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[email protected] Hilary Gopnik http://oglanqala.net/ facebook: NaxArchaeology Current Position: Co-Director, Naxçivan Archaeological Project Senior Lecturer/Principal Scientist, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2000 Major: West Asian Archaeology Minor: Archaeology of the Levant Thesis: The Ceramics of Godin II (Supervised by T. Cuyler Young Jr.) Awards: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship; Ontario Graduate Fellowship; Graduate Studies Travel Grants; Junior Scholar Stipend, Achaemenid History Workshop VIII, Ann Arbor, Michigan M.A., University of Toronto, 1985 Major: Near Eastern Archaeology Awards: Ontario Graduate Fellowship; Graduate Studies Travel Grants B.A., First Class Honours, McGill University, 1982 Major: Anthropology Minor: Classics Honours Thesis: Systems Theory in Archaeology (Supervised by Prof. Bruce Trigger) Awards: James McGill Award; University Scholar; Faculty Scholar; Award for highest achievement in Prof. Bruce Trigger's "History of Archaeological Theory" Foreign languages: Modern: French (fluent), Italian, German, Azerbaijani (reading, spoken) Ancient: Akkadian, Greek PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MIT Summer Institute in Materials Science and Material Culture, 2004. Intensive post-doctoral seminar in the scientific study of material culture. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK 2016–2017, Ceramicist, Pasargadae Research Project, Pasargadae, Iran, directed by Sébastien Gondet, CNRS 2014–2015 (ongoing), Co-Director, Naxçivan Archaeological Project Directed two seasons of excavation in the Şerur valley, Naxçivan to investigate the transition from nomadic pastoralism to urbanism in the Middle Bronze to Early Iron Ages in the South Caucasus Co-PI on a successful $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to fund the project Coordinated and supervised the work of a team of up to 20 American faculty and graduate students and 30 local workers 2008–2013, Associate Director, Naxçivan Archaeological Project Supervised four seasons of excavation at the site of Oğlanqala, Naxçivan, an Iron Age to Hellenistic citadel/palace. Co-applicant (with PI Lauren Ristvet) on a successful $246,000 National Science Foundation Grant to fund the project Ceramicist responsible for recording and analyzing all ceramic material from the site and survey 2001, Area Supervisor, Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey, directed by D. Stronach, University of California, Berkeley 1989, Area Supervisor, Tell 'Atij, Syria, directed by M. Fortin, Université de Laval 1985, Ceramic Analyst, Tell el Maskhuta, Egypt, directed by J.S. Holladay Jr., University of Toronto Hilary Gopnik/ 2 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Books (author) On the High Road: The History of Godin Tepe, Iran. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum and Mazda Press, 2011. Naxçıvanda Arxeoloji Tədqiqatlar/Archaeological Investigations in Azerbaijan (With Veli Bakhshaliyev and Lauren Ristvet). Naxçivan: Milli Elmlər Akademiyası, 2013. Books (editor) Editor/Compiler, Godin Tepe Web Archive, https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/26556 Editor, A View From the High Road: Essays in Near Eastern Archaeology in Honour of T. Cuyler Young, Jr., Canadian Society of Mesopotamian Studies, 2005. Editor, Korea Around 1900: The Paintings of Gisan, by Christina H.Y. Han. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 2006. Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Tempus Interruptus: Archaeological Explanation and the Unraised Columns of Oğlanqala Period III.” In Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: Rethinking Temporality and Community in Eurasian Archaeology, edited by K. Weber et al. Leiden: Brill, 2017. “A view from the east: The Godin VI Oval and the Uruk Sphere” with Clemens Reichel, Leah Minc, and Rasha Elendari. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2016. “In the Nick: Space and Time in the Borderlands of Oğlanqala.” Borders and Boundaries: Changing Landscapes in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Anatolia and the South Caucasus, edited by L. D'Alfonso and K. Rubinson. