Monica L. Smith
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D., University of Michigan 1997
Office: 304 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-794-9179
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
smith@anthro.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
\n375 Portola Plaza
\nUCLA
\nLos Angeles, CA 90095-1553
Subfield
Archaeology
Research Interests
Urbanism, economic networks, consumption and material culture, anthropology of food, comparative historical archaeology; South Asia, Mediterranean, Southwestern U.S.
Selected Publications
2009 (with Rabindra Kumar Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh 2008. Man and Environment 34(1):47-56.
2008 (with Rabindra Kumar Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh, Orissa. Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi.
2008 Urban empty spaces: Contentious places for consensus-building. Archaeological Dialogues 15(2):216-231.
2008 Food. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(1):117-120.
2007 Inconspicuous consumption: Non-display goods and identity formation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14:412-438.
2007 Territories, corridors and networks: A biological model for the premodern state. Complexity 12(4):28-35.
2007 (with R.K. Mohanty, T. Matney, A. Donkin and G. Greene) Archaeological research at Sisupalgarh 2007: An Early Historical City in Orissa. Puratattva (Journal of the Indian Archaeological Society) 37:142-154.)
2007 (with R.K. Mohanty and T. Matney) A Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Investigations at Sisupalgarh 2006. Man and Environment 32(1):57-66.
2007 (with R.K. Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh 2005-06. Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute 66-67:191-198.
2006 The archaeology of South Asian cities. Journal of Archaeological Research 14(2):97-142.
2006 The archaeology of food preference. American Anthropologist 108(3):480-493.
2006 How ancient agriculturalists managed yield fluctuations through crop selection and reliance on wild plants: an example from Central India. Economic Botany 60(1):39-48.
2006 (with R.K. Mohanty) Excavations at Sisupalgarh 2005. Man and Environment 31(1):27-32.
2005 Networks, territories and the cartography of ancient states. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(4):832-849.
2005 Archaeological research at Sisupalgarh, an Early Historic city in eastern India. South Asian Archaeology 2003, edited by B. Vogt. European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, KAVA, Bonn, pp 291-300.
2004 (with Jaharul Haque and Nilka Dabare) Excavations at the Buddhist Monastic Site of Bhasu Vihara, Bangladesh. Antiquity 78 (available at http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/smith/index.html)
2003 (editor) The Social Construction of Ancient Cities, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
2002 Systematic survey at the Early Historic urban site of Sisupalgarh, Orissa. In Archaeology of Eastern India: New Perspectives, edited by Gautam Sengupta and Sheena Panja, pp. 109-125. Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, East India, Kolkata.
2002 The role of local trade networks in the Indian subcontinent during the Early Historic period. Man and Environment 27(1):139-151.
2002 The Historic Period at Bandelier National Monument. National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2001 The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
2001 The archaeological hinterlands of Mahasthangarh: Observations and potential for future research. In France-Bangladesh Joint Venture Excavations at Mahasthangarh First Interim Report 1993-1999, edited by Md. Shafiqul Alam and Jean-François Salles, pp. 61-73. Department of Archaeology, Bangladesh.
2001 Integración social, espacial y económica en las antiguas ciudades del subcontinente Indio, translated by M.a Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and Andrés Ciudad Ruiz. In Reconstruyendo la Ciudad Maya: El Urbanismo en las Sociedades Antiguas, edited by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, M.a Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and M.a del Carmen Martínez Martínez, pp. 503-522. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, Madrid.
2001 The archaeology of a "destroyed" site: Surface survey and historical documents at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Historical Archaeology 35(2):31-40.
2001 Excavation of a large building in an area of pottery production on the upper slopes of Dhahret Slama (Site 251). Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 2: The East Baths, Cemeteries, Kilns, Venus Mosaic, Site Museum, and other studies, edited by L.M. Stirling, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series No. 14, pp. 237-249.
2001 A water-collecting area on Dhahret Slama ridge (Site 76). Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 2: The East Baths, Cemeteries, Kilns, Venus Mosaic, Site Museum, and other studies, edited by L.M. Stirling, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series No. 14, pp. 253-258.
2000 Systematic surface survey at the Early Historic site of Kaundinyapura, India. Man and Environment 25(1):75-87.
2000 Bangladesh: Building national identity through archaeology. Antiquity 74:701-706.
2000 Economic and social interactions at an Early Historic site: Recent fieldwork at Kaundinyapura, India. In South Asian Archaeology 1997, volume II, edited by Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe de Marco, pp. 793-810. Istituto per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome.
1999 The role of ordinary goods in premodern exchange. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6(2): 109-135.
1999 "Indianization" from the Indian point of view: Trade and cultural contacts with Southeast Asia in the early first millennium C.E. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 42(1):1-26.
1997 The dynamic realm of the Indian Ocean: A review. Asian Perspectives 36(2):245-259.
Grants
American Institute of Indian Studies (2002)
American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (1997)
National Science Foundation (1999, 2005)
National Geographic Society (1999, 2007)
Wenner Gren Foundation (1994, 1999)
Awards
Archaeological Dialogues Essay Award, Theoretical Archaeology Group conference (2008)
Visiting Research Associate, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe (2007-08)
Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA (2004)
UCIS Faculty Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2002)
Regents' Fellowship, University of Michigan (1991-1994)
Phi Beta Kappa
Grad Students
Elizabeth Baker Brite is conducting dissertation research in Uzbekistan on an early fortified settlement. Her M.A. examined the political and economic context of wall painting at the site of Kazakhl'i-yatkan in Uzbekistan.
Kanika Kalra is a first-year graduate student who comes to us from the University of Delhi. She is interested in the archaeology of the medieval period in the Indian subcontinent.
Dr. Elizabeth Mullane has recently finished her dissertation on the application of modeling (specifically, self-organizing systems) to archaeological cultures of variable complexity. Her M.A. evaluated the growth of trade and social interactions from the Iron Age through the Roman period in the Kahramanmarash Valley, Turkey. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
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