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Elizabeth Baughan serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Richmond, specializing in ancient Mediterranean cultures through archaeological and classical lenses.
Her academic foundation includes:
- B.A. in Classics and Archaeology (double major, 1995)
- Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
Research centers on material culture analysis of burial furniture, funerary practices, and symposiac traditions across western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. Her scholarship examines how mortuary customs and banqueting rituals expressed cultural identities in cross-cultural contact zones, particularly during the Iron Age. This work culminated in the monograph Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), which established klinai (couches) as critical evidence for social identity negotiation.
Fieldwork engagement includes long-term participation in Bilkent University's excavations at Hacimusalar Höyük (southwestern Turkey) since 2009, investigating the Bronze Age-to-Byzantine settlement's cultural sequences through stratigraphic analysis and artifact studies.