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. “The Medes.” Chapter 2, In The Dynastic History of Ancient Iran, edited by Touraj Daryee. Irvine CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies, forthcoming “The Origins of Political Complexity in Naxçıvan” (with Lauren Ristvet and Veli Baxşaliev). In Austausch und Kulturkontakt im Südkaukasus und seinen angrenzenden Regionen in der Spätbronze-/Früheisenzeit , edited by G. Mehnert. Halle: Beier, 2013, pp. 281-290. “2010-2011 American-Azerbaijani Excavations at Oğlanqala” (with Lauren Ristvet and Veli Baxşaliev). In Naxçıvan İlk Yaşayış və Şəhərsalma Yeri Kimi, Naxçıvan: Әcəmi, 2012, pp. 39-65. “On the Edge of Empire: 2008 and 2009 Excavations at Oğlanqala, Azerbaijan.” (with Lauren Ristvet et al.). American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 116, No. 2 (April 2012), pp. 321-362. “Unearthing Iran’s Prehistory.” ROM Magazine, Winter 2011. “Why Columned Halls?” In The World of Achaemenid Persia. London: British Museum Press, 2010, pp. 195– 207. “2008 Excavations at Oğlanqala.” Azerbaijan Archaeology and Ethnography 2, 2009, pp. 189–195 (with Lauren Ristvet and Veli Baxşaliev). “Archaeological Research at Oğlanqala.” Archaeological Research in Azerbaijan 2008, pp. 140–143 (with Lauren Ristvet and Veli Baxşaliev). “The Shape of Sherds: Function and Style at Godin II.” Iranica Antiqua 40, 2005, pp. 249–270. “Pasargadae.” Encyclopaedia Iranica (with David Stronach). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2003. “The Ceramics from Godin II in the Late 7th to Early 5th Centuries BC.” In Continuity of Empire: Assyria, Media, Persia, History of the Ancient Near East Monograph Series. Edited by G. Lanfranchi and M. Roaf. Padova, Italy: S.a.r.g.o.n. Editrice e Libreria, 2003, pp. 249–267. “Death and Taxes in the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs.” In Death and Taxes in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Sara E. Orel. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992, pp. 61–86. Hilary Gopnik/ 3 WORKS IN PREPARATION/UNDER REVIEW “Hard, red, and shiny: Eastern-Sigillata inspired pottery in the South Caucasus.” (with Susannah Fishman) to be submitted to AJA. Excavations at Oğlanqala 2008–2011 (with Lauren Ristvet). Monograph. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, in preparation. Right Good Men (I think): Median Society in the First Millennium BCE. Book in preparation. Saying No! Dissent and revolt in the Ancient World. Edited volume of articles on resistance to imposed authority in the ancient world. Cambridge University Press has expressed interest pending manuscript review. SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS “Views of Points: VGA Analysis and Intervisibility in Iron Age Columned Halls.” Paper presented in the Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to the Near East Session, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2015. “Triangle Ware Revisited…Again.” Paper presented at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2015. “The Godin VI Oval and the Uruk Sphere.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin, 2015. “In the Nick: Creating Space/Time Borders at Oğlanqala.” Paper presented by invitation at Borders in the Archaeology of Pre-Classical Anatolia and the South Caucasus scholarly colloquium at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, 2014. “Achaemenid Bases and the Hellenistic Tradition.” Paper presented by invitation at the Eighth Annual Melammu Conference, Kiel, Germany, November 2014. “Mixing and Matching: Hybridity at Oğlanqala, Azerbaijan.” Paper presented at the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Basel, Switzerland, June 2014. “Attic Bell Bottoms: Nostalgia and Innovation at Oğlanqala Period III.” Paper presented by invitation in the special session Basileus, Sebastos, Shah: Archaeologies of Empire and Regional Interactions in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2013. “A Peripheral Center Wannabe: The Unfinished Building of Oğlanqala Period III.” Paper presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2012. “Talk about fitful and unruly: temporality in archaeological explanation.” Paper presented at the Fourth Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, Cornell University, Ithaca, 2012. “Empire on Edge or on the Edge of Empire? The Unfinished Building of Oğlanqala Period III.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Memphis, 2012. “Right Good Men? Median society in the 9th to 7th centuries BCE.” Paper presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2010. “Why Columned Halls?” Paper presented by invitation at The World of Achaemenid Persia Conference (in conjunction with the major British Museum exhibition Forgotten Empire: the World of Ancient Persia). The British Museum, London, 2005. “Function and Style at Godin Tepe Period II.” Paper presented at The International Congress on the Iron Age in the Iranian World. Ghent University and the Royal Museums of Art and History, Ghent, 2003. SELECTED PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS Archaeological Institute of America, Ingholt Lecturer (2011–2012) and Graham Lecturer (2013–2014) Selected by the AIA to deliver a series of public lectures across the United States and Canada including popular talks on my research on Godin Tepe and the unfinished Hellenistic palace at Oglanqala. Hilary Gopnik/ 4 “It isn’t Just ISIS: Cultural Destruction in the Near East.” Public presentation for the Carlos Museum public lecture series, January 2016. “Getting