Department Head and Professor of Anthropology

MICHAEL L. GALATY, Ph.D.

Department Head and Professor of Anthropology

Interim Director, Cobb Institute of Archaeology

MississippiStateUniversity

Department of Anthropologyand Middle Eastern Cultures

Cobb Institute of Archaeology

P.O. Box AR

Miss. State, MS39762

E-mail:

Phone: (662) 325-7525

Education

•Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May, 1998.

•M.A. degree in anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May, 1994.

•B.A. degree with Honors in anthropology, GrinnellCollege, Grinnell, Iowa. May, 1991.

Interests

•European prehistory, specifically the Iron Age and earlier in Greece and Albania.

•Origins of complex societies, especially early states.

•Regional analysis and archaeological survey.

•Chemical and petrographic analysis of ceramics.

Grants and Awards

•winner of the Society for American Archaeology’s 2014 Scholarly Book Award, for Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (Cotsen, 2013). Annual competitive award given each year “to honor a recently published book that has had, or can be expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research.”

•as co-primary investigator (with A. Papathanasiou), an International Collaborative Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in the amount of $35,000.00 to support the summer 2014 field season of The Diros Project.

•as primary investigator, a Senior Archaeology Research Grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS1220016) in the amount of $162,249.00over three years, to fund the Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), an interdisciplinary regional studies project, including archeological and geological survey and excavation, focused on the Shkodra Plain in northern Albania.

•winner of the 2012-2013 Millsaps College Sabbatical Award. Covers in full the cost of a full-year sabbatical.

•as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $23,000.00 from the National Geographic Society for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece.

•as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $18,000.00 from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2012.

•as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $20,000.00 from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2011.

•from the Millsaps College Faculty Development Committee $2000.00 in 2010 and 2011 to help fund the Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), and in 2012 to help fund The Diros Project.

•winner of the 2010 “Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award” from the Archaeological Institute of America.

•as primary investigator, “Acquisition of laser ablation for ICP-MS and a handheld XRF for the W.M. Keck Center for Instrumental and Biochemical Comparative Archaeology, Millsaps College”, $384,535.00, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation program (BCS0922855). Beginning October 1, 2009.

•from the School for Advanced Research (through a grant from the National Science Foundation), funds to support a “Research Team Short Seminar” at the school’s campus in Santa Fe, NM in February 23-26, 2010. The seminar brought together the Shala Valley Project’s eight principal investigators to discuss final publication of results.

•from the journal Internet Archaeology (through a grant from the Mellon Foundation), $6600.00 to support digital archiving (by the Archaeology Data Service, York, UK) of all data produced by the Shala Valley Project and to support production of an interactive, on-line journal article. February 1-April 30, 2009.

•Millsaps College 2007-2008 “Distinguished Professor Award”. $5000.00 prize given annually to the tenured member of the faculty who best “serves as an inspiring example of teacher, scholar, and mentor.”

•as co-primary investigator, a grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation in the amount of $818,200.00 ($400,000.00 from Keck, $418,200.00 institutional matching funds) to establish the W.M.KeckCenter for Instrumental and Biochemical Comparative Archaeology. Beginning January, 2008.

•as primary investigator, a Senior Archaeology Research Grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS0713730) in the amount of $76,988.00, to fund the 2007 field season of the Shala Valley Project, an interdisciplinary regional studies project employing methods of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic survey, focused on the tribal cultures of Northern Albania.

•as primary investigator, a Collaborative Research Grant (RZ50715) from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $34,117.00, to fund archival historical research for the Shala Valley Project.

•from the Committee on South East European Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, a Travel Grant in the amount of $2500.00 to attend the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, September, 2007, Zadar, Croatia.

•grants in the amount of $2000.00from theMillsaps College Faculty Development Committeeto fund travel to Pylos, Greece in 2007 and 2008, Iklaina Archaeological Project.

•from the Associated Colleges of the South, $8500.00 to develop an interdisciplinary study abroad program in Albania. June, 2007.

•grants in the amount of $10,500.00 from Millsaps College and various private donors for the Shala Valley Project’s 2006and 2008 field seasons.

•grants in the amount of $20,000.00 from Millsaps College, the American Embassy in Tirana, and various private donors for the Shala Valley Project’s 2005 field season.

