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Dr. Laura Popova
Honors Faculty Fellow Tempe, AZ 85287 |
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Classes:
HON 171 – The Human Event: Part 1 (Fall 2007) MW - syllabus TTH - syllabus
HON 272 – The Human Event: Part 2 (Spring 2008) MW - syllabus TTH - syllabus
Office Hours (Fall 2007) Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30am-12:30pm and by appointment
Office: Irish A 232 Email: Laura.Popova@asu.edu
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Recent Publications:
Pastoralism in the Late Bronze Age in Russia: Past Interpretations and New Goals for Future Research. In Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Edited by D. Peterson, L. Popova, and A. Smith. Colloquia Pontica Series. Brill, Leiden, 2006, pp. 459-468.
The Samara Valley Project: Late Bronze Age Economy and Ritual in the Russian Steppes (with David W. Anthony, Dorcas Brown, Emmett Brown, Audrey Goodman, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Pavel Kosintsev, Oleg Mochalov, Eileen Murphy, Anne Pike-Tay, Arlene Rosen, Nerissa Russell, and Alison Weisskopf). Eurasia Antiqua 11, 2005, pp. 395-417. See complete CV (pdf) |
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Study Abroad: Summer 2008 will be the first time Barrett Honors College offers a Study Abroad Program to beautiful RUSSIA. Click here for more information. Registration ends February 4th! Click here to register. |
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Current Interests: My dissertation (Political Pastures) rethinks the practice of pastoralism during the Bronze Age (3,300 – 1,300 BC) in Russia by examining the construction, maintenance, and abandonment of pastures using archaeological and paleobotanical methods. Currently, my research focuses on the politics of pastoral land use, past and present, highlighting the ways in which the socio-political, ecological, and cultural orders of pastoral societies shape and restructure global and local environments.
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Upcoming Publications:
A New Historical Legend: Tracing the Long-Term Landscape History of the Samara River Valley. In Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Edited by Laura M.S. Popova, Charles Hartley and Adam T. Smith, Forthcoming (2007), Cambridge Scholars Press.
Blurring the Boundaries: Uncovering the Complex Interactions between Foragers and Pastoralists in the Volga-Ural Region. In Monuments, Metals, and Mobility: Trajectories of Complexity in the Late Prehistory of the Eurasian Steppe. Edited by Bryan Hanks and Kathryn Linduff, Forthcoming (Cambridge University Press)
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Recent Research Projects:
Joint Russian-American excavation of Kibit 1, a Late Bronze Age settlement in the Kamishla Region. Samara, Russian Federation. Directors: Laura Popova, Pavel Kuznetsov, and Oleg Mochalov. (2004)
Joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian States (ArAGATS) Republic of Armenia. Paleobotanical Specialist and Field Assistant. Directors: Adam T. Smith, Ruben Badalyan. (2005, 2003)
Joint Russian-American Samara Valley Archaeology Project. Samara, Russian Federation. Paleobotanical Specialist and Field Assistant. Directors: David Anthony, Pavel Kuznetsov, and Oleg Mochalov. (2001, 2000, 1999)
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Academic Foci: Old World Archaeology (Eurasia) Archaeological Theory Paleobotanical Analysis Contemporary Social and Political Theory Landscapes and Political Ecology
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NEWS!!! The 3rd University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference is scheduled for May 1-4, 2008. Theme: Regimes and Revolutions - Power, Violence, and Labor in Eurasia between the Ancient and the Modern. Register by December 31, 2007 at http://acc.spc.uchicago.edu/eurasianconference/Registration.html |
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Links:
University of Chicago Eurasian Archaeology Conference Samara State Pedagogical University European Association of Archaeology Society for American Archaeology American Anthropological Association
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