Michael L. Galaty

Michael L. Galaty is professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and he directs the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. He received his PhD from the University of Wiscan sin-Madison. He also directs collaborative field mehr anzeigen research projects in Albania, Greece, and, beginning in 2018, Kosovo. From 1998 to 2003 he co-directed the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP) in central Albania, a program of survey and excavation in the hinterland of the Greek colonial city of Apollonia. From 2004 to 2008 he co-directed the Shala Valley Project (SVP), an interdisciplinary regional research project focused on the Shala Valley of northern highland Albania. The SVP final report, titled Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, won the Society for American Archaeology's 2013 Scholarly Book Award. From 2010 to 2014, he co-directed the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodres (PASH), which focused on the northern Albanian region of Shkodra, and the Diros Project, which focused on Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece. weniger anzeigen