Category: Publicity

Marston wins 2018 Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching

The Gitner Award is one of three endowed awards given annually by the College of Arts and Sciences to those professors who excel not only in successful classroom teaching, but in the fullest and most comprehensive aspects of the teaching experience. These activities include collaborative scholarship with students, curriculum development, mentoring and advising students and teaching fellows, […]

Marston’s new book featured on CAS News

Check out the latest CAS Newsletter featuring Marston’s new book Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion: Gordion Special Studies 8. Marston examines botanical remains from nine years of excavation at Gordion, synthesizing archaeobotanical works from previous seasons. This book makes Gordion one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East; allowing comparative work for fellow […]

Marston and West featured on “Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology”

Dr. John Marston and Dr. Catherine West, both of Boston University’s Archaeology Department, have been featured on Voice America’s latest archaeology podcast “Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology”. Interviewed by Dr. Schuldenrein, Marston and West discuss how their archaeological research is contributing, not only to questions of the past, but to contemporary and future issues of climate […]

Codlin research profiled by BU Research

Maria Codlin’s research on faunal remains from Teotihuacan is profiled as part of an interactive article on the BU Research website. Scroll down to the section “Meet the students” and click on Maria. She is also featured in a video accompanying the article, available on YouTube as well.

Review of 2015 Wood Charcoal Workshop

Smiti Nathan, doctoral candidate at NYU and participant in the 2015 Wood Charcoal Workshop at BU, writes about her experience on her blog Habits of a Traveling Archaeologist. Her post about the workshop can be found here.