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Departmental Information
Program Director (Art History and Archaeology)
Prof. Joanna S. Smith
755 Schermerhorn
854-4723
jss245@columbia.edu
Center for Archaeology Program Coordinator (Center for Archaeology)
Carola Garcia Manzano
961 Schermerhorn Extension
854-1390
cm2418@columbia.edu
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology
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Terence D’Altroy
Richard Fairbanks
William V. Harris
Natalie Kampen (Barnard)
Stephen Murray
Esther Pasztory
Nan Rothschild (Barnard, emerita)
Marc Van De Mieroop
Associate Professors
Zainab Bahrani
Holger Klein
Kristina Milnor (Barnard)
Joanna S. Smith
Assistant Professors
Francesco Benelli
Zoe Crossland |
Assistant Professors (continued)
Francesco de Angelis
Severin Fowles
Feng Li
Adjunct Professors
Brian Boyd
Pamela Jerome
Walter Pitman
John Stubbs
Norman Weiss
George Wheeler
Lecturer
Nikolas Bikirtzis
Clarence Gifford
Ellen Morris
Jill Shapiro
Deborah Vischak
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Archaeology is the study of material culture to understand the past as well as the present. Any investigation of the past through the study of material remains involves the people, histories, and deep sequences that antiquity offers. Study of the past through the present also entangles it with historiography, politics, and individual identities. Archaeology has come to mean many things to different generations of scholars, from culture histories, to social processes, to social relations, yet it is always grounded in the physical remains of the past and their implications.
At Columbia, archaeology is a multidisciplinary field practiced by faculty and students in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. At present, there are faculty in the departments of Anthropology, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Historic Preservation, History, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Women’s Studies (Barnard, the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who conduct research on prehistory, ancient society, or historical archaeology.
Among locations in which students and faculty are conducting or participating in field programs are Argentina, Peru, Central America, the North American Southwest, New York City, upstate New York, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Yemen, and South Africa. Archaeologists at Columbia also work with professionals at a wide range of institutions in New York. Among the institutions at which students in particular programs may conduct research or work on internships are the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of the American Indian, the New York Botanical Garden, and the South Street Seaport Museum.
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