Katie Kearns (Classics graduate student) won a Fulbright US Student Grant
Katie Kearns, a fourth-year graduate student in Classical Archaeology, will spend the upcoming academic year 2012-2013 in Nicosia, Cyprus, as a recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student grant. She will work at both the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute and the University of Cyprus in an effort to perform field work and collect data and resources for her dissertation, which focuses on the re-emergence and maintenance of political landscapes of Iron Age Cyprus, 1200-700 BCE. By combining archaeological, historical, spatial and environmental data, Kearns will investigate the formation of social boundaries and the constitution of authority in the south-central part of the island, following the collapse of the Late Bronze Age polities.