PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

这个社会和行为科学少数民族博士后研究奖学金将资助一个为期两年的独立研究项目，其目标是促进科学中代表性不足的群体的学术生涯。 拟议的研究有两个主要组成部分：研究不断变化的烹饪技术，并探索合作土著考古学方法的潜力。它涉及土耳其和北美的比较案例研究，在两个地点进行实地考察：土耳其的Catalhoyuk和密歇根州的萨吉诺齐佩瓦印第安人保留地。在每种情况下，目的是更好地了解烹饪用具的生产，使用寿命和社会意义，以及随着时间的推移与之相关的不断变化的做法。在每个地点的检查期间发生了重大的文化变化，研究重点是这些转变是如何反映和/或由不断变化的饮食方式驱动的。在土耳其进行的拟议研究扩展了以前对Catalhoyuk粘土烹饪球的分析，包括对同一地区6个新石器时代遗址的烤箱和炉床的比较研究。由此产生的分析将提供一个严格而丰富的，在安纳托利亚狩猎采集和早期农业社区不断变化的烹饪方式的背景下检查。在密歇根州进行的拟议研究将是与萨吉诺齐佩瓦印第安社区进行新的长期全面奋进的第一阶段。该研究员将组建一个社区团队，并与他们合作开发一个考古研究设计，旨在研究从公元前1000年到现在的密歇根州接触前和接触后的烹饪技术。 在土耳其和密歇根州，项目包括土著考古学部分，通过在这两个地区进行的个案研究来审查协作方法，这些研究将与上文概述的烹饪研究一起进行。其目的是将考古合作的理论模型付诸实践，并衡量其在产生对利益相关者和考古界有用的知识方面的有效性。在土耳其，这涉及与土耳其社区成员，教师和其他利益相关者合作，制定一项长期的社区主导的遗产计划，目的是使Catalhoyuk研究对他们有用。在密歇根州，目的是融合西方和土著认识论，为未来的考古研究制定一个详细的计划，以满足土著合作者和考古科学界。结果将提供比较数据，使用土著合作方法，内部和外部的土著土地基地。有了这个博士后的机会，研究员将产生的数据，形成了许多期刊文章和两本书的基础。完成这些项目对于研究员的长期研究计划的发展至关重要，并将大大推进我的职业目标。霍德博士和斯坦福大学的学术界是研究员在遗产管理、多地点、后殖民和非殖民化理论等领域研究的组成部分，也是拟议研究的关键资源。

This Social and Behavioral Sciences Minority Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship will fund a two-year independent research project with the goal of furthering the academic career of an underrepresented group in science. The proposed research has two primary components: examining changing cooking technologies, and exploring the potential of a collaborative Indigenous archaeology methodology. It involves comparative case studies in Turkey and North America with fieldwork in two locations: Catalhoyuk, Turkey and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation of Michigan. In each case, the aim is to better understand the production, use-life, and social significance of cooking paraphernalia and the changing practices associated with them through time. Significant cultural changes occurred during the time periods of examination in each location, and the study focuses on how these transformations are reflected and/or driven by changing foodways. The proposed research in Turkey expands on previous analyses of clay cooking balls from Catalhoyuk to include comparative examination of ovens and hearths from 6 Neolithic sites in the same region. The resulting analysis will provide a rigorous yet rich, contextualized examination of changing cooking practices of hunter-gatherer and early farming communities in Anatolia. The proposed research in Michigan will be the first stage of a new, long-term fully collaborative endeavor with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian community. The Fellow will assemble a community team, and work with them to develop an archaeological research design that aims to examine pre- and post-contact cooking techniques in Michigan from 1000 BC to the present. In both Turkey and Michigan, projects include an Indigenous archaeology component to examine collaborative methodologies through case studies in both regions that will be carried out in conjunction with the cooking research outlined above. The aim is to put theoretical models of archaeological collaboration into practice, and to measure their effectiveness in producing knowledge that is useful to stakeholders and the archaeological community. In Turkey this involves collaborating with Turkish community members, teachers, and other stakeholders to develop a long-term community-led heritage plan, with the aim of making the Catalhoyuk research accessible and useful to them. In Michigan, the aim is to blend Western and Indigenous epistemologies to develop a detailed plan for future archaeological research that satisfies both Indigenous collaborators and the archaeological science community. The results will provide comparative data for using an Indigenous collaborative methodology, within and outside of an Indigenous land-base.With this postdoctoral opportunity the Fellow will produce data that forms the basis of numerous journal articles and two books. Completing these projects is critical for the development of the Fellow's long-term research plans, and will significantly advance my career goals. Dr. Hodder and the scholarly community at Stanford are integral to the Fellow's research in areas of heritage management, multi-locality, and post-colonial and decolonizing theory, and are critical resources for the proposed research.