•grant in the amount of $2571.00 from the International Visitor Program of the Center in Central Europe and Russia of the Global Partners Project used to bring Mr. Ols Lafe (Albanian Institute of Archaeology) to the United States in January, 2005.

•grants in the amount of $10,000.00 for travel to Tirana, Shkodra, and Shala, Albania, July 11-18, 2004, from the Central Europe/Russia Task Force of the Global Partners Project, the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the American Embassy in Tirana, and Millsaps College (Faculty Development Grant), in order to plan the Shala Valley Project.

•a MillsapsCollege Hearin Fellowship. $4000.00 for work on a review of petrography and clay sources in Mississippi, published in Time’s River, E. Peacock and J. Rafferty, eds., University of Alabama Press. Summer, 2004.

•winner of the 2003 Millsaps College Outstanding Young Faculty Award, presented annually to the non-tenured faculty member who has contributed most significantly in the categories of teaching, research, and college service. $1000.00 and a one-semester leave from teaching (Spring, 2004).

•a MillsapsCollege Hearin Fellowship. $4000.00 for work on a review of European settlement pattern studies for the Journal of Archaeological Research. Summer, 2003.

•as co-primary investigator, $196,500.00 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to construct a “Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology” (CGMA). CGMA aims to establish a pan-Mediterranean Geographic Information System and will serve as a platform for instructing students in methods of archaeological regional analysis. Grant administered by primary investigators P. Foss and R. Schindler, DePauwUniversity.

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•from the Central Europe/Russia Task Force of the Global Partners Project, a grant in the amount of $2400.00 for travel to northern Albania to begin work on a documentary film about the life and travels of Rose Wilder Lane, July 21-28, 2002.

•from the Mississippi Humanities Council, October 1, 2001, $6500.00 to organize a conference on the relationship between the humanities and sciences, entitled “Bridging the Great Divide: Robert S. McElvaine’s Eve’s Seed and the Quest to Bring Together Biology, Anthropology, Religion, and History,” Millsaps College, March 2, 2002.

•as co-primary investigator for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant (RZ-20575), project funds totaling $452,210.00 ($60,000.00 outright, $101,589.00 federal matching, $209,621.00 cost sharing) over three years, May, 2000-April, 2003. Grant administered by primary investigator J. Davis, University of Cincinnati.

•from the Robert and Dee Leggett Foundation, $288,144.00 over three years for archaeological and biological research to be carried out on the property of the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, Loudoun County, Virginia. Beginning January, 2000.

•MillsapsCollegeFaculty Development Grants. Awarded by the MillsapsCollegeFaculty Development Committee. $2500.00 contributed to the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project, used to fund travel for two student research assistants, in 2001 and 2002, and one student research assistant in 2003; $2500.00 contributed to the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project’s Apollonia necropolis mapping program, March, 2000.

• Millsaps College Faculty Travel Grants,awarded annually by MillsapsCollege:$1350.00 in 2010; $1300.00 in 2009; $1200.002000-2008, 2011-2012;$1000.00in 1999; and $850.00in 2003.

•as co-primary investigator for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project’s 1999 field season, research grants totaling $73,600.00 from the Louise Taft Semple Foundation of the University of Cincinnati, the National Geographic Society, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Grants administered by primary investigator J. Davis, University of Cincinnati.

•National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. $9025.00 awarded 01 September 1997 for project entitled “The Application of Archaeometric Ceramic Data to Questions of State-Level Organization: A Case Study from Messenia, Greece.”

•Professional Development Grants. $400.00 awarded by the University of Wisconsin, WashingtonCounty, in both February, 1997 and 1998.

•Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Travel Award, December, 1996.

•University of Wisconsin Graduate School Travel Grant. Awarded by Department of Anthropology, November, 1995.

•Recipient of Ralph A. Luebben Prize given to Grinnell graduate with most potential for future achievement in anthropology.

Research Experience

August, 2013-present. Senior Research Associate, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, MississippiStateUniversity. Interaction with Junior and Senior Research Associates, participation in the meetings and deliberations of the Cobb Institute.

2010-present. Co-director (with L. Bejko, University of Tirana, Albania) of the Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), an interdisciplinary regional studies project targeting the plain and hills surrounding the northern Albanian city of Shkodra.

2009-present. Co-director (with P. Karkanas, W. Parkinson, G. Papathanasopoulos, and A. Papathanasiou) of the Diros Project, a regional research project centered on the Neolithic site at AlepotrypaCave in the Mani, Greece.

