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On September 22nd, 2017 archaeologist and anthropologist, Prof. Jason De Léon met a panel of CIAMS students and faculty to discuss his ongoing Undocumented Migration Project and his award-winning 2015 book, “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.” Just two weeks after visiting us at Cornell, Jason was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, also known as a Genius Grant, in recognition of his important, multidisciplinary research. The challenges, rewards, and necessity of such boundary-pushing work was the focus of our discussion.

On September 15th, 2017, archaeologist Lisa Nevett from the University of Michigan met a panel of CIAMS graduate students (Kathleen Garland, Tyler Wolford, Blake Taylor, Danielle Vander Horst, and Sophia Taborski) and faculty (Profs. Caitlin Barrett and Astrid Van Oyen) to discuss two of her works on Classical household archaeology. The first is "Seeking the domus behind the dominus in Roman Pompeii: artifact distributions as eidence for the various social groups," which appeared as the fifth chapter in Prof. Nevett's 2010 book from Cambridge University Press, Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity. The second reading is Ärtifact assemblages in Classical Greek contexts: toward a new approach," which appeared in Household Studies in Complex Society: Micro-Archaeological and Textual Approaches. This volume was published by the University of Chicago Oriental Institute in 2015.

On May 4, 2017, archaeologist Felipe Rojas from Brown University met a panel of CIAMS students (Jenny Carrington, Kathleen Garland, Rebecca Gerdes, Jessica Plant, and Sophia Taborski) and faculty (Ben Anderson, host) to discuss being mountain in Ancient Anatolia.

On October 14, 2016 University of Minnesota archaeologist Steve Kosiba met a panel of CIAMS students (Kelli Breeden, Andrew Crocker, Perri Gerard-Little, Katie Jarriel, and Sam Sanft) and faculty (Adam Smith, host) to discuss materiality, constructions of value, and placemaking among the Inka.