The Haffenreffer Museum is pleased to announce that Ian Randall has been selected for a Graduate School Interdisciplinary Opportunity Research Fellowship to work with the museum for the 2016-2017 academic year. 

Ian obtained his BA in Anthropology and MA in the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He has excavated and surveyed in both an academic and cultural resource management capacity in the South Pacific, North Africa, Northern Europe, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, and in the United States. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World working on a dissertation on identity processes and material culture in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages on the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean. His eventual goal is to turn this research towards a larger project of community action on heritage management in areas divided by conflict, such as Cyprus. 

Ian will be teaching a course in the Spring of 2017 through the Haffenreffer Museum and the Department of Anthropology on issues of Cultural Heritage, including looting, damage by war, policy, such as NAGPRA and museum acquisitions and deaccessioning, and ethical action involving archaeological and anthropological material. The class will make use of the Haffenreffer's extensive collection.