swedish


•    The Politics of Cultural Heritage.  Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. 225-245. 2010


•    The Autonomy of Naming: Kinship, Power and Ethnonymy in the Wa lands of the Southeast Asia-China Frontiers.  Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity. Singapore: University of Singapore Press. 150-174. 2009 

 

Webcast events/lectures/interviews, selection:

•    "Heritage and Ancestors: The Politics of Chinese Museums and Historical Memory." Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture/Center for Chinese Studies, University of California-Berkeley, November 6, 2015.

 

Academic Articles, and more:

•    "Cultural genocide is the new genocide." Pen/Opp, May 5, 2020.

•    "Bury Me With My Comrades: Memorializing Mao's Sent-Down Youth." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 16, Issue 14, Number 4 (July 15, 2018).

• "Confessions Made in China." Made in China 3.1 (January-March 2018), p. 18-22; 108-109 (list of references).https://madeinchinajournal.com/2018/05/17/confessions-made-in-china/

•    The Return of the Show Trial: China’s Televised “Confessions.”  Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 15, Issue 13, Number 1. (June 25, 2017). 

•    “The Legacy of the Chinese Empires: Beyond ‘the West and the Rest.’” Education About Asia 22.1 (Spring 2017), 6-10. Special issue on “Contemporary Postcolonial Asia.”

•    “People First: The Wa World of Spirits and Other Enemies.” Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology. Published online: 19 Apr 2017.

•    Self and Subjectivity in a World of Diasporas: Nicholas Tapp's Anthropology of Hmong Identities. Journal of Social Science (Chiang Mai University, Thailand), (Special issue: "Ethnicity and Mobility: Nicholas Tapp's Anthropology," ed. Aranya Siriphon). 28 (2017), 125-148.

•    "Foreword." In Samak Kosem, ed. Border Twists and Burma Trajectories: Perceptions, Reforms, and Adaptations. Chiang Mai: Center for ASEAN Studies, Chiang Mai University, 2016, pp. iii-v.

•    "Lyxkonsumtion och utrotningskrig" [Luxury consumption and wars of extinction]. Kina-Rapport (Göteborg: Svensk-Kinesiska Föreningen) no. 4 (2015), 32-35. (In Swedish; on the Chinese smuggling and trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn from Africa)

•    Terra-cotta Conquest: The First Emperor's Clay Army's Blockbuster Tour of the World.  Verge: Studies in Global Asias.  1 (2015): 162-183.

•    "Universal Museums." Article for "World Heritage" section, ed. Helaine Silverman, in _Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology_. Claire Smith, general editor. New York: Springer, 2014, pp. 7494-7500.

•    "Oscar Montelius and Chinese archaeology." Co-authored with Chen Xingcan. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology [Melbourne, Australia] 24:10 (2014).

•    Wa Grotesque: Headhunting Theme Parks and the Chinese Nostalgia for Primitive Contemporaries .  Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 79 (2014): 497-523.

•    Introduction to Wa Studies.  Journal of Burma Studies 17 (2013): 1 -27.

•    Outlaws, Barbarians, Slaves: Critical Reflections on Agamben's homo sacer.  Journal of Ethnographic Theory.  2 (2012): 161-180.

•    Slavery as the Commodification of People: Wa "Slaves" and Their Chinese "Sisters".  Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.  59 (2011): 3-18.

•    The Reluctant Sovereign: New Adventures of the US Presidential Thanksgiving Turkey.  Anthropology Today.  26 (2010): 13-17.

•    Mining, History, and the Anti-State Wa: The Politics of Autonomy Between Burma and China.  Journal of Global History 5 (2010): 241-264.

•    Participant Intoxication and Self–Other Dynamics in the Wa Context.  The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11 (2010):111-127.

•    Collections of Chinese Antiquities Outside China: Problems and Hopes.  Public Archaeology 5 (2006): 111-126.

•    Rescuing the Empire: Chinese Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century.  European Journal of East Asian Studies 5 (2006): 15-44.

•    A Foreign Bird in a Golden Cage: Sweden's Asia Collections.  Res Publica 65 (2005): 68-80.In Swedish

•    Lost Civilizations, Lost Choices.  Dushu No. 4 (2003), 72-75. In Chinese

•    The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination -- Travellers in Wa Country.  Inner Asia .  4.1 (2002): 81-99.

•    Rising From Blood-Stained Fields: Royal Hunting and State Formation in Shang China. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.  72 (2001): 48-192.

