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Kathryn Morgan is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a D.Phil. from the University of Pennsylvania (2018). Her research focuses on Bronze and Iron Age material culture in Greece and the Near East, with special emphasis on Anatolia. Key themes include political identity formation, cross-cultural interaction, monumental architecture, ritual practices, and gender studies. She serves as Assistant Director of the Chicago-Tübingen Expedition to Zincirli Höyük in southeastern Turkey.
Recent grants include the 2023-2024 Institutional Support from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation (Harvard University). Teaching highlights include courses on archaeological ethics (Loot: Who Owns the Past?), ancient feasting rituals, and Greek archaeology surveys. She actively participates in professional development programs like Duke's Faculty Success Initiative (2021).
Her fieldwork at Zincirli has produced significant insights into Middle Bronze Age urbanism, food production systems, and regional trade networks. Research outputs emphasize interdisciplinary approaches combining artifact analysis with textual sources to reconstruct ancient socioeconomic dynamics.
