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Lori Khatchadourian

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Lori Khatchadourian is the Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in archaeology and Visiting Assistant Professor in anthropology at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in classical archaeology from the University of Michigan (2008) and an MSc in government from the London School of Economics (1998). Her doctoral dissertation focused on the archaeology of the Armenian highlands during the period of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and is entitled “Social Logics Under Empire: The Armenian ‘Highland Satrapy’ and Achaemenid Rule, ca. 600-300 BC.” Dr. Khatchadourian has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Armenia since 2003 with support from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Program. She spearheads Project ArAGATS’s investigations of the mid-first millennium BC on the Tsaghkahovit plain. Her research interests include the archaeology of empires, social archaeology, historiography, as well as Eurasia and the Near East in antiquity. Her publications have addressed theoretical issues of empire that focus on such themes as the archaeology of hegemony, memory, and landscape, as seen from the Armenian highlands. These publications appear in such volumes as Negotiating the Past in the Past (Arizona, 2007), Empires and Complexity (Cotsen, forthcoming), The Oxford Handbook of Anatolian Studies (Oxford, forthcoming), and Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Blackwell, forthcoming). She also published an article charting the intellectual history of archaeology in the Soviet South Caucasus in a 2008 issue of the American Journal of Archaeology. Prior to becoming an archaeologist, Dr. Khatchadourian worked in the field of international political development in the former Soviet Union under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

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