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On May 1st, 2026, Dr. Caroline Cheung (Princeton University) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Nicole Romero, Olivia Graves Ph. D.) and Dr. Rebecca Gerdes (Hirsch Postdoc Fellow) to discuss her work on the dolia makers and menders. This episode discusses the following book chapter: Cheung, Caroline. “Precious Pots: Making and Repairing Dolia.” In The Value in Making: Theory and Practi...

Dr. Seth Estrin from Harvard University joins a panel of Cornell students, to discuss his most recent book; Grief Made Marble.

A special episode featuring AD White Professor at Large Dr. Lynn Meskell, along with a panel of Cornell Faculty.

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: B...

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 c...

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 P...

On November 15, 2024, Sarah Beckmann (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, UCLA) met with a panel of CIAMS-affiliated students (Priscilla Dantas de Moraes, Li Hayes, and Carson Riggs), and Verity Platt (Professor, Department of Classics) to discuss her work on representations of enslaved children in the Roman world. Podcast Engineer: Ruth Portes (CIAMS Assistant Director) CONTENT WARNING:...

On April 12, 2024, Prof. José Capriles from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Marcela Goeller, Annapaola Passerini, Casey Snyder, and Arnav Tandon) and Jacob Damm (Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow) to discuss his research on the Bolivian Radiocarbon Database. Podcast Engineer: Nikhil Arolkhar

On March 22, 2024, Prof. Marine Frouin from Stony Brook University met with a panel of CIAMS students (Kate Bajorek, Rebecca Gerdes, Marcela Goeller, and Alex Symons) to discuss her research on Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating.

On March 8, 2024, Prof. Lindsay Montgomery from the University of Toronto met with a panel of CIAMS students (Amanda Domingues, Arnav Tandon, Marcela Goeller, and Emma Zilke) and faculty (Adam Smith) to discuss her research on the archaeology of collective trauma and colonial violence.

On February 19, 2016, Dr. Barbara Mills (University of Arizona) met with the graduate and undergraduate students taking the course Ceramic Analysis, which is taught by CIAMS professor Lori Khatchadourian. Their discussion of about 45 minutes–which considers how technological style and choice relate to the archaeological analysis of ceramic material–opens below.

As part of the 40th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, on November 3, 2023, Prof. Frank Salomon from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison met with a panel of students (Anna Whittemore) and faculty (Matthew Velasco and Vanessa Gubbins) to discuss his research in the Andes.

On November 2, 2023, Dr. Jacob Damm, from the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS), met with a panel of CIAMS students (Rebecca Gerdes, Liam McDonald, and Jamie Ellis) and faculty (Sturt Manning) to discuss his research on foodways and material identities focusing on case studies in the southern Levant.

On September 22, 2023, heritage consultant and author Robert Bevan met with a panel of CIAMS students (Faridah Laffan, Rafael Cruz Gil and Jaimie Luria, and Rafael Cruz Gil) and faculty (Adam Smith and Lori Khatchadourian) to discuss his book- Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past. The RadioCIAMS Special Series on Heritage Forensics is made possible by a New Frontiers Grant fr...

Archaeologists Darryl A. Wilkinson joins Radio CIAMS to discuss his work in the Andes. Dr. Wilkinson is joined in the podcast by CIAMS members Dr. Matt Velasco, PhD students Anna Whittemore, Rafael Cruz Gil, Marcos Ramos Valdés, and CIAMS M.A. Andrea Mauri.

RadioCIAMS is pleased to present a follow-up discussion from -Frontiers- in Archaeological Sciences 3: Rethinking the Paradigm conference hosted at Cornell University in the Fall of 2022. This discussion was hosted by CIAMS graduate students Rebecca Gerdes and Alice Wolff and included a panel of graduate students and early career researchers, including Rachel Kalisher, Chiamaka Anyanwu, Emily Milt...

On April 21, 2022, archaeologist Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Ece Erlat, Jaimie Luria, and Emily Sharp) and faculty host and CIAMS director Adam Smith to discuss the UNESCO, heritage politics, and the role of archaeology in the construction of heritage. The conversation centered on two works by Professor Meskell: a selection from her 2018 monograph...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In the final episode of our series, we look back on both the SAPIENS series and the conversations we have had here on SAPIENS Talk Back in order to look ahead to the future of...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we continue the discussion that began in episode 7 of season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast, a conversation that examines “repatriation” and what it means for archa...

On March 25, 2022, bioarchaeologist Pamela Geller (University of Miami) met with a panel of CIAMS students (Amanda Domingues, Sophia Taborski, Grace Hermes, Anna Whittemore, and Emily Sharp) and faculty host Matthew Velasco to discuss the politics of human remains, the objectification of bodies in anatomical collections, and the importance of studying the historical contexts that shaped these coll...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we continue the discussion that began in episode 6 of season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast, a conversation that examines “Slavery, Sustenance, and Resistance,” or...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we continue the discussion that began in episode 5 of season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast, a conversation that examines how archaeologists study sacred sites, and...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we welcome the featured guests of Episode 4 of SAPIENS Season 4: Dr. Tiffany Fryer, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton University Society of Fellows...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we welcome the featured guests of Episode 3 of SAPIENS Season 4: Dr. Kisha Supernant, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University...

The Archaeology Centers Coalition and RadioCIAMS present “SAPIENS Talk Back”: eight conversations with students and scholars that expand upon the insights of Season 4 of the SAPIENS podcast entitled “Our Past is the Future.” In this episode, we welcome the featured guests of Episode 2 of SAPIENS Season 4: two co-founders of the Society of Black Archaeologists, Dr. Justin Dunnavant, Assistant Profe...