2007-present. Consultant to the Iklaina Archaeological Project. Assisting M. Cosmopoulos (project director) in the petrographic and chemical analysis of Bronze Age ceramics and clays from the site of Iklaina and the surrounding region.

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1998-present. Consultant to the Körös Regional Archaeological Project. Assisting W. Parkinson (project director) in analysis of early Copper Age (Tisza-Polgar culture) ceramics from the Great Hungarian Plain, including petrographic analysis, and in analysis of the soil chemistry of the Vésztõ-Bikeri early Copper Age site.

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2004-2008. Co-director (with O. Lafe and Z. Tafilica) of the Shala Valley Project (SVP), an interdisciplinary regional studies project employing methods of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic survey, focused on the tribal cultures of Northern Albania.

Internet: All of the SVP’s data are archived by the Archaeology Data Service at

1998-2003. Fieldwork Director for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project. Full-coverage, fully diachronic, intensive surface survey in the vicinity of the site of Apollonia, located in south-central Albania. Responsible for organizing field operations. Granted three year operating permit from the AlbanianAcademy of Sciences and the Institute of Archaeology, Tirana. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Louise Taft Semple Foundation of the University of Cincinnati, MillsapsCollege, the National Geographic Society, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. MRAP was featured in the April, 2000 (Vol. 197, No. 4) issue of National Geographic magazine in the Geographica section.

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2000-2005. Co-director (with W. Lee) of the LoudounValley Historical Archaeology and Ecology Project (LVHAEP). Archaeological research on the property of the Blue RidgeCenter for Environmental Stewardship, Loudoun County, Virginia. Archaeological survey of c. 1000 acres in the Blue Ridge mountains, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, near Harpers Ferry, WV. Test excavation of an Antebellum farmstead. 2001-2003 and 2005, site of the Millsaps College/University of Louisville Archaeological and HistoricalFieldSchool.

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July, 1998-May, 1999. Senior Research Associate, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, MississippiStateUniversity. Interaction with Junior and Senior Research Associates, participation in the meetings and deliberations of the Cobb Institute.

Summers 1993, 1994, 1995. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. Participation in regional-scale survey of Messenia, Greece. Included extensive mapping work with a Sokkia total station.

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August, 1994-December, 1996. Paid appointment to the Department of Classics as project assistant to Dr. John Bennet, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Use of various information management systems for control and manipulation of regional survey data.

January-May, 1991. Paid research assistant to Dr. Jon Andelson, GrinnellCollege. Demographic analysis of Amana Colony family structures.

January-May, 1991. Research assistant to Dr. Kathryn Kamp, GrinnellCollege. Classification and computer cataloging of Sinagua clay figurines. Unpaid position.

Summer, 1989. GrinnellCollege Archaeological FieldSchool. Flagstaff, Arizona. Six-week excavation of a five-room Sinagua pueblo and participation in on-going survey of the CoconinoNational Forest.

Fall semester, 1989. GrinnellCollege study program in London and Greece. Included extensive travel throughout Britain and Greece, with visits to major archaeological sites in both countries.

Publications (* denotes peer-reviewed publication)

Monographs

*Galaty, M., O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafilica. 2013. Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Review: R. Witcher, Antiquity, Volume 88 (340): 692-694. Available at:

Review: G. Zaro, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 120(3). Available at:

Review: I. Blumi, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Volume

Galaty, M. 1999. Nestor’s Wine Cups: Investigating Ceramic Manufacture and Exchange in a Late Bronze Age “Mycenaean” State. British Archaeological Reports International Series #766. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Review: P. Thomas, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 108(1): 115-116.

Edited Volumes

*in prep. Final report of the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), being edited by J. Davis and M. Korkuti. Responsible for authoring several chapters: description of the survey region; research in the necropolis; test excavations.

*D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson. 2016. Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange. Special section of Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. Volume 29(1).

*W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty. 2013. Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece. Special “Forum” section for theAmerican Journal of Archaeology. Volume 117(3).

*Galaty, M., D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2011. Redistribution in Greek Bronze Age Societies. Special “Forum” section for the American Journal of Archaeology. Volume 115(2).

*W. Parkinsonand M. Galaty. 2009. Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.

Review: O. Dickinson, European Journal of Archaeology, Volume 14(3): 499-503.

