Congratulations to Brown University's Class of 2026! Read all this year's brilliant, creative, insightful, kind, fun graduates in Archaeology and the Ancient World, and in Egyptology and Assyriology: view.publitas.com/brownarchaeo...

Tomorrow, 4/24: "A Celebration of Faculty Books in the Humanities." Join us for a celebration of the vibrancy of humanities research at Brown that spotlights the many books published this past year. Featured writers include Myles Lennon and Andrew Scherer. Sponsored by @cogutinstitute.bsky.social.

REMINDER: Applications for Fellowships, Public Scholars, Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan, and Awards for Faculty at HBCUs are now open! Deadline to apply is April 22. Learn more at neh.gov/grants or go to grants.gov to apply.

Our workshop, Archaeological Approaches to Woodland Management, Agroforestry, and Arboriculture in the Ancient World, is underway! It's great to see a full room this morning! JIAAW's Director, Andrew Scherer, started things off with introductory remarks. Schedule at sites.brown.edu/archaeology/...

JIAAW is offering 3 prizes to honor Brown students for writing and research in the current academic year: * ARCH 0001-ARCH 0999 Course * ARCH 1000-ARCH 2999 Course * Overall winning paper or project DEADLINE: Monday, May 11th, 2026 at Noon FULL GUIDELINES AND ENTRY FORM: go.brown.edu/archaward

Join us tomorrow, April 8, at 5:30 for a lecture by Kirk Maasch and Daniel Sandweiss, both from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. They will discuss what El Niño is, what it does on the coast of Peru, how it has changed through time, and how past societies in Peru reacted to it

Attention Brown University students! Apply for summer fieldwork funding by Monday, April 27! The Joukowsky Institute offers grants to help current first-years, sophomores, and juniors to defray costs of doing fieldwork and archaeological research over the summer. Apply at go.brown.edu/fieldfund2026

We are hiring! Join the ICS as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Roman Archaeology. Are you interested in rethinking Roman frontiers through material culture, heritage practice, and public engagement? Full details here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

On Thursday at 4pm in RIH, David Stuart will be giving a talk titled, "Above and Beyond: Space, Time, and the Language of Ancestor Veneration among the Classic Maya." Read more: events.brown.edu/joukowsky-ar... Free and open to the public. Just ring our new doorbell if you don't have a Brown ID!

Today, 3/31 at 12PM — "Resting the Anatomized Dead: Ethical Entanglements and Unsilencing the Disappeared Dead in Anatomical and Legacy Collections." Part of Anthropology's Spring 2026 Colloquium Series. Presented by Carlina de la Cova, @sc.edu.

Join us Friday, April 10-Saturday, April 11 for Archaeological Approaches to Woodland Management and Agroforestry in the Ancient World. Full schedule and details can be found on the workshop's website: go.brown.edu/woodland2026 Open to all, but pre-registration required: forms.gle/XRfYz9sncR7B...

Erin Pugh has accepted the Brown University Graduate School's offer of admission to the doctoral program in Archaeology and the Ancient World for Fall 2026. Welcome to JIAAW, Erin!

Today, 3-5pm, stop by our Open Collection Hours to see ancient ceramic vessels, lamps, figurines, lithics, sherds, & more. Then Eva Miller's lecture on how the ancient world is used in the American imagination begins at 5:30. And enjoy an exhibit of photos of Egypt, by Akshay Amesur. All in RI Hall!

Coming up tomorrow at noon, JIAAW postdoc Vicki Moses will give this week's Brown Bag Series in Archaeology talk: "Early Rome through Bones: Ancient DNA and Zooarchaeological Evidence in the 1st Millennium BCE." All Brown ID holders are welcome to join us!

Tomorrow at noon, Jordi Rivera Prince, a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Brown, and Annalisa Heppner, City Cemeteries Director for Providence, will present their ongoing research with the North Burial Ground Documentation Project. We welcome all Brown ID holders to join us.

