Anna Lucille Boozer
Anna Boozer researches various aspects of Roman Mediterranean archaeology, including specialist subjects on the Roman East, Roman Egypt, imperialism, houses, and households. Her current research investigates the migration of peoples, goods and ideas across the borders of imperially controlled regions in order to understand how ordinary people experienced the Roman Empire. She is particularly interested in how divergent categories of identity-such as gender, ethnicity, status and age-affected modes of self-representation under Roman rule.
Anna has excavated across the Roman Mediterranean and she currently excavates a Roman city in the Western Desert of Egypt as part of the Amheida Project. She also co-directs MAP: The Meroe Archival Project with Intisar Elzein Soghayroun (University of Khartoum, Sudan). Her publications include articles on imperialism, memory, daily life, frontiers, migration and the life course. Her book, "A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2" (2015, ISAW-NYU Press), presents and discusses the architecture, artifacts, and ecofacts recovered from a single house in a holistic manner. This contextual approach to the archaeological material has never before been attempted in a full report on the excavation of a Romano-Egyptian house. Her second monograph, "At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology" (2021, Cambridge University Press) explores everyday life from a lifecourse perspective, drawing particular attention to the embodied, sensory, and intersectional experiences of people living under Roman Rule. She co-edited "Archaeologies of Empire" (2020, SAR/UNM Press) with Bleda Düring and the late Bradley Parker.
Anna serves on the steering committee for the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, is an Honorary Fellow of the TOPOI Excellence Cluster (Berlin, Germany), and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading (Reading, UK).
BA (St. John's College), MA, PhD (Columbia University)
Address: Department of History
Baruch College
One Bernard Baruch Way
City University of New York
New York, NY 10010
USA
Anna has excavated across the Roman Mediterranean and she currently excavates a Roman city in the Western Desert of Egypt as part of the Amheida Project. She also co-directs MAP: The Meroe Archival Project with Intisar Elzein Soghayroun (University of Khartoum, Sudan). Her publications include articles on imperialism, memory, daily life, frontiers, migration and the life course. Her book, "A Late Romano-Egyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2" (2015, ISAW-NYU Press), presents and discusses the architecture, artifacts, and ecofacts recovered from a single house in a holistic manner. This contextual approach to the archaeological material has never before been attempted in a full report on the excavation of a Romano-Egyptian house. Her second monograph, "At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology" (2021, Cambridge University Press) explores everyday life from a lifecourse perspective, drawing particular attention to the embodied, sensory, and intersectional experiences of people living under Roman Rule. She co-edited "Archaeologies of Empire" (2020, SAR/UNM Press) with Bleda Düring and the late Bradley Parker.
Anna serves on the steering committee for the Sudan Archaeological Research Society, is an Honorary Fellow of the TOPOI Excellence Cluster (Berlin, Germany), and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading (Reading, UK).
BA (St. John's College), MA, PhD (Columbia University)
Address: Department of History
Baruch College
One Bernard Baruch Way
City University of New York
New York, NY 10010
USA
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DOI: 10.1111/apaa.12057
Articles by Anna Lucille Boozer
DOI: 10.1111/apaa.12057
inhabitants connected with people in the Nile Valley and more distant locations. These connections are visible in
the form of trade, technology, and migration. In order to understand the impact of this connection with other
regions upon local oasites, this article offers a critique of current theories on migration and consumption before
reviewing the evidence of such connections chronologically. The available evidence suggests that the Old
Kingdom, the New Kingdom, the Perisan Period, and the Roman Period may have been particularly prominent
periods of connectivity for the Western Desert. This evidence also suggests strong connections to Thebes
throughout most of the history of the Western Desert. Since formal research in the Western Desert is relatively
recent, it is anticipated that the current image of Western Desert connections will change in future years.
Link to Advanced Seminar: https://sarweb.org/?2017_seminar_empire-p:2017_seminars
Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXwC0xt1hk