Southeast
Asia Archaeological Research and Training Program
University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW)
has been awarded a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation as part of its
new Initiative on East Asian
Archaeology and Early History. The UW received the largest of
four awards made to institutions in North America
in 2006 under this initiative.
The UW program is focused on the archaeology of Southeast
Asia and directed by Dr. Peter Lape, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology
and Curator of Archaeology in the Burke Museum. With
investment from the Henry Luce Foundation and the UW, this program will
dramatically increase the level of research, training, mentoring and public
awareness of archaeological heritage in the region. This four-year program
began in fall 2006 and will build both North American and Southeast Asian
capabilities to protect and explore Southeast Asia’s archaeological heritage.
Our program includes:
- New Tenure-Track Faculty Position in
Southeast or East Asian Archaeology. We welcomed Benjamin
Marwick to our program in March 2008, after he finished his PhD at the
Australian National University. His research uses models from evolutionary
ecology to analyze past human behavior in mainland Southeast Asia and
Australia.
- Graduate Fellowships in SE Asian
Archaeology that consist of 3 three-year packages plus pilot research
funds at the UW
Archaeology Program, next round of applications due December15, 2008, click here for application procedures
- International Archaeology Speaker
Series to bring specialists in Southeast Asian archaeology and
comparative perspectives to University
of Washington.
- Joint University of
Washington-Southeast Asian Archaeology Field Training and Mentoring
Program in Southeast Asia with funding for six Southeast Asian
students per year for three years, jointly taught by American and
Southeast Asian instructors, plus self-funded spaces for American and
other international students, as well as a mentorship program to help
Southeast Asian students and junior scholars with career development,
first field school in January-March 2009 in Indonesia. Click here
for information.
- Museum Training and Exchange Program includes
one-year
Museum Fellowships for students from Southeast Asian countries to
study Museology at the
University of Washington; plus
funding to send University of
Washington students and faculty to Southeast Asian museums for exhibit and
collections management projects, beginning in 2008
- Cultural Heritage Law Program provides
one-year Cultural Heritage Law Fellowships leading to a Masters in Law
(LL.M.) and new courses that will provide advanced training for Southeast
Asian lawyers in archaeological site protection and antiquities trade law
at the UW Asian Law
Center beginning in 2008
- Library Digitization and Training
Project to preserve and increase access to regional archaeological
literature to international scholars and provide digitization training and
equipment to Southeast Asian librarians, directed by the UW Libraries Southeast
Asia Section
Please contact Peter
Lape for more information
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