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In Memoriam: Susan Downey
April 22, 2025
Susan Downey, a longtime UCLA art history professor and core faculty in the Cotsen Institute, passed away on Feb. 11, 2025 in Yucaipa, California, at the age of 86. Read more here.
Introducing the Summer Cultural Heritage Program
April 17, 2025
The Cultural Heritage Summer Program is a 4-week immersive experience for undergraduate and city college students, especially those interested in or preparing to transfer to undergraduate program or...
New Publication: The Kahramanmaraş Valley Survey by Elizabeth Carter
February 24, 2025
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press is proud to announce the publication of The Kahramanmaraş Valley Survey: A Crossroads Along the Syro-Anatolian Frontier by Elizabeth Carter, Professor...
‘Preservation for the People’: Uplifting Black history, stories and voices
February 7, 2025
The new podcast from UCLA and the Black Art Conservators group is featured in the UCLA Newsroom. Read more about the podcast and Cotsen affiliates behind it here.
Waystation Initiative Awarded $350k NEH Tier II Research and Development Grant
February 3, 2025
The Waystation, an initiative dedicated to advancing ethical stewardship and return of cultural heritage, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for...
Jason De León wins 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction
December 2, 2024
UCLA professor Jason De León has won the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his book “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”  Read more about the book and...
CIOA Press Publication Wins G. Ernest Wright Award at ASOR
November 19, 2024
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is proud to announce that author Glenn M. Schwartz has received the G. Ernest Wright Award at this year’s American School of Oriental Research’s (ASOR)  annual...
Remembering Merrick Posnansky
October 22, 2024
I was searching for a meaningful future when I left Stanford for UCLA in the Winter of 1965. I had majored in history at Stanford, finishing with an honors thesis on the history of the caucus system...
In Remembrance of Merrick Posnansky
October 8, 2024
By Philip de BarrosOctober 3, 2024Professors attract students for many reasons – for their area of study, their genius, their expertise, their charisma, their publications or because they are...
Job Post: Associate/Full Professor, Classical Archaeology
September 30, 2024
The Department of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been authorized to make an appointment to a full-time position in Classical Archaeology at the rank of Associate or Full...
First Certificates in Cultural Heritage Research, Stewardship, and Restitution Awarded
August 23, 2024
In a recent milestone, Lucha Martínez de Luna, Maryan Ragheb, and Mary Anastasi—the first graduate students enrolled in UCLA’s Cultural Heritage Research, Stewardship, and Restitution program—have...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Response to UCLA Leadership's Failure
May 7, 2024
The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology condemns the violent acts committed against the students, staff, and faculty who were part of the peaceful protests from April 30 to May 2. The university’s...
Cotsen Institute celebrates 50th anniversary
April 11, 2024
A special luncheon was held on March 10 to honor the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. An introduction to the event was made by Director Jason De León,...
Jason De León authors book on human smuggling
April 5, 2024
Soldiers and Kings, Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, Viking Press, is the latest book authored by Jason De León, director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and professor of...
Conservation program awarded $1 million Mellon Foundation grant
March 25, 2024
A $1 million grant has been awarded to UCLA’s Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation, administered by the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology....
Postdoc Fellow Maria Diletta Pubblico studies intricacies of votive animal mummies
February 29, 2024
Animal mummies have long been neglected by scholars, even though they make up one of the largest categories of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But Maria Diletta Pubblico thinks there is valuable...
Digging, diving and discovering stories untold
February 27, 2024
Cotsen core faculty Justin Dunnavant featured in University of California news article "Digging, diving and discovering stories untold." Read the full article here.Image credit: Dunnavant on a dive ...
AIA Honors Charlie Steinmetz
February 2, 2024
Charlie Steinmetz, long-time supporter of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (CIoA) at UCLA, has been honored with a 2024 Martha and Artemis Joukowsky Distinguished Service Award for his dedication...
Cotsen affiliates share research at annual AIA Meeting
January 24, 2024
Faculty and staff from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology shared their research and expertise at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago from January 4-7.  ...
A Look at the Cotsen Conservation Program at 20
January 17, 2024
Founding of the ProgramFrequently the image of a conservator involves someone carefully retouching an ancient painting. But the field of conservation can be much broader, according to those who are...
Now hiring: UCLA/Getty Conservation Tenure-Track Open Rank Professorship in Organic Materials Conservation
January 12, 2024
The UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage is pleased to announce a new faculty position in our program in the conservation of organic materials....
Now hiring: Assistant Professor in the Conservation of Native American/Pacific Islander Cultural Heritage
December 21, 2023
The UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage is pleased to announce a new faculty position in our program, Assistant Professor in the Conservation of...
Introducing Visiting Conservation Researcher Ana Carolina Delgado Vieira
December 4, 2023
Working on a sandwich doctorate in conservation at UCLA has nothing to do with choosing rye over wheat for Ana Carolina Delgado Vieira. Rather, the Brazilian conservator from the Museum of...
Jeanne Arnold Honored with Bench at TreePeople Park
October 24, 2023
UCLA professor emerita Jeanne Arnold has been honored with a memorial bench in Coldwater Canyon Park as part of TreePeople’s bench and tree dedication program. Arnold, who passed away in November,...
An Interview with Jason De León
October 12, 2023
When Jason De León stops moving, he likes to look forward. Beginning November 1, he will have a new vantage point as Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA (CIoA). The professor of...