 

Recent reviews:

  • Review of Bertil Lintner, The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest for Global Dominance (Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books: 2021), Journal of Asian Studies 82.4, 759-61. 
  • Review of two books:  by Darren Byler, In the Camps: Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021), and by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, How I Survived a Chinese "Re-education" Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story (New York and Oakland: Seven Stories Press, 2022). Journal of Asian Studies 82.4, 663-665. 
  • Review of Gregory Forth, Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid (New York: Pegasus,2020; 336 pp. ISBN 978-163-936-143-4). Kvartal, 1 dec. 2022. https://kvartal.se/artiklar/har-paabo-fel-ar-vi-inte-ensamma-kvar/ [In Swedish]. 
  • Review of Justin M. Jacobs, The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020; vii, 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-71201-7). American Historical Review 127.3 (Sept. 2022), 1496–1497. Published: 29 November 2022. 
  • Review of John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2021). Kvartal, 11 augusti 2022. https://kvartal.se/artiklar/antirasismen-som-infantiliserar-svarta/  [In Swedish]. 
  • Review of Enze Han, Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019; 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-006078-7). South East Asia Research [Great Britain], Online, 24 Feb 2021. 
  • Review of Jonathan Friedman, PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony (New York: Berghahn, 2019). Kvartal, 8 sept. 2020. https://kvartal.se/artiklar/politiskt-korrekt-ar-ett-maktmedel/

•    Review of Haiming Yan, World Heritage Craze in China: Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78533-804-5). Asian Perspectives 58.2 (2019), 401-404.

•    Review article: "Ancient China reconsidered." Review of Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun, Wei Cao, & Yuanqing Liu, Ancient China and its Eurasian neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000-700 BCE (Cambridge University Press, 2018); Roderick Campbell, Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State: The Shang and Their World (Cambridge, 2018); and Xiaolong Wu, Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China (Cambridge, 2017). Antiquity, Volume 92, Issue 366 (Dec. 2018), pp. 1671-1673.

•    Review of Alice Yao, The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China: From Bronze Age to the Han Empire (Oxford 2016); & Erica Brindley, Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE (Cambridge 2015), for the Zhejiang University Journal of Art and Archaeology (Hangzhou, China), Vol. 3 (2018), 260-272.

•    Review of Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan, eds., Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, Ideas from China are Changing a Region (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2017). ISBN: 9780295999302; 9780295999296. China Quarterly 234 (2018), 577-578.

•    Review of Craig Clunas, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). The Art Newspaper, 295 (Nov. 2017), p. 22.

•    Review of Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces (Stanford 2015). American Anthropologist 118.3 (2016), 685-686.

•    Review of Tamara T. Chin, Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination (Cambridge, 2014). Journal of Asian Studies 75.3 (2016), 806-807.

•    Review of Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, and Jean Michaud, Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22.3 (2016), 750-751.

•    Review of David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing, eds. Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China (Vancouver 2013). Asian Highlands Perspectives 40 (2016), 479-488.

•    Review essay: "The Museum Boom in China and the State efforts to Control History" (on Marzia Varutti, Museums in China: The Politics of Representation after Mao [Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2014]; Kirk Denton, Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory & the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China [Honolulu, 2014]; Amy Jane Barnes, Museum Representations of Maoist China: From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch [Surrey, UK, 2014]. Museum Anthropology Review 9.2 (2015), 96-105.

•    "Hail to the King!" Review of two books by David N. Keightley: Working for His Majesty: Research Notes on Labor Mobilization in Late Shang China (ca.1200-1045 B.C.), as Seen in the Oracle-Bone Inscriptions, with Particular Attention to Handicraft Industries, Agriculture, Warfare, Hunting, Construction, and the Shang's Legacies (Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2012); and The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China, ca. 1200-1045 B.C. (Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000). Early China 37.1 (2014), 567-573. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eac.2014.18

•    Review of Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China. By Grace Yen SHEN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Journal of Asian Studies 73.4 (2014), 1120-1122. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814001259

•    Review of Mandy Sadan, Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma. (Oxford & London: Oxford University Press & the British Academy, 2013; with an accompanying website, "Research Notes: Fieldwork Notes, Photographs and Translations" ). Thailand-Laos-Cambodia [TLC] network/New Mandala Review LXX.  In: New Mandala: New Perspectives on Southeast Asia, May 16, 2014.

•    Review of Michael Oppitz et al, eds. Naga Identities: Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India (Gent: Snoeck Publishers, 2008). Asian Highlands Perspectives 28 (2013): 299-304.

