Department of Anthropology

Susan E. Allen

Field Service Assistant Professor
458 Braunstein Hall
513-556-5787
susan.allen@uc.edu

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Education

Ph.D., Boston University, 2005 (Archaeology).

M.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1998.

Research Interests

Topical: Environmental anthropology / archaeology; origins of agriculture; social complexity; wetlands; climate change; sustainable practices; ethnobotany / palaeoethnobotany; archaeological ethics. Geographical: Southeastern Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, Eastern and Midwestern U.S.

Research Support

(PI) Susan E. Allen, Wetlands and the Transition to Agriculture in Europe: The Southern Albania Neolithic Archaeological Project, National Science Foundation. (BCS-091760); $191,806.00. Date: 09/09/2009 to 08/31/2012. Status: Active.

(PI) Susan E. Allen; John Wallrodt, Southern Albania Neolithic Archaeological Project, Packard Humanities Institute. (06-1366); $22,697.00. Date: 2006 to 2008. Status: Active.

Susan E. Allen, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, "A Living Landscape: Palaeoethnobotanical Research at the Bronze and Iron Age Site of Sovjan, Albania", Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. (6987); $15,027. Date: 2002 to 2005.

Susan E. Allen, Agricultural Origins in the Southeastern Balkans, Fulbright Fellow (Lecturing / Research), Tirana University, Tirana, Albania. approx. $15,000. Date: 2006 to 2007.

Peer Reviewed Publications

C. Runnels, E. Panagopoulou, P. Murray, G. Tsartidou, S. Allen, K. Mullen, and E. Tourloukis. 2005. "A Mesolithic Landscape in Greece: Testing a Site Location Model in Kandia (Argolid)." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 18: 259-295.

E. Panagopoulou, C. Runnels, P. Murray, S. Allen, K. Mullen, and E. Tourloukis. 2005. "The Mesolithic Survey in the Kandia Region (Argolid)." Arkhaiologika Analekta ex Athenon 35-38: 23-36.

G. Touchais, P. Lera, O. Décavallas, E. Fouache, J. Rénard, S. Allen, and B. Szepertysky. 2004. "Travaux menés en collaboration avec L'École française d'Athènes en 2002. Sovjan (Albanie)." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 127(2): 578-609.

Julie M. Hansen and Susan E. Allen. 2011. "The Palaeoethnobotany of Early Helladic Tsoungiza." in Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill, edited by Daniel Pullen. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies.

P. Lera, G. Touchais, P. Lera, L. Astruc, O. Décavallas, A. Gardeisen, G. Kourtessi-Phillipakis, J. Rénard, S. Allen, and B. Szepertysky. 2001. "Travaux menés en collaboration avec L'École française d'Athènes en 2000. Sovjan (Albanie)." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 125(2): 716-730.

S. Pollock, R. Bernbeck, S.E. Allen, A.G. Castro Gessner, S. Kielt Costello, R. Costello, M. Foree, M.Y. Gleba, M. Goodwin, S. Lepinski, C. Nakamura, and S. Niebuhr. 2003. "The Biography of an Early Halaf Village." Istanbuler Mitteilungen 53(9-77).

2012. Allen, S.E. "Archaeobotany." In Galaty, M.L., Z. Tafilica, C.T. Fisher, W.E. Lee, A. Gyucha, R. Schon, Chapter 10, Grunas, pp. 223-227. In Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania. UCLA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

Book Chapters

Susan E. Allen. 2002. "Yarmukian Palaeoethnobotany: Preliminary Results." pp. 236 – 246 in Sha’ar Hagolan: Neolithic Art in Context, edited by Y. Garfinkel and M. Miller. Oxford: Oxbow. [Link]

Susan E. Allen. 2002. "The Palaeoethnobotany of Sovjan: Preliminary Results." in L'Albanie dans l'Europe Préhistorique du Paléolithique à l'Âge du Fer. Supplements au Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, edited by J. Rénard and G. Touchais. Athens: École française d'Athènes.

In Press

Susan E. Allen. "Prehistoric Land Use and Settlement in Central Greece: A Regional and Household Perspective." in Boiotia Antiqua VI, Including Papers presented at the Ninth International Boiotian Conference, Manitoba, Canada, October 29 – 31, 1998, edited by J.M. Fossey and M.B. Cosmopoulos. Chicago: Ares.

Susan E. Allen. "Water Management in Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean." in Water and Humanity, Historical Overview (History of Water and Civilization Book Series), edited by Fekri A. Hassan and Vernon L. Scarborough. Paris: UNESCO.

Courses Taught

15-ANTH-696, Archaeological Theory.

15-ANTH-402 / 15-ANTH-702, ARCHAEOBOTANY & ETHNOBOTANY / ARCH. ANALYSIS OF PLANTS.

People and Wetlands.

15-ANTH-100 INTRO ANTHROPOLOGY .

15-ANTH-190 FANTASTIC ARCHAEOL.

15-ANTH-201 INTRO ARCHAEOLOGY.

15-ANTH-204 GREAT DISC ARCHAEOL.

15-ANTH-276 WORLD PREHISTORY.

15-ANTH-320 BALKAN PEOPLES .

15-ANTH-329 ANTHRO JUNIOR RDNGS Peoples of Middle East.

15-ANTH-360 ORIGINS OF AGRICULT .

15-ANTH-555 SPATIAL ARCHEOLOGY.

15-ANTH-720 BALKAN ETHNOGRAPHY .

15-ANTH-776 WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY .