Willeke Z. Wendrich
PROFESSOR
Ph.D., Leiden University, 1999
Office: Fowler A331
Phone: (310) 206-1496
Fax:
310-206-4723
E-mail:
wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
308 Charles E Young Dr. North
A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510
UCLA Appointments
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
Research Interests
Social context of crafts organization and specialization, ethnoarchaeology, practical use of symbolic space, visual archaeology and the study of regionality versus long distance contacts.
Research Summary
Since 2002 field work concentrates on the Fayum oasis, a cooperation between UCLA and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). Through a regional and diachronic study of the settlement patterns, water and field systems the project sets out to understand the development of agriculture and its role in sustenance and political power play. In conjunction with the field seasons the UCLA/RUG team teaches field schools for the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. This project followed eight years of field work at the Greco-Roman harbor town of Berenike.
Additional Links
Fayum Project
Berenike Project
Ancient Apprenticeship
Mobile People
Egyptology at UCLA
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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