•    Review of Gunnar Skirbekk, Multiple Modernities: A Tale of Scandinavian Experiences (Hong Kong: Chinese Univ. Press, 2011). Journal of World History 24.3 (2013), 707-10.

•    Review of Berma Klein Goldewijk et al, eds. Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2011). Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (2012; iFirst article, pp. 1–3.

•    Review of Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Journal of World History 23.3 (2012), 676-80.  

 

Klarman Hall
201 McGraw Hall
magnus.fiskesjo@cornell.edu

Education

Lund University, Sweden, BA equivalent 1986 (undergraduate studies also at the University of Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen University, Denmark; and Fudan university, Shanghai, China).

Koobi Fora Field School in African Archaeology & Paleoanthropology, 1992.

University of Chicago, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, MA, 1994.

University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, and Dept. of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, joint PhD degree, 2000.

Departments and programs

Links

Sherene Baugher

Professor Emeritus

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2017      Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning: Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States (Sherene Baugher, Douglas R. Appler, and William Moss, editors). Springer, New York.

2014      The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers. (Sherene Baugher and Richard Veit).  University Press of Florida: Gainesville.

2010      Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes (Sherene Baugher and Suzanne Spencer-Wood, editors).  Springer: New York.

2007     Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers, and Community Groups (John H. Jameson, Jr. and Sherene Baugher, Editors).  Springer: New York.

 

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

2021    Discovering Enfield Falls: A Community Initiated Archaeological Heritage Project in Ithaca, New York.  Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage 8 (3): 1-17.

2020    Advances in Gravestone and Cemetery Studies in the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations (Sherene Baugher and Richard Veit).  In The Routledge Handbook of Historical Archaeology, edited by Charles E. Orser, Andres Zarankin, Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Susan Lawrence, and James Symonds, pp: 553-572. Routledge, London, UK.

2020    In Search of the Tutelo Town of Coreorgonel: From Excavation to Creation of a Commemorative Park (Sherene Baugher and George Frantz). The Bulletin, Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association 134: 1-11

2017      Reflections on the New York City Archaeology Program (1980-2016).  In Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning: Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States, edited by Sherene Baugher, Douglas R. Appler, and William Moss, pp: 227-255. Springer, New York.

2017    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Exploring the Relationships Between Community, Archaeological Heritage and Local Government (Sherene Baugher, Douglas R. Appler, and William Moss).  In Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning: Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States, edited by Sherene Baugher, Douglas R. Appler, and William Moss, pp: 1-13. Springer, New York.

2014      Communicating Archaeology: Education, Ethics, and Community Outreach in North America.  In the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, vol. 3, edited by Claire Smith, pp: 1580-1588.  Springer, New York.

2013     The Inlet Valley Project: Reflections on an Early Model for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Service-Learning Courses in Landscape Architecture  (Sherene Baugher and George Frantz).  Landscape Journal 32 (1): 113-130.

2013      John Zuricher, Stone Cutter, and His Imprint on the Religious Landscape of Colonial New York (Sherene Baugher and Richard Veit).  In Tales of Gotham: Historical Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Microhistory of New York City, edited by Meta F. Janowitz and Diane Dallal, pp: 225-247.  Springer: New York.

2013      Confirming Relevance: How American and Canadian Archaeologists are Training Youth and Adults in Archaeology, Heritage Studies, and Community Partnerships. In Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists, edited by John H. Jameson and James Eogan, pp: 105-124.  Springer: New York.

2010      Landscapes of Power: Middle Class and Lower Class Power Dynamics in a New York Charitable Institution.  International Journal of Historical Archaeology 14 (4): 475-497.

2010      Sailors’ Snug Harbor: A Landscape of Gender and Power. In Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes, edited by Sherene Baugher and Suzanne Spencer-Wood, pp: 165-187.  Springer: New York.

2010      The Archaeology of the Matron’s Cottage: A Household of Female Employees at Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York.  Northeast Historical Archaeology 37: 1-20.

2009      The John Street Methodist Church: An Archaeological Excavation with Native American Cooperation. Historical Archaeology 43(1): 46-64.

2009      Benefits of and Barriers to Archaeological Service Learning: Examples from New York.  In Archaeological and Community Service Learning, edited by Michael Nassaney and Mary Ann Levine, pp: 36-58.  University Press of Florida: Gainesville.

2009     Historical Overview of the Archaeology of Institutional Life. In the Archaeology of Institutional Life, edited by April M. Beisaw and James G. Gibb, pp: 5-13. University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa.

