KEVIN D. FISHER
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Classics
128 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
14853-3201
kdf43@cornell.edu
tel. 607-255-3354 

EDUCATION

• PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology specialization), University of Toronto (2007)
• MA in Regional Planning and Resource Development, University of Waterloo (1995)
• BA (First Class Honours) in Classics, Brock University (1991)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, especially Cyprus
• architecture and society; urbanism
• emergence of complex societies; the role of the built environment in this process
• uses of cultural resources/politics of the past
• archaeology and education/public archaeology
• computer applications in archaeology
  

RECENT EMPLOYMENT

• Lecturer—Wilfrid Laurier University, Dept. of Archaeology and Classical Studies and Dept. of Anthropology (2005, 2007-08)
• Lecturer—University of Toronto, Dept. of Fine Art (2005-2006)

SELECTED FIELD/RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Co-director—Cyprus Built Environments Project. Investigations of the relationship between architecture, urbanism and social transformation in prehistoric Cyprus.  Currently using geophysical analysis to recover urban plans at the Late Bronze Age sites of Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and Maroni (with Sturt W. Manning, Cornell University).
• Supervisor/Field Archaeologist—Archaeological Assessments Ltd., Ontario, Canada (1998-2008)
• Specialist/Supervisor—Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus Project, Cyprus (2005-08); survey and excavations at Ayia Varvara-Asprokremnos
• Area Supervisor—excavations at the Hellenistic-Medieval site of St. George’s Hill (PASYDY), Nicosia, Cyprus (2002)
• Field Archaeologist—topographic survey and excavation of the Minoan sites of Petras and Khalasmenos, Crete, Greece (2000-01)
• Area Supervisor—excavations of Archaic-Roman cultic installations on the East Terrace, Idalion, Cyprus (1997-98, 2001)
• Co-director—Northern Jordan Valley Regional Project, Jordan (1996-1999); excavation of the Chalcolithic period site of Tell Fendi

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Architecture and interaction: access analysis within an integrative approach to analyzing ancient buildings.  Manuscript to be submitted to the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology in Oct. 2008.
• Places of social transformation: households and communities in Late Bronze Age Cyprus.  In The Cambridge Handbook of the Mediterranean World in the Bronze-Iron Ages. A.B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen (eds.). Cambridge University Press.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Fisher, K.D. Forthcoming (2009). Monumental Architecture, Place and Social Interaction in Late Bronze Age Cyprus.  Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. 14. London: Equinox Press. See <http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=343> for details.
• Fisher, K.D. 2007. The aegeanization of Cyprus at the end of the Bronze Age:  an architectural perspective. In Cyprus, the Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Continuity and Change. T.P. Harrison (ed.). Special issue of Scripta Mediterranea XVII-XVIII: 81-103.
• Fisher, K.D. 2006. Messages in stone:  constructing sociopolitical inequality in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. In Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. E.C. Robertson, J.W. Seibert, D.C. Fernandez and M.U. Zender (eds). Calgary: University of Calgary Press and University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 123-32.
• Blackham, M., K.D. Fisher and D. Lasby. 1998. Tell Fendi, a Late Chalcolithic settlement in the lower Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 42: 161-17.
• Blackham, M., K.D. Fisher and D. Lasby. 1997. Excavations at Tell Fendi, a Late Chalcolithic site in the Jordan Valley, Jordan. Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views 16(1): 17-21.

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-10)
• Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award (2008)
• Archaeological Institute of America Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship (2004-2005)
• O’Donovan Fellowship, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (2000)