Ruth Tringham Curriculum Vitae (My Life)
EDUCATION
Ph.D.Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK, 1966
Dissertation title: "The Earliest Neolithic in Central Europe and its relationship to Southeast Europe".
OTHER POSITIONS
2011-present President and Creative Director, Center for Digital Archaeology (CoDA)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
2011-presemt Professor of the Graduate School (Anthropology), UC Berkeley
1988-2011 Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
1998-presentCo-Director, Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology
1978-1988 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California,Berkeley
1976-1978 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
1972-1976 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
1969-1971 Research Assistant, Dept.of Anthropology,University College, London
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008-present Alice S. Davis Endowed Chair in Anthropology
2008 New Media Consortium (NMC) Virtual Learning Prize for Okapi Island in 2L
2008 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service for Service-Learning Leadership
2007 Ist prize ASOR Open Archaeology Competition for “Remixing Çatalhöyük”
2001 UC Berkeley Educational Initiatives Award
2001-2005 UC Links Award for After-School Program “Expedition”
1997-2000 National Science Foundation Research Grant for Çatalhöyük excavation, Turkey
1998-2001 University of California Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education
1999-2001 University of California/Interactive University Core Project Award
1994-1997 National Science Foundation Research Grant for Podgoritsa Project, Bulgaria
1983-1989 Smithsonian Institution Joint U.S.-Yugoslav Fund for Co-operative, Scientific, Cultural and Technical Research at Opovo, Yugoslavia
1978-1981 National Science Foundation Research Grant for Selevac Project, Yugoslavia
1968-1969 Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
1966-1968 Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for fieldwork and research in Eastt Europe and USSR
1966-1967 British Council Scholarship, University of Leningrad,USSR
1963-1964 British Council Scholarship, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia
RESEARCH INTERESTS
European and Mediterranean Archaeology, Early agricultural societies, Feminist Practice of Archaeology, Senses of Place, Household Archaeology, Archaeology of Architecture, Experimental Research in Archaeology, Visual Anthropology, Multimedia Presentation of Archaeological Interpretation, Media Representation of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, New Media and Archaeology
FIELD AND LAB RESEARCH
Principal Investigator
1997-present: UC Berkeley Research Project at Catalhöyük,Turkey (BACH) in collaboration with the Catalhöyük Research Project directed by Dr. Ian Hodder, Stanford University
1994-1996 Joint US-UK-Bulgarian Archaeological Project at Podgoritsa, Bulgaria,
1983-1994 Joint US-Yugoslav Archaeological Project at Opovo, Yugoslavia
1973-1981 Joint US-Yugoslav Archaeological Project at Selevac,Yugoslavia
Special Consultant
2008 Consultant for SF Presidio Leventar (El Presidio) Project Interpretive Plan
