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Scott Branting
Director
of the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
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Scott
Branting completed his PhD in Spring 2004. His dissertation
was titled, “Iron Age Pedestrians at Kerkenes Dag: An
Archeological GIS-T Approach to Movement and Transportation.”.
He was appointed Director of the Center for Ancient Middle
Eastern Landscapes at The Oriental Institute at the University
of Chicago.
As an IGERT fellow, Scott’s fieldwork focused on the ancient
Near East, Tanzania, Thailand and Peru. He entered the program
with a B.A. in Near Eastern Archaeology from Wheaton College
and an M.A. in Hittitology and Anatolian Archaeology from the
Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Scott served
for three years as the GIS Research Specialist at the
University of Chicago, with a joint appointment at Argonne
National Laboratory. At UB, he was Assistant Director of the
Anthropology GIS Laboratory, Staff Associate with the
Department of Anthropology, and Assistant Director of the
University at Buffalo portion of the Geography of Canadian
Literacy and Disability Project. His research interests
include transportation GIS (GIS-T), fractals, cultural and
cognitive representations in archaeological space, and the
implementation of new sensing techniques in the field. |
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