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UCLA Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program

John Papadopoulos
Chair
310) 794-9179
jkp@humnet.ucla.edu

Cheri Quinto
Program Coordinator
310) 825-4169
cquinto@ioa.ucla.edu

Mailing Address
Archaeology Program
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
UCLA
308 Charles E. Young Dr. North
A148 Fowler Building/Box 951510
Los Angeles, California 90095-1510
Fax: (310) 206-4723

 

UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

Ioanna Kakoulli
Chair
(310) 794-4915
kakoulli@ucla.edu

Amber Cordts-Cole
Program Coordinator
310) 825-9407
acordts@ucla.edu

Mailing Address
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
UCLA
308 Charles E. Young Dr. North
A410 Fowler Building/Box 951510
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510
Fax: (310) 206-4723

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