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Experts Directory: Claudia Chang

Claudia Chang

Titles and job responsibilities:

  • Professor of Anthropology

Summary of expertise:

I have conducted archaeological research on Bronze and Iron Age cultures in Southeastern Kazakhstan. In 1994-95 and then again in 1997-1999, I lived in the largest city in the Republic of Kazakhstan, a newly Independent Republic of the former USSR. Specific issues that I can speak to are: (1) post-Soviet life in the Republic of Kazakhstan; and (2) the cultural and historical heritage of Kazakhstan.

Books or significant articles published:

  • "Pastoralists at the Periphery": Herders in the Capitalist World (edited by C. Chang and H.A. Koster (1994), Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
  • "The Social Evolution of Eurasian Steppe Communities in Southeastern Kazakhstan": The Kazakh-American Talgar Project 1994 - 2001, (C. Chang, P.A. Tourtellotte, K. Baipakov, and F. P. Grigoriev). (Almaty: Institute of Archaeology, Kazakh National Academy of Sciences). (178-page monograph published in English).
  • "2003 Eurasian Iron Age Settlements and Chronology in Southeastern Kazakhstan" by Claudia Chang, Norbert Benecke, Fedor P. Grigoriev, Arlene M. Rosen, and Perry A. Tourtellotte. Antiquity 77(196): 298-312.
  • Numerous articles on Eurasian steppe archaeology and contemporary Greek pastoralism.

Current or recent research:

  • The Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadic Populations in Southeastern Kazakhstan
  • Cultural and Historical Heritage along the Silk Route (Central Asia and the Republic of Kazakhstan)

Current or recent awards, activities or memberships:

Member of:

  • Society for American Archaeologists
  • Archaeological Institute of America
  • American Anthropological Association

Activities:

  • Awarded a NSF research grant in 1997 for research on the Social Evolution of Eurasian Steppe Communities in SE Kazakhstan (covered funding from 1997-2002)
  • Fulbright Lecturer in the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1994-1995 at the Kazakh State University (KAZ-GU)
  • NEH fellowship for College Teachers awarded in 1997-1998

Experience with news media:

Moderate

Education:

  • B.A. Prescott College
  • M.A. State University of New York
  • Ph.D. State University of New York

Key terms:

Archaeology, Kazakhstan, Central Asia