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On May 1st, 2026, Dr. Caroline Cheung (Princeton University) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Nicole Romero, Olivia Graves Ph.D.) and Dr. Rebecca Gerdes (Hirsch Postdoc Fellow) to discuss her work on the dolia makers and menders.

This episode discusses the following book chapter:

Cheung, Caroline. “Precious Pots: Making and Repairing Dolia.” In The Value in Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production, vol. 13, edited by Helle Hochscheid and Ben Russell. Brepolis, 2021.

Dr. Seth Estrin from Harvard University joins a panel of Cornell students, to discuss his most recent book; Grief Made Marble.

A special episode featuring AD White Professor at Large Dr. Lynn Meskell, along with a panel of Cornell Faculty.

On April 22, 2025, Dr. Lauren McCormick (Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton's Center for Culture, Society, and Religion) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Haley Stuckey, Alice Wolff (Ph.D.), and Ruth Portes) and Lauren Monroe (Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies) to discuss her work on Judean Pillar Figurines (JPFs).

The articles discussed in this episode are:

Ben-Shlomo, David, and Lauren K. McCormick. "Judean Pillar Figurines and “Bed Models” from Tell en-Naṣbeh: Typology and Petrographic Analysis." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 386, no. 1 (2021): 23-46.

McCormick, Lauren K. "Paint: A Fourth Dimension of Sculpture." Expedition Magazine, vol. 64 no. 3 (2023): 92-93.

Let there be Light web exhibit: https://laurmcco.github.io/judeanpillarfigurineexhibit/

Dr. Lauren McCormick's podcast: https://laurmcco.github.io/judeanpillarfigurineexhibit/podcast.html

On October 10, 2024, Nathan Acebo (Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Daniel Osborne, and Julio RuizDiaz) and Kurt Jordan (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University) to discuss his research on Survivance Storytelling in Archaeology.

Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director)

Articles discussed in this conversation:

Acebo, Nathan P. "Survivance storytelling in archaeology." In Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas, pp. 468-485. Routledge, 2021.

Montgomery LM, Fryer TC. "The future of archaeology is (still) community collaboration." Antiquity. 2023;97(394):795-809. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.98

On March 21, 2025, Ellen Morris (Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Quinn Stickley, David Dishman, Li Hayes) and Caitlín Barrett (Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University) to discuss her work on telling the stories of female captives and prisoners of war in the ancient world.

Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes

The article discussed in this episode is titled: "How to tell "moving" stories of female captivity in the ancient world," published in "Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt -- The Crossroads IV." Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague. edited by Mynářová, Jana, Ludovica Bertolini, and Federico Zangani. 2022.

On November 15, 2024, Sarah Beckmann (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, UCLA) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Priscilla Dantas de Moraes, Li Hayes, and Carson Riggs), and Verity Platt (Professor, Department of Classics) to discuss her work on representations of enslaved children in the Roman world.

Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director)

CONTENT WARNING: Listeners are advised that this episode discusses evidence for the sexualization and sexual exploitation of minors, especially enslaved minors.

The articles discussed in this episode are:

Beckmann, Sarah E. "The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco." American Journal of Archaeology 127, no. 1 (2023): 55-83.

and her forthcoming chapter: "Alterity, Enslavement, and Empire in a Roman Genre Sculpture: The Oplontis-Borghese Boy with a Duck" in U. Roth (ed.), Enslaved Childhoods in the Roman Imperial World. Alienation, Accommodation, Approbation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

On October 10, 2024, Nathan Acebo (Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Daniel Osborne, and Julio RuizDiaz) and Kurt Jordan (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University) to discuss his research on Survivance Storytelling in Archaeology.

Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director)

Articles discussed in this conversation:

Acebo, Nathan P. "Survivance storytelling in archaeology." In Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas, pp. 468-485. Routledge, 2021.

Montgomery LM, Fryer TC. "The future of archaeology is (still) community collaboration." Antiquity. 2023;97(394):795-809. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.98

On October 10, 2024, Prof. Nathan Acebo from the University of Connecticut met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rafael Cruz Gil, Daniel Osborne, and Julio RuizDiaz) and Kurt Jordan (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University) to discuss his research on Survivance Storytelling in Archaeology.

Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes

On April 12, 2024, Prof. José Capriles from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Marcela Goeller, Annapaola Passerini, Casey Snyder, and Arnav Tandon) and Jacob Damm (Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow) to discuss his research on the Bolivian Radiocarbon Database.

Podcast Engineer: Nikhil Arolkhar