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Evan Anders Carlson

MA in Anthropology, Columbia University (2010)
BA in Classical and Near Eastern Civilizations, Greek, and Computer Science, Creighton University (2008)


Curriculum Vitae

Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: eacarlsn@ucla.edu

Subfield

Near Eastern Archaeology

Research Interests

Ancient urbanism, power relations, mobility, phenomenology, temporality, spatial theory

Notes

My MA thesis titled "The Mobile Nature of Sedentary Places: A History of Settlements in the Near East" examined early settlements and urban centers as gathering places for different people who lived through changing social identities, conflicts, synergy, and attempts at control that inevitably arise when people inhabit a closely packed, constantly changing space.
The subject of my dissertation research is four new capitals constructed by rulers on virgin soil between the 14th and 13th centuries BCE in the Near East. I intend to examine how people constructed, used and identified themselves through the urban landscape and how that representation was juxtaposed against elite urban constructions.

Publications

Coins of Domuztepe Excavations

Grants and Awards

2012-13 Graduate Research Mentorship
2012 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
2011 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Travel Grant

Advisors

Elizabeth Carter

Conference Presentations

Al Untash Napirisha and Elamite Urbanism in the Late 2nd Millennium BC, Paper presented, ASOR Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2011)
A Constantinian Coin Deposit from the Syro-Anatolian Frontier, Poster presentation, ASOR Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2010)
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