Dr. Alan Farahani
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EDUCATION
- May 2014: PhD | University of California, Berkeley
- May 2007: BA | Rutgers University, New Brunswick
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- Aug 2021 - present: Research and Data Scientist
- Ancient People and Plants Laboratory
Department of Anthropology
PI: Prof. Katherine Chiou, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- Armenian Laboratory
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
PI: Dr. Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky University of California, Los Angeles
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Aug 2018 - Jun 2021: Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Sep 2014 - Jul 2018: Postdoctoral Scholar
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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2022: Farahani, A and R. Sinensky. “Challenges and Prospects of Diversity Measures in Paleoethnobotany”
in M. Eren and B. Buchanan (eds.), Defining and Measuring Diversity in
Archaeology. New York: Berghahn Books. -
2021: Burton, M., P.S. Quinn, K. Bennallack, A. Farahani, M.D. Howland, M. Najjar, and
T.E. Levy. “Ceramic Technology at Wadi Fidan 61, an Early Pottery Neolithic Site (ca.
6500 BCE) in the Faynan Region of Southern Jordan”. Journal of Archaeological Science:
Reports 38: 103029. -
2021: Kaufman, B., H. Barnard, A. Drine, R. Khedher, A. Farahani, S. Ben Tahar, E. Jerray, B.
Damiata, M. Daniels, J. Cerezo-Roman, T. Fenn, and V. Moses. “Quantifying Surplus and
Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the CarthaginianRoman Urban Mound
of Zita, Tripolitania”. Current Anthropology 62. -
2020: Farahani, A. “Paleoethnobotany and Ancient Agriculture” in T. Howe and D. Hollander
(eds.), A Companion to Ancient Agriculture, pp. 7-36. New York: Wiley Blackwell. -
2018: Farahani, A. “A 2500-Year Historical Ecology of Agricultural Production under Empire
in Dhiban, Jordan”, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 52: 137-155. -
2016: Farahani, A., B.W. Porter, H. Huynh, and B. Routledge. “Crop Storage and Animal
Husbandry in Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya (Jordan): A Paleoethnobotanical
Approach”. Annual of ASOR 69: 27-90. Boston: ISD. -
2014: Farahani, A. Sasanian Empire, Archaeology of the. In C. Smith (ed.) Encyclopedia of
Global Archaeology, Vol. 10, pp. 6463-6471. New York: Springer. -
2012: B. W. Porter, B. Routledge, Fatkin, D.S., K. Adelsberger, A. Farahani, and W. Schultz.
The Dhiban Excavation and Development Project’s 2009 season: Field L excavations.
Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan 56: 111-129. -
2011: Fatkin, D.S., K. Adelsberger, A. Farahani, A. Fischer, S.W. Kansa, J. Lev-Tov, C.
Morgan, B. W. Porter, B. Routledge, and A. T. Wilson. Digging deeper: Technical
reports from the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project (2004-2009). Annual of the
Department of Antiquities, Jordan 55: 249-256.
SELECTED GRANTS
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2019: Natural Environment Research Council NRCF Application for C14 dating (Application no. 2219.1019). PI: Augusta McMahon (University of Cambridge), PhD: Michael Lewis (University of Cambridge), Co-Investigator: Steve Renette (University of Pennsylvania), Co-Investigator: Alan Farahani (UNLV)
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2013: Harris Grant, American Schools of Oriental Research
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2012: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS# 1135042)
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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2018: Antiquity Prize for Farahani et al. 2017
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2016-7: Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research (Honorable Mention), UCLA
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2015: Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Dissertation Award
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2013-4: John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International
and Comparative Studies, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley -
2007: Linguistics Award in Academic Excellence, Rutgers University
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2007: Joseph B. Bradley Award for Premodern History, Rutgers University
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2018 - present: Tell Hisban Archaeological Project (Jordan)
Archaeologist / Paleoethnobotanist
Director(s): Bethany Walker, Bonn University -
2009 - 2019: Dhiban Excavation and Development Project (Jordan)
Archaeologist / Paleoethnobotanist
Area Supervisor: June 2012/3, Square Supervisor: Jul - Aug 2009, June - July 2010
Director(s): Katherine Adelsberger, Knox College | Benjamin Porter, UC Berkeley,
Bruce Routledge, University of Liverpool | Danielle S. Fatkin, Knox College -
2009 - 2014: Khirbet al-Mudayna al-Aliya Project (Jordan)
Paleoethnobotanist
Director(s): Benjamin Porter, UC Berkeley | Bruce Routledge, University of Liverpool