Field Description
The MA Program in Archaeology at Cornell is designed to provide students with an intensive orientation to the field, appropriate to both students with BA degrees in the liberal arts who have experience in archaeology and those seeking to build a solid foundation for future work or study. The goal of the program is to offer students the intellectual resources and institutional support necessary to prepare them for successful admissions to top tier PhD programs and for careers in the heritage sector.
Cornell archaeology supports a diverse array of interests, ranging from material culture studies to public archaeology, archaeological science to heritage studies, archaeological method and theory and more. Archaeology at Cornell is deeply committed to multidisciplinary studies. Faculty in Archaeology belong to the fields of Anthropology, Classics, History of Art, Landscape Architecture, Near Eastern Studies, City and Regional Planning, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Fiber Science and Apparel Design.
The ideal trajectory toward the MA should result in the completion of all requirements within 12-18 months, although extensions to 24 months are allowed when warranted by a student’s research program.
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Faculty
Annetta Alexandridis
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: Greek and Roman art; gender studies; archaeology and photography; plaster casts
Benjamin William Anderson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
Caitlin Barrett
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: economy and exchange; identity; Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology; visual culture
- Research Interests: classical archaeology; Egyptology
Jeffrey M. Chusid
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Archaeology: museums and heritage
- Research Interests: heritage preservation and management
Ananda Irvena Cohen-Aponte
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: landscape and environment; Latin American and Caribbean archaeology; ritual and religion; visual culture
- Research Interests: Archaeology of colonialism; Andes; historical archaeology; visual and material culture
Magnus Fiskesjo
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: intercultural engagement; museums and heritage; politics and complexity; South and East Asian archaeology
- Research Interests: state formation; core-periphery dynamics; religion and sacrifice; museums and heritage; East and Southeast Asia
Frederic Wright Gleach
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Latin American and Caribbean archaeology; materiality; museums and heritage; North American archaeology; visual culture
- Research Interests: archaeology of colonial contexts; museums and material culture; technology studies; history of archaeology; North Africa and the Caribbean
Kathryn L Gleason
- Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: landscape and garden archaeology; design history; conservation of archaeological sites
Jillian L Goldfarb
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: archaeological science
- Research Interests: Archaeological Science
Denise Nicole Green
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: materiality; museums and heritage; visual culture
- Research Interests: ethnography, video production, archival methods and curatorial practice, fashion, textiles, and visual design, first nation communities of North America
John Stanley Henderson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: intercultural engagement; Latin American and Caribbean archaeology; politics and complexity; visual culture
- Research Interests: complex societies; settlement patterns; ceramics; New World, especially Mesoamerica
Kurt Jordan
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: economy and exchange; North American archaeology; politics and complexity
- Research Interests: Iroquois archaeology and history, historical archaeology of indigenous peoples, colonialism and cultural entanglement
Lori Khatchadourian
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
Sturt W. Manning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: Aegean, Cypriot and East Mediterranean prehistory; classical archaeology; dendrochronology; radiocarbon dating; climate change and history
Christopher M. Monroe
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: Bronte Age trade and economics, maritime Archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology
Lauren Monroe
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: ancient Israelite social history; history of Israelite religion; Syro-Palestinian archaeology; history of the composition of the Hebrew bible
Verity J. Platt
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests:
Eric Rebillard
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: Roman history, Lake Antiquita, Early Christianity
Alison Katherine Rittershaus
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology; museums and heritage
- Research Interests: Mediterranean archaeology Museums and heritage
Nerissa Russell
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: European and Near Eastern prehistory, Zooarchaeology and role of animals
Adam T Smith
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology
- Research Interests: ancient Eurasia and the Caucasus, Archaeological theory
Matthew C. Velasco
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Archaeology: archaeological science
- Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, Andean archaeology, mortuary practice, stable isotope analysis, paleopathology, Taphonomy, cranial modification, ethnogenesis