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Faculty
Michael Galaty
received a B.A. with honors in anthropology from Grinnell College
and a M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of
Sociology-Anthropology and has been at Millsaps College since
1999. His areas of interest include the archaeology of complex
societies and state formation, as well as the analytical analysis
of ceramics. He has conducted archaeological research in Mississippi
and Virginia, as well as in the European nations of Greece, Hungary,
and Albania. Since 2004 he has directed the Shala Valley Project
(www.millsaps.edu/svp), which studies the archaeology and history
of the territory of the Shala tribe in the northern Albanian
high mountains, including their practices of warfare and feud.
The Shala Valley Project is supported by major grants from the
National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Galaty has published several books, on Mycenaean
pottery, Mycenaean palaces, and the practice of archaeology under
dictatorship. He was the 2003 winner of the Millsaps College
Outstanding Young Faculty Award.
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