Tomorrow at 4pm, join us for a talk by Steven Wernke: "Colonial Contradictions: An Archaeological Microhistory of Forced Resettlement and Its Legacy in the Andes." The lecture is open to the public, but please enter using the doors facing Brown's Main Green. *Co-sponsored with our friends at CLACS*

Today at 5:30, we're excited to be hosting a talk by Susan Sherratt, Professor Emerita at University of Sheffield. Prof. Sherratt will be discussing The Roles of Silver in the Aegean. The talk is open to the public, with entry to Rhode Island Hall through the entrance doors facing the Main Green

Our first Brown Bag talk of the year will be today at noon, presented by Visiting Scholar, Javier Martinez Jimenez: "Nobody Expects the Spanish Expedition: Trenches, Bombs, and Aqueducts from the Amphipolis Hinterland." We invite all Brown ID holders -- students, faculty, and staff -- to join us.

The Flows of Late Antiquity Managing Water in a Changing World Sat. 2/7, 10-5 This workshop brings together experts on ancient water to investigate the legal, economic, and environmental contexts of hydraulic and hydrological infrastructure from AD 300-600 More information: go.brown.edu/water2026

Congratulations to JIAAW doctoral student Yilmaz Yeniler, who has been awarded a Steinhaus/Zisson Pembroke Center Research Grant for his project, “Archaeological Knowledge at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis between Turkey and Greece.”

Congratulations to Joseph Carrino, a doctoral student in JIAAW's Ph.D. program in Archaeology and the Ancient World, who has been awarded a Research Mobility Fellowship by Brown University's Graduate School! Joe will be using the fellowship to travel to Rome in Spring 2026, for dissertation research

Applications for our Ph.D. program are due ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! Apply at apply.graduateschool.brown.edu/apply For more information on our graduate program, or about applying to graduate school in archaeology, visit archaeology.brown.edu Technical difficulties? Email [email protected]

Join the DigDUG and the History DUG for their final event for the semester: Greek Vase Painting! Come by the Rhode Island Hall Common Room on Monday, December 8th, from 3:30-4:30 PM to decorate miniature pots in a historical style. Feel free to bring your friends for a fun de-stressing activity.

Thursday at noon, Maya Krause, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and the Ancient World, will present her research in an informal lecture titled, “Milk, Maize, and the Empire: Wari Influence on Breastfeeding, Weaning, and Childhood Diet in the Ancient Andes.” Plus pizza!

Join the DigDUG tomorrow from 3-4 pm for a study break in the Joukowsky Common Room. Caffeinate, fuel up on snacks, and meet other students interested in Archaeology!

Thursday at noon, Catie Nuckols, Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of History of Art and Architecture, will present her research in an informal lecture titled, “Burden of Time: A Reconsideration of Full-Figure Glyphs as Carriers of Time.” Plus pizza!

TODAY at 2pm EST FREE WEBINAR: Applying to Grad School in Archaeology Faculty panel includes JIAAW's Director, Andrew Scherer; Director of Graduate Studies, Felipe Rojas; and Shanti Morell-Hart, Director of the Integrated Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences Preregister at tinyurl.com/y2uhcs7n

Tomorrow at noon, Arturo Sáez Sepúlveda, Adjunct Professor in the Academic School of Archeology at the Austral University of Chile, will present his research in an informal lecture titled, “Thinking with Agents: Applications of Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to Archaeological Problems.” Plus pizza!

FREE WEBINAR: Applying to Grad School in Archaeology Friday, Nov. 7 at 2pm ET Pre-registration required: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Get an overview of the graduate application process by the faculty from Brown University’s doctoral program in Archaeology and the Ancient World PLEASE SHARE

The Joukowsky Institute welcomes our newest Faculty Fellows, Michael Satlow (Professor of Judaic and Religious Studies) and Catie Nuckols (International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and Architecture and the Cogut Institute for Humanities) archaeology.brown.edu/people/faculty

Tomorrow at noon, Simone Ciambelli, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Global Research Fellow at Brown’s Department of Classics and Researcher at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, will present an informal lecture titled, “The Agency of Intermediate Bodies in Pompeii: Preliminary Insights.”

TODAY at 5:30, Trinidad Rico speaks on "The Anatomy of “Local Expertise”: Heritage Preservation in Qatar." Rico is Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies at Rutgers. Her talk addresses heritage preservation in Qatar as an example of resistance to a monolithic universal heritage ethos

THIS SATURDAY is Community Archaeology Day! We have 3 great events: - Uncover Archaeology in Rhode Island Hall from 11-3 - College Hill's excavation at List Art Building also 11-3 - North Burial Ground data collection, on North Main, from 1-3 PLUS, sticker books! Collect stickers from all three!

