Chris Roosevelt

Chris Roosevelt is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art and serves as Director of the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations and the Kaymakçı Archaeological Project and Co-Director of Gygaia Projects. Between 2005 and 2014, Roosevelt co-directed (with Dr. Christina Luke) the Central Lydia Archaeological Survey (CLAS), a project that investigated long-term patterns of cultural activity, past environmental conditions, and the dynamics between the two. The newest Gygaia Projects initiative is the Kaymakçı Archaeological Project (KAP), begun in 2014. KAP goals include increasing understanding of the emergence and maintenance of an indigenous polity situated between the better-known spheres of the Hittites and Mycenaeans (in central Anatolia and the Aegean, respectively), through the excavation of a recently discovered and previously unexcavated regional capital of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. This research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as by private foundations and donors. Roosevelt’s work has been published with Cambridge University Press (The Archaeology of Lydia from Gyges to Alexander, 2009), Koç University Press (Gyges’ten Büyük İskender’e Lydia Arkeolojisi, 2017), and in numerous archaeological journals. A former Fulbright Scholar and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Roosevelt remains a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and the British Institute in Ankara, a corresponding member of both the German Archaeological Institute and the Turkish Institute of Archaeology, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London.

Bronze and Iron Age Anatolian and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology

Classical Archaeology

Lydian

Persian

and Greek Interaction in Western Anatolia

Landscape Archaeology

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Digital Archaeology