Monica L. Smith
Monica Louise Smith is an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian of ancient cities and their household activities. She is Professor and Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
Education and career[]
Smith graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in classical civilization from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1985. She earned a master's degree in archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 and completed her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1997.[2]
After postdoctoral work at the University of Arizona, Southern Methodist University, and the Smithsonian Institution, she became an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. She returned to the University of California, Los Angeles as a faculty member in 2002.[2]
In 2016, Smith along with geographer Thomas Gillespie researched potential sites for Edicts of Ashoka. The edicts are evidence of early political regimes, urbanism, and the spread of Buddhism within the Indian subcontinent. The team used a computer model to extrapolate 121 possible sites, mostly in the Deccan Plateau, Afghanistan-Pakistan border, North West India, based on similarities, such as geological and population data, to existing sites. The paper was published in the Current Science scientific journal.[3][4]
Books[]
Smith is the author of books including:
- The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India (British Archaeological Reports, 2001)[5]
- The Historic Period at Bandelier National Monument (National Park Service 2002)[6]
- A Prehistory of Ordinary People (University of Arizona Press, 2010)[7]
- Cities: The First 6,000 Years (Penguin/Random House, 2019)[8]
Her edited volumes include:
- The Social Construction of Ancient Cities (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003)[9]
- Abundance: The Archaeology of Plenitude (University Press of Colorado, 2017)[10]
See also[]
- Societal collapse
References[]
- ^ Monica L. Smith, UCLA Anthropology, retrieved 2019-12-16
- ^ Jump up to: a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), November 2018, retrieved 2019-12-16
- ^ Ray, Kalyan (2016-05-13). "Ashokan edicts: scientists discover 121 possible new sites". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ "15 threatened natural treasures and the UCLA scientists working to save them". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ Review of The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India:
- Ray, Himanshu Prabha (Fall 2003), "Review", Asian Perspectives, 42 (2): 405–407, doi:10.1353/asi.2003.0048, hdl:10125/17197, S2CID 162286341
- ^ Review of The Historic Period at Bandelier National Monument:
- Ramenofsky, Ann F. (Spring 2004), Journal of Anthropological Research, 60 (1): 124–126, doi:10.1086/jar.60.1.3631017, JSTOR 3631017CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- ^ Reviews of A Prehistory of Ordinary People:
- Palumbo, Scott (2011), Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 35 (1): 187–188, JSTOR 23006548CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Chapman, Bob (September 2011), Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 21 (3): 474–476, doi:10.1017/s0959774311000485CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Mishkin, Miramanni M. (December 15, 2011), Economic Botany, 65 (4): 428–429, JSTOR 41408266CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Palincaş, Nona (2013), European Journal of Archaeology, 16 (1): 175–180, doi:10.1179/146195712x13524807491370CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- ^ Reviews of Cities: The First 6,000 Years:
- "Nonfiction Book Review", Publishers Weekly
- "An archaeologist examines the deep history of the world's cities", Kirkus Review
- Rademacher, Anne (April 16, 2019), "An archaeologist identifies urban areas as key aggregators of human social experience", Science
- Kiser, Barbara (May 1, 2019), "Profits for the people, six millennia of cities, and the roots of sickness and health: Books in brief", Nature, 569 (7754): 37, Bibcode:2019Natur.569...37K, doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01317-0
- "The promise and problems of cities: An archaeologist explores the enduring appeal of urban life", The Economist, May 20, 2019
- Ettorre, John (May 27, 2019), "What we can learn from ancient cities", US News & World Report
- Klink, Ross; Schenkel, Nick (May 31, 2019), Book Review: Cities, WBAA
- Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (July 16, 2019), "The metropolis and the masses", Wall Street Journal
- Donoghue, Steve (August 5, 2019), "Two books that will make you see cities in a whole new light", Christian Science Monitor
- Scott, Michael (September 2019), "Cradle of the kebab", Literary Review, 479
- ^ Reviews of The Social Construction of Ancient Cities:
- Trigger, Bruce G. (October 2003), "Return to the heart of cities", Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 13 (2): 281–283, doi:10.1017/s0959774303210167
- Storey, Rebecca (February 2004), The American Historical Review, 109 (1): 141–142, doi:10.1086/ahr/109.1.141, JSTOR 10.1086/530159CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Kohl, Philip L. (December 2004), American Anthropologist, 106 (4): 779–780, doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.779, JSTOR 3567233CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- ^ Reviews of Abundance: The Archaeology of Plenitude:
- Fagan, Brian (February 2018), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48 (4): 539–540, doi:10.1162/jinh_r_01199, S2CID 148863088CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Gill, Kristina M. (June 2018), American Antiquity, 83 (3): 568–569, doi:10.1017/aaq.2018.26, S2CID 165553902CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
External links[]
- Home page
- Monica L. Smith publications indexed by Google Scholar
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