2007    Service-Learning: Partnering with the Public as a Component of Archaeology Courses.  In Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers, and Community Groups, edited by John H. Jameson, Jr. and Sherene Baugher, pp. 187-202.  Springer: New York.

2007     A Hierarchy of Poverty: The Life of Retired Seamen at Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York.  Northeast Anthropologist, 73: 69-95.

2007    New York Odyssey: Forging Partnerships in American Archaeological Outreach.  Northeast Anthropologist, 73: 43-60.

2007      The Separation of Church and Site: Old First Church, Middletown, New Jersey (Gerry Scharfenberger and Sherene Baugher).  Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, vol 23: 35-60.

2005       Sacredness, Sensitivity, and Significance: The Controversy Over Native American Sacred Sites.In Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown: Reshaping Archaeological Assessment and Significance, edited by Clay Mathers, Tim Darvill, and Barbara Little, pp: 248-275.University Press of Florida: Gainesville.

2003      What is It?  Archaeological Evidence of Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Drainage Systems.  Northeast Historical Archaeology, vol 30-31: 23-40.

2003      Addressing an Historic Preservation Dilemma:  The Future of Nineteenth-Century Farmstead Archaeology in the Northeast (Terry Klein and Sherene Baugher). Northeast Historical Archaeology, vol 30-31: 167-180.

2002      Archaeological Perspectives on and Contributions to the Study of Colonial American Gardens (Sherene Baugher and Lu Ann De Cunzo). Landscape Journal 22 (1): 68-85

2001      Visible Charity: The Archaeology, Material Culture, and Landscape Design of New York City’s Municipal Almshouse Complex, 1736-1797.  International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 5 (2): 175-202.

2001      Turning Archaeological Problems into Archaeological Assets.In Construction in Cities: Social, Environmental, Political, and Economic Concerns edited by Patricia Lancaster, Edward Plotkkin, Jill Lerner, and M. D. Morris, pp: 135-155.C.R.C. Press: Boca Raton, Florida.

1999      The Indians and New York State: Separate Nations or Ethnic Minorities (Sherene Baugher and Robert W. Venables).  In New York in the 21st. Century, edited by Thomas A.  Hirschl and Tim B. Heaton, pp. 75-93. Praeger: Westport, Connecticut.

1997       Anatomy of an Almshouse Complex (Sherene Baugher and Edward J. Lenik). Northeast Historical Archaeology, vol. 26: 1 - 22.

l997       Ancient and Modern United: Archaeological Exhibits in Urban Plazas (Sherene Baugher and Diana Wall). In Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths edited by John H. Jameson Jr., pp: 114 - 129.  AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek, California.

1987      Ceramics as Indicators of Class and Status in Eighteenth Century New York (Sherene Baugher and Robert W. Venables).  In Socio- Economic Status and Consumer Choices in Historical Archaeology, edited by Suzanne Spencer Wood pp. 31-53.  Plenum: N. Y.

 

Klarman Hall
sbb8@cornell.edu
607/255-1648

Departments and programs

Caitie Barrett

Associate Professor

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

  • Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (2019). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. [430 pp. + 100 figures]
  • Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion (2011). Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 36. Leiden/Boston: Brill. [731 pp. + 80 plates]

EDITED VOLUMES

  • Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison (2015), eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi and A. Muller (editors-in-chief) and C. Aubry, C. Barrett, C. Blume, and T. Kopestonsky (collaborating editors). Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [534 pp.]

