Ian Kuijt

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Degrees

B.A., The University of Lethbridge; M.A., Simon Fraser University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Profile

Kuijt specializes in the archaeology of the Near East, Ireland and Western North America. He is the editor of Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation (2000), co-editor of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America (2004) and has authored over forty articles in peer reviewed or solicited journals and books. His research has been supported by the National Endowments for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the British Academy. Kuijt is currently working on a new book exploring the emergence of social inequality and the origins of agriculture. Since 2006 he has directed the Irish Cultural Landscape Heritage Initiative, an interdisciplinary project with University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, which focuses on understanding social and cultural life in rural Ireland and the Irish-American experience.

Contact Information

617 Flanner Hall
631-3263
Ian.Kuijt.1@nd.edu