Fall/Winter 1998
Helle Girey is the Student Advisor for the Archaeology graduate program	Student News New students welcomed, fellowships for continuing students By Helle Girey Archaeology Graduate Program THE ARCHAEOLOGY GRADUATE PROGRAM OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY IS PLEASED to report that students from the program are producing promising research in many parts of the world. M.A. degrees were awarded this year to Jenny Cashman, Freya Evenson, Laura Gilliam, and Maura Heyn. C. Phil. degrees were conferred on Gwen Bennett ("Late Neolithic in Rizhao, Shandong, China"), Cigdem Eissenstat ("Early Chalcolithic in Mesopotamia"), Terisa Green ("Chumash Ritual in Spanish California"), and Jana Owen ("Maritime Trade in Indian Ocean"). Brendan Burke received his Ph.D. and his dissertation was entitled "From Minos to Midas: The Organization of Textile Production in the Aegean and Anatolia." Six prestigious special fellowships were awarded to Archaeology Progam students for the forthcoming academic year. Gwen Bennett received the Beijing University Fellowship and the Committee for Scholarly Communications with China Fellowship, which will enable her to complete two years of dissertation research in China. Cigdem Eissenstat was awarded the ARIT-Kress Fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey, which will enable her to collect data in Turkey. Rowan Flad was selected for the National Resource Fellowship for Japanese language study from the USC-UCLA joint Center in East Asian Studies. Terisa Green was awarded the Presidential Dissertation Year Fellowship for 1998-1999. Maura Heyn was granted the newly established Research Assistantship/ Mentorship award. Bryan Stone was awarded the Chancellor's Fellowship for outstanding applicants to UCLA. Four new students have been accepted to the Archaeology Program. Eric Bruehl is in classical archaeology, concentrating his interests in Roman archaeology. He is specifically interested in the funerary practices of not only the Romans but also of other ethnic groups in their provinces. He intends to continue participation in excavations in either North Africa or the Middle East. Jennifer Bybee is planning to study diseases and medical practices from ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia has produced a wealth of cuneiform texts that discuss diseases afflicting the Mesopotamians as well as how those diseases were combated. She will combine paleopathological studies of human remains along with textual studies to learn about disease and medicine in Mesopotamia. Sara Rauchle has an interest in the Hellenistic period. Of Greek ancestry, Rauchle has had a long-term interest in Alexander the Great and his successors. Bryan Stone comes to UCLA with an M.A. in Syro-Palestinian archaeology from Harvard. His interests are Bronze and Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean archaeology and the theoretical aspect of the development of complex societies, including the role of symbolism in social discourse. He will try to integrate the short-term perspective on local phenomena afforded by social anthropology with the longer-term perspective of archaeology. Friends of Archaeology Fellowships Awards Announced MARILLYN HOLMES, CHAIR OF THE FRIENDS OF ARCHAEOLOGY FELLOWSHIP Committee, announced the recipients of fieldwork fellowships (with destinations noted): Cynthia Skvorec (Greece), Bill Sapp (Peru), Amanda Cohen (Peru), Emmanuel Benille (Sri Lanka), Mike Hilton (Alaska), Bekir Gurdil (Turkey), Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Illinois), and Freya Evenson (Greece). Helle Girey is the Student Advisor for the Archaeology Graduate Program. She (and all Backdirt authors) can be reached by email through Publications (ioapubs@ucla.edu).
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