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

  • "Magical Gems as Material Texts" (forthcoming). In Textual Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Are We Doing It Wrong?, ed. Y. Heffron. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 
  • "The Valuation of Terracotta Figurines in Domestic Contexts: Reconsidering the Gap between Material and Ritual" (forthcoming). In Stuff of the Gods: The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece, eds. M. Haysom, M. Mili, and J. Wallensten. Athens: Swedish Institute at Athens.
  • "Recontextualizing Nilotic Scenes: Interactive Landscapes in the Garden of the Casa dell’Efebo, Pompeii.” American Journal of Archaeology 121: 293-332. [40 pp.]
  • "Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture" (2017). In G. Williams (ed.), Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-18) [43 pp.]
  • "Archaeology of Ancient Religions" (2016). In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, eds. J. Barton et al. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (http://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-48) [24 pp.]
  • "Avant-propos" (with C. Aubry, C. Blume, S. Huysecom-Haxhi, T. Kopestonsky, and A. Muller) (2015). In Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison, eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi et al., 7-9. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [3 pp.]
  • "Terracotta Figurines and the Archaeology of Ritual: Domestic Cult in Greco-Roman Egypt" (2015). In Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison, eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi et al., 401-420. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [20 pp.]
  • "Harpocrates on Rheneia: Two Egyptian Figurines from the Necropolis of Delos" (2015). In Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée orientale grecque et romaine. II: Iconographie et contextes, eds. E. Laflı and A. Muller, 187-200. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
  • "Material Evidence for Ancient Greek Religion" (2015). In Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, eds. E. Eidinow and J. Kindt, 113-130. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [18 pp.]
  • "Hellenistic and Roman Egypt" (2015). In D.L. Clayman (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. New York: Oxford University Press. [87 pp.]
  • "The Perceived Value of Minoan and Minoanizing Pottery in Egypt" (2009). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.2: 211-234. [24 pp.]
  • "Was Dust Their Food and Clay Their Bread? Grave Goods, the Mesopotamian Afterlife, and the Liminal Role of Inana/Ishtar" (2007). Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7: 7-65. [59 pp.]

OTHER ARTICLES, BRIEF ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND ENTRIES IN MUSEUM CATALOGS

  • “Casa della Regina Carolina, Regio VIII.3.14” (2020). K.L. Gleason, C.E. Barrett, and A. Marzano. Fasti Online (http://www.fastionline.org/excavation/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_4667&curcol=sea_cd-AIAC_10402). 
  • Multiple entries (2018) in Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, eds. J. Spier et al., 250, 252–253, 272, 276-277, no. 174. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. 
  • "Figurines" (with E. Darby) (2016). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, 344-346. New York: Routledge. [3 pp.]
  • "Harpokrates" (2016). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, 388. New York: Routledge. [1 p.]
  • "Gems" (with V. Platt) (2015). In Cornell Collection of Antiquities, ed. A. Alexandridis and V. Platt (http://antiquities.stg.library.cornell.edu/gems). [3 pp.]
  • "Plaster Perspectives on 'Magical Gems': Rethinking the Meaning of 'Magic' in Cornell's Dactyliotheca" (2015). In Cornell Collection of Antiquities, ed. A. Alexandridis and V. Platt (http://antiquities.stg.library.cornell.edu/gems/plaster-perspectives-on-magical-gems). 
  • "Terracotta Figurines of Harpocrates from Greco-Roman Egypt" (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview/harpocrates-figurines). Online exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [4 pp.]
  • "'Campana' Relief with Roman Nilotic Landscape" (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview/campana-relief-roman-nilotic-landscape). Online exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [3 pp.]
  • "Egyptianizing Graeco-Roman Objects" (with C.M. Manassa) (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs, pp. 15-16 [print edition]. New Haven: Yale Peabody Museum. Exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [2 pp.]

INVITED BOOK REVIEWS

  • Review (2013) of M. Trümper, Die 'Agora des Italiens' in Delos: Baugeschichte, Architektur, Ausstattung und Funktion einer späthellenistischen Porticus-Anlage. Journal of Hellenic Studies 133: 116-117. [2 pp.]
  • Review (2012) of B. Rabe, Zwischen Entwurf und Produkt: Die griechisch-römischen Gipsformen aus Ägypten im Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Coroplastic Studies Interest Group Book Reviews (http://www.coroplasticstudies.org/reviews-rabe.html).

NOTES, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

  • "Nilotic Scenes, Egyptian Religion, and Roman Perceptions" (2013). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5: 3-5. [3 pp.]
  • "Recent Research in Greco-Egyptian Interactions" (2012). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 4:4. [1 p.]
  • "Egyptian Imagery in Hellenistic Bulgaria: Lamps from the Thracian City of Seuthopolis" (2010). CSIG News: Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 4: 17. [1 p.]
  • "Religious Syncretism in Egyptianizing Terracotta Figurines from Delos" (2009). CSIG News: Annual Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 1: 10. [1 p.]

 

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PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology Subfield), Yale University, 2009

BA in Anthropology (Archaeology Subfield), summa cum laude, Harvard University, 2003

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Mediterranean archaeology, Greek and Roman archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, Egypt under Ptolemaic and Roman rule, archaeology of religion and ritual, household archaeology, household religion, connectivity, cross-cultural interactions, Hellenistic period, Roman empire, Hieroglyphic Egyptian language, Pompeii

 

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