Note the updated time for Roberta Ferritto's talk this evening! Dr. Ferritto will now present her lecture, "Roman Maritime Villas from Southern Latium to the Mediterranean Provinces: Architecture, Environment, and Economy," at 5:30pm in Rhode Island Hall. All are welcome!

Next week is a busy one! Tuesday at 5pm, Roberta Ferritto will be giving a talk on Roman maritime villas. Then, on Thursday at noon, Prof. Emeritus Rolf Winkes will share stories of the early days of archaeology at Brown. And get ready for Community Archaeology Day, coming up next Saturday!

Brown University anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — @ievajusionyte.bsky.social, a cultural and legal anthropologist who leads the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social won an $800,000 grant to advance her work.

"In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded #digital #archives in #archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits..." Read the blog and #openaccess article here: ➡️ https://cup.org/4nQ7gNS #Huhugam @saa-aap.bsky.social#digital

In case you missed this, we have a fabulous evening lined up talking about the importance of research and knowledge. Seems very timely and great to partner with @expeditions.bsky.social and 5x15 ... Do come along. www.5x15.com/events/5x15-...

SIX postdoc jobs (!) going at the new Leverhulme Centre for Space and Humanity at the University of Leicester, directed by @andrewfutter.bsky.social If you're in the social sciences/humanities and working on outer space, have a look!

Join us Thursday, Oct. 16 at noon EDT for a virtual discussion of The Invention of Rum: Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity (Jordan B. Smith, Widener U). This event is part of JCB Reads, a virtual series for former fellows to share recent book publications. Details at jcblibrary.org!

Coming up next week, David Freidel explores Maya-Teotihuacan relations on Tuesday at 4pm; and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez discusses pathogens after contact in Mexico on Thursday at noon. For more details on both, and on other upcoming events, visit our website's events page at archaeology.brown.edu/events

This Thursday, we have the pleasure of hosting Rachel Thimmig. She will be presenting her research in an informal lecture: “Damming the Reservation: Hidden Histories of Salvage Archaeology and Domestic Life on the Great Plains.” 📅 October 2nd ⏰12:00 pm – 12:50 pm 📍Rhode Island Hall, Rm 108

Thursday, 10/2 at 12PM: Rachel Thimmig, a doctoral student in Anthropology, will present her research in an informal lecture entitled, “Damming the Reservation: Hidden Histories of Salvage Archaeology and Domestic Life on the Great Plains.” Sponsored by @brownarchaeology.bsky.social.

🏛️ Join us for Undergraduate Field Reports 🏛 Students will be sharing presentations on their Summer 2025 fieldwork and internships. Hear about their discoveries, challenges, and experiences from digs and projects around the world. 📅 Friday, September 19 ⏰ 4:0 PM 📍 Rhode Island Hall 108 (60 George St)

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, themed "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Apply by October 1, 2025. Read more about the theme, scholars program, and grant details: bit.ly/4mfL4L6 #ResearchFunding #ClassicalArt #ArtHistory

Our Brown Bag Series in Archaeology returns next Thursday at noon! We start the semester with JIAAW's Lorenzo Castellano's informal talk: "Palaeobotanical Approaches to Farming in Ancient Anatolia: Twelve Millennia of Agriculture in Two Centuries of Research." Join us!

Field Dirt 2025: Reports and Results from Brown University’s 2025 Archaeological Field Seasons is this Friday at 3:30pm. Brown’s archaeologists will share highlights from their research. Join us for some good stories, interesting results, and stunning field photos. Free and open to the public.

Summer Fieldwork Update: Professor Parker VanValkenburgh — In July and August, VanValkenburgh conducted archaeological fieldwork in Peru and Brazil and taught workshops on LiDAR data processing in both countries. bit.ly/45i5rSS @brownarchaeology.bsky.social

Why should we care about #archaeology, #monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened? Read Morag M. Kersel's blog for the SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social: ▶️ cup.org/46Ryg9X #culturalheritage #culturalproperty