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Elizabeth G. A. Fagan

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Elizabeth is a dual-degree Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, in the History and Anthropology Departments, focusing on ancient history and archaeology. She has been a member of Project ArAGATS since the 2006 field season, excavating at both Gegharot and Tsaghkahovit while pursuing her own research into the Hellenistic- and Roman-period Armenian Highland. Elizabeth’s dissertation examines the strategies of legitimation used by the Armenian dynasts of these periods to create and perpetuate their authority in the context of the shifting sociopolitical relations within Armenia and with its neighbors. Her research interrogates the processes of legitimation by investigating the rulers’ textual and material narratives on coins and inscriptions, and also their spatial practices and dialectical interaction with the landscape. Elizabeth holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and received her B.A. from St. John’s College in New Mexico.