Eve Harow took a break from the news and spent a few hours digging at one her favorite sites, Herodian. She interviewed archaeologist Amichai Lifshitz to get some context and just enjoyed a beautiful Judean day.
It’s about the moments.

Rejuvenation: Digging It

Welcome to Episode two of the Bridging Voices Podcast! In this episode, PhD student Gerry chats with Afrida, a Masters student, about her work in Bangladesh and what inspired her to become an anthropologist!

Questions? Comments? Let us know at 	bridgingvoicespodcast@gmail.com!

The views are the speakers only and are not a reflection of the creators, podcast team, or associated organizations.

Special thanks to Jon Halverson, our jingle composer!

This episode was edited by Zoe Cascadden-Jassal. This episode's theme was ideated by Gerry Straathof and Afrida Faiza.

Episode 2 - Research, Anthropology and Life of Women in the Bostees

Season 4 Episode 3: Society, Space, and Material Agency in the Northern Lowlands - Interview w/ Dr. Scott Hutson

In the third episode of Season 4, Reese, Diana, and Jose interview Dr. Scott Hutson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky: https://anthropology.as.uky.edu/users/srhuts2

Listen in as Dr. Hutson discusses his research at several sites and along an 18-km ancient causeway in the northern Yucatan Peninsula. He explores how architectural spaces help us understand socio-political interactions, as well as how broadening our ideas about who and what had agency in Ancient Maya culture can help us better understand the materiality of daily life. 

Image Credit: Hutson and Welch (2021) Roadwork: Long-Distance Causeways at Uci, Yucatan, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 32(2), 2021, pp. 310–330

Uncovering the Ancient Maya is a student-run podcast dedicated to bridging the gap between Ancient Maya scholars and a broader public audience interested in the Ancient Maya civilization. The hosts interview archaeologists, art historians, ancient writing scholars, and other experts who specialize in studying the ancient Maya civilization of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. Through their conversations, listeners are introduced to recent research projects about the Ancient Maya, providing us all an opportunity to learn the most up-to-date information about the ancient Maya civilization straight from the experts. The hosts for season 4 are Diana Chavez (Anthropology '25), Reese Santonil (Anthropology '24), and Jose Quintero (Anthropology '25).

S4 Ep3 - Society, Space, and Material Agency (w/ Dr. Scott Hutson)

Wendy Doyon (EUME Fellow 2024/25) talk “Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: Arabic Field Diaries from Egypt and Sudan in the History of Archaeology” was held in the framework of the EUME Berliner Seminar on 15 January 2025. The talk was chaired by Ilona Regulski (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).The seminar was in cooperation with the BEYONDREST Research Group.

In the early part of the twentieth century, the rural community of Quft, Upper Egypt, provided the setting for an ethnographic account of spirit possession among the so-called “fellahin,” a term often associated in popular culture with a traditional and presumably uneducated peasantry from the South of Egypt. Hans Alexander Winkler’s Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt (originally published in 1936) showed the folksy side of village life, but Quft was also home to Egypt’s most elite community of archaeological foremen (rūyasa) known as Quftis, renowned for their advanced knowledge and skills in archaeological excavation since 1895. In this talk, I will present an overview of the Quftis’ historical record as “Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt”: skilled foremen and field technicians whose embodied knowledge lurks behind the monographic publications that make up our body of modern literature about ancient Egypt, the Sudan, and the Middle East. As part of the Quftis’ unpublished written record, the talk will focus on the production of a large archive of Arabic excavation diaries documenting archaeological work in Egypt and Sudan in the first half of the 20th Century. The main corpus of this material includes over 6,500 unique manuscript pages in 73 diary volumes, which form part of archaeological archives at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. These diaries were written by two generations of Egyptian foremen in a mixture of Classical, Cairene, and Upper Egyptian Arabic. The presentation will cover aspects of their collective authorship, dialects, narrative voice, challenges of translation, and trans-archival context.

For more information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/kalender/details/ghost-writers-of-upper-egypt-arabic-field-diaries-from-egypt-and-sudan-in-the-history-of-archaeology


Wendy Doyon: Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: Arabic Field Diaries from Egypt and Sudan in the History of Archaeology

Welcome to Episode three of the Bridging Voices Podcast! In this episode, PhD candidate Patricia talks to Mary Kate about her post-doc linguistic work, deciphering Maya hieroglyphs, and her path to professorship at Mount Royal University!

Questions? Comments? Let us know at bridgingvoicespodcast@gmail.com!

The views are the speakers only and are not a reflection of the creators, podcast team, or associated organizations.

Special thanks to Jon Halverson, our jingle composer!

This episode was edited by Jorja Strickland. This episode's theme was ideated by Patricia Campos Díaz.

Episode 3 - Linguistics and Finding a Passion for Maya Glyphs with Mary Kate and Patricia

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04 29 2025 -  Mandate for all Naval Forces - Who you are in Christ

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.

RadioCIAMS with Ellen Morris

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

RadioCIAMS with Nathan Acebo

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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

RadioCIAMS with Lauren McCormick

Welcome to the Bridging Voice Podcast! This is a podcast run by the University of Calgary Department of Anthropology and Archaeology students.

The views are the speakers only and are not a reflection of the creators, podcast team, or associated organizations.

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien is a platform that promotes the internationalization of research in the humanities and social sciences. It is dedicated to a research agenda that systematically links disciplinary approaches and the expertise of area studies by focusing on entanglements and interactions across national, cultural or regional borders. The Forum invites scholars from all over the world for fellowships and develops transregional communication formats.

The Forum provides scope for collaboration among researchers with different regional and disciplinary perspectives and appoints researchers from all over the world as Fellows. In cooperation with universities and research institutions in and outside of Berlin, it carries out research projects that examine other regions of the world and their relationship to Germany and Europe systematically and with new questions.

The Forum and its research programs, Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Prisma Ukraïna—Research Network Eastern Europe and re:constitution - Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe publish audio recordings of selected events like conferences, workshops, lectures and academies. 

Visit us on www.forum-transregionale-studien.de.

A podcast of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies

Our mission is to probe the critical debates in archaeology in conversation between leading practitioners and the next generation of researchers. In each episode, CIAMS students sit down with a guest speaker to discuss their recent work. The conversations cover a broad range of themes surrounding archaeological practice, theory, ethics, and much more. 
Join us as we delve into the sometimes troublesome, always fascinating world of the human past, explore how it informs our present lives and consider how it shapes our future. Each episode runs for about an hour.

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