Brian Park
Department of Anthropology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
email: bpark@umail.ucsb.edu
Research Interests:
The archaeology of ancient Egypt and Nubia. I am intersted in issues relating to imperialism and culture contact. Within this broad interest in culture contact I want to examine how people on borders construct their cultural identities.
Education:
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
B.A. Anthropology June 2002 summa cum laude (archaeology of ancient Egypt)
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Currently working on my master's in the MA/Ph.D. program in anthropology with a focuss on Egyptian archaeology.
Honors and Awards:
2004 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2003 (UCSB) Pre Site Visit Grant
2002-07 (UCSB) Doctoral Scholars Fellowship
2001 (UCLA) Alumni Grant
2000-02 (UCLA) Roth Scholarship
2000 (UCLA) Alumni Scholarship
2000 (UCLA) Alumni Grant
Fieldwork:
2004 (UCSB) 4th Cataract Survey - Dongola, Sudan
Field Assistant
2003 (SAIC) Rincon Point Excavation (CRM) - Santa Barbara, California
Field Technician
2001 (UCLA) UCLA-RUG Fayum Project - Fayum, Egypt
Field Assistant
1996 (University of Notre Dame) End of the Dinosaurs Project - Fort Peck, Montana
Field Assistant
Teaching Experience:
2004 Winter Anthropology 3: Introduction to Archaeology
Teaching Assistant
2004 Spring Anthropology 5: Introduction to Physical Anthropology
Teaching Assistant
Monitoring:
7/21/03 Storrer Environmental Services: El Capitan (Santa Barbara County)
7/25/03 Storrer Environmental Services: Point Conception (San Luis Obispo County)
Labwork:
2003 (SAIC) Rincon Point Excavation (CRM), Santa Barbara, California
I was responsible for sorting materials collected at Rincon Point.
2000-01 (UCLA) Berenike Project
Laboratory research assistant: I was responsible for catalogueing the photographic finds from the Berenike site.
1996 (UCLA) Askut Project
Laboratory research assistant: I was responsible for drawing various ceramic artifacts from the Askut Fort.
Papers:
2002 (UCLA Conference) Wep-waut in Westwood, Ancient Egypt at UCLA: Ancient Egyptian Architecture and Use of Space
I delivered a paper 'Beyond Heretics and Politics: How domestic architecture reveals social interaction at Amarna.'