Review: M. Hummler, Antiquity, in the “New Book Chronicle,” Volume 84: 1220-1231.

Review: A. Vianello, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Volume 21: 159-161.

Review: J. Smith, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2011.05.44. Available at

Review: C. Shelmerdine, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 115(3). On-line publication.

Review: E. Schortman, Journal of World-Systems Research, Volume 17(2):532-537. On-line publication.

*Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 2007. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Monograph #60. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

Review: D. Nakassis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008.07.57. Available at

Review: G. Walberg, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 113(2): 293-294.

Galaty, M., and C. Watkinson. 2004. Archaeology Under Dictatorship. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

Review: A. Simmons, American Anthropologist, Volume 108(2): 414-415.

Galaty, M., L. Franey, V. Freeman, E. Griffin, E. Smith, and J. Jordan. 2004. Readings in the Liberal Studies. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

*Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 1999. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea. Monograph #41. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

Review: T. Palaima, The London Times Higher Education Supplement, June 9, 2000: 31.

Review: J. Rutter, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 105(2): 345.

Review: N. James, Antiquity, Volume 74(2000): 224.

Articles and Book Chapters

*Duwe, S., T. Parsonsand M. Galaty. in press. Mineralogical and Chemical Characterization Analyses. For Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by W. Parkinson, A. Gyucha, and R. Yerkes. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

*Hardy, M., M. Galaty, R. Salisbury, R. Yerkes, and D. Billingsley. in press. Soil Chemistry Surveys in the Körös Region. Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by W. Parkinson, A. Gyucha, and R. Yerkes. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

*Galaty, M. in press. Mycenaean Glocalism: Greek Political Economies and International Trade. For a volume on Trade and Civilization, edited by K. Kristiansen. Cambridge University Press.

M. Galaty. in prep. Mycenaean Cook Pots: A North American Perspective. For From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, edited by D. Trusty and J. Hruby, Oxbow Books.

Pullen, D., M. Galaty, W. Parkinson, W. Lee, and R. Seifried. in prep. The Diros Project, 2011-2013: Surface Survey and Site Collection in Diros Bay. For a volume on Alepotrypa Cave, Mani, Greece, edited by A. Papathanasiou.

*Ruka, R., M. Galaty, D. Riebe, R. Tykot, I. Gjipali, and G. Phillipakis. in prep. pXRF analysis of obsidian artifacts from Albania. For Journal of Archaeological Science.

*M. Galaty. in prep. Prestige-Goods Economies: The Prehistoric Aegean and Modern Northern Highland Albania Compared. For Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honor of John F. Cherry, edited by A. Knodell and T. Leppard. Monographs in Mediterranean Prehistory.

*73) Scott, C., M. Galaty, T. Ward, and C. Kokel. 2016. Soil Chemical Analysis at Iklaina. For The Political Geography of a Mycenaean District. The Archaeological Survey at Iklaina, edited by M. Cosmopoulos, pp. 77-92. Library of the Archaeological Society at Athens.

*72) M. Galaty. 2016. The Mycenaeanisation Process. For Beyond Thalassocracies. Understanding Processes of Minoanisation andMycenaeanisation in the Aegean,edited by E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella, pp. 207-218. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

*71) I. Mazzini, E. Gliozzi, M. Galaty, L. Bejko, L. Sadori, I. Souli Marche, R. Kochi, A. Van Welden, and S. Bushati. 2016. Holocene Evolution of Lake Shkodra: Multidisciplinary Evidence for Forgotten Landscapes in Northern Albania. Quaternary Science Reviews30: 1-11

*70) M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2016. Introduction to Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29(1): 61-70.

69) Xhyheri, S., S. Bushi, and M. Galaty. 2015. Një Furrë për Prodhimin a Glazurës në Bylis. Iliria 37 (2013): 263-274.

68)Shehi, E. and M. Galaty. 2015. Gjashtë Pjesë Kallëpe Kupash me Zbukurime në Reliev nga Durrësi. Iliria37 (2013): 185-206.

67) Galaty, M., D. Pullen, W. Parkinson, and R. Siefried. 2014. Mycenaean –scapes: Geography, Political Economy, and the Eastern Mediterranean World System. In PHYSIS: L’ Environment Naturel et la Relation Homme-Milieu dans le Monds Égéen Protohistorique, edited by G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont, pp. 449-456. Aegaeum 37. Peeters: Leuven-Liege.