Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Joukowsky Award and Paper Prize Winners
Joukowsky Award for Student Research Winners
- Understanding the Role of Climate in the Decline of Angkor by Sierra Bornheim
- A Tale of Two Maladies: The Burden of Helminth Infections in the Era of the Antonine Plague by Orly Richter
- Using Experimental Archaeology to Replicate Han Purple by Selena Yuan
- Who is Achilles?: An Analysis of the Characterization of Achilles in Contemporary Retellings by Eleanor Dushin
- Melons and Mangoes: How Central and South Asian Kings Used Fruits to Showcase their Power by Harshil Garg
- The “Roman” Sensorium: Enslaved Experiences in the Bowels of the Baths of Caracalla by Jonathan Leite
- Identifying Global and Local Ritual Traditions in Roman Provincial Capitals of Hispania by Bailey Franzoi
- Chinese American "Food Heritage": Restaurants and Grocery Stores in “Greater Providence” by Quinton Huang
- Petra at the Joukowsky by Rainey Zimmermann, Janie Merrick, and Oliver Nolan
Archaeology Paper Prize Winners
- The Archaeology of Slavery on Antebellum Plantations by Daniel Kushner
- It Never Rains but It Pours: The Impact of Intraregional Climate Change on the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom Collapse by Brandon Stubbs
- Wood, Clay, and Stone: Navigating Linguistic Complexity and Identity Formation in the Late Hittite Empire by Kelley Tackett
- The Mound-Builders and the Emergence of Archaeology in America by Alexander Harrison
- From Individualization to Europeanization: The Development of Cultural Identity in Medieval Iceland by Paul Martino
- The People’s Pirate: Samuel Bellamy’s Role as a Social Bandit in the Golden Age of Piracy by John P. Mayer
- Tattooing in Moche Culture: Reconsidering the Identity of the Lady of Cao by Aimé Cichero
- Cultural Interactions: Comparing Case Studies at Lattara and Peña Negra by Anna Hundert
- Building the Great Pyramid at Giza: Investigating Ramp Models by Jennifer (Kali) Rigby
- Monsters, Manslayers, and Militant Women in Classical Greece by Rhea Stark
- Matters of Strife & Death: Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora & NAGPRA by Edward A. Cleofe
- Exquemelin Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of Piracy by AJ Mezoff
- When Is a Piano Not a Piano? The West House Piano: A Biography by Rafael Harpo Marchand Jaeger
- The Price of Gold and Loyalty: Parallels and Disparities in the Roles of Royal Women of the Late Bronze Age by Luiza Osorio G. da Silva
- Claiming the Right to Rule through Familiarity: The Epic that Evoked Empires by Christopher Carchedi
- Early Iron Ages in Southern France: Urbanization and Colonial Exchanges in the 7th to 5th Centuries B.C.E. by Zakaria Enzminger
- The Social Pyramid of Food: Dietary Guidelines=Gender Guidelines? by Lauren Warner
- Phoenician Settlement, Production, and Trade in Southern Andalucía by Andrew Waters
- 5,000 Years of History: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Politics in Korea by Christopher Kim
- Sacred Soundscapes: Music, Liturgy, and Architecture in Renaissance Venice by Andrew Smyth
- The Divergent Development of Cyprus in the Early Aceramic Neolithic by Andrew Waters
- The Archaeology of Preferential Memory at Punta Carretas, Montevideo, Uruguay by Valerie Bondura
- A Changing Defense: Roman Impetus for the Evolution of Pompeian Fortification by Benjamin Jones
- Early Chinese Lead-Barium Glass: Its Production and Use from the Warring State to Han Periods (475 BCE-220 CE) by Christopher F. Kim
- Defining Neighborhoods: A Case Study in Pompeii by Catherine Teitz
- House of the Tragic Poet: The Actors Mosaic and the Construction of a Roman Identity by Cecilia Bahamón
- Archaizing Alterations: A Study of the Architecture and Reliefs of the Funerary Complex of Nebhepetra Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahri by Peter Johnson
- The Uses of Buddhism in Colonial and Post-colonial India: Examining Contestation Around the Site of Bodh Gaya by Kirstin Krusell
- Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques and More: Saudi Arabia’s Treatment of the Past in Relation to Urban Heritage and Concepts of Modernity by Valerie Bondura
- A True Controversy: The Trial of Marion True and Its Lessons for Curators, Museum Boards and National Governments by Jacob Combs
- Clandestine Curses: Hidden Dangers to Charioteers by Anya Eber
- Interpreting Difference through Different Interpretations: Ethnohistories at Plimoth Plantation by Tyler Rogers
- Mother Goddess, Male World, Myriad Social Classes: The Cult of Cybele’s Impact on Phrygian Culture by Hannah Sisk
- Priestess and King: Representations of Power and Gender in the Akkadian Royal Family by Megan Boomer
- The Effect of Structure and Tonal Quality on the Aulos’s Role in Accompaniment of Ancient Greek Sport by Vincent Pham
- Pillagers and Plunderers: An Archaeological and Theoretical Approach to Piracy in the Islands of the Mediterranean From the Balearics to Cyprus; and its Suppression from Ramesses to Pompey by Whit Schroder
- Hammurabi Decoded: Kingship, Legitimacy, and Royal Monuments by Harry Anastopulos
- Function and Meaning in Moche Human Sacrifice: Advancing Theory and Practice in Archaeology by Benjamin Bright-Fishbein
- Asserting Political Authority in a Sacred Landscape: A Comparison of Umayyad and Israeli Jerusalem by Nathan Karp
- Dining with Death: An Analysis of Attic White-ground Lekythoi and Athenian Notions of the Afterlife in Classical Greece by Maia Sian Peck
Ancient Art
- The Hand of Daedalus by R. Ross Holloway
- The Master of Olympia: the Documentary Evidence by R. Ross Holloway
- The Tomba delle Leonesse and the Tomba dei Giocolieri at Tarquinia by Sonia Amaral Rohter
Italian Pre-History
- The Classical Mediterranean, its Prehistoric Past and the Formation of Europe by R. Ross Holloway
- Ustica: Report on the Excavation of the Bronze Age Site of I Faraglioni 1999 by R. Ross Holloway and Susan S. Lukesh
- The Muculufa Master and Reconsiderations of Castelluccian Sequences by Susan S. Lukesh
Numismatics
- The Dating of the Coinage of Alexander the Great by Zoë Sophia Kontes