CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Alice Mathea Choyke
Nationality: United States of America –Hungarian dual national
Permanent residence: Hungarian Republic since 1980
Home address: 21-23/D Korompai Street
H-1124 Budapest, Hungary
Tel.: (36 1) 319-0846
e-mail:
choyke@ceu.edu
choyke@gmail.com
Work address:
Central European University
Department of Medieval Studies
9 Nador Street
H-1059 Budapest
Tel./Fax:
(36 1) (36 1) 327-3801
DEGREES GRANTED
1988 Candidate Degree issued by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1983 PhD State University of New York, Binghamton
Field: Cultural Anthropology
Specialization: Archaeology, Archaeozoology, Cultural Ecology
1974 MA State University of New York, Binghamton
Specialization: European Prehistory
1972 BA University of Pittsburgh,
Field: Cultural Anthropology/Archaeology
Dissertation titles: PhD – Analysis of bone, antler and tooth tools from Bronze
Age Hungary
MA – 1/ Origins of Agriculture in the Ertebølle area;
2/ Coastal adaptations in Mesolithic Scotland
Special training: Studies in archaeological faunal identification at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with Prof. S. Bökönyi, Budapest (1974-1977)
FIELDS OF INTEREST
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Pre- and proto historic animal bone and antler
manufacturing and use
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Memory, agency and material culture studies
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Hunting/animal keeping in subsistence economies
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Roman and medieval zooarchaeology
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Social aspects of human-animal interactions
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Interdisciplinary data-network for medieval animals
(MAD – medieval animal data-network) development
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Museum curation and Cultural Heritage
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
2016 – present Bone tool analyst at Late Chalcolithic/EBA site of Ovçular Tepesi, Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan)
2015 – present Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Program , Central European University
2013 – present Director of Doctoral Studies Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University
2011 – present Bone tool analyst at late Chalcolithic site of Godedzor, south Armenia, MAE Lyon project
2010 Bone tool analyst of material from pre-contact site of Paria in Bolivia, Ethnographic Museum in Budapest.
2008 Bone tool analyst Sarmatian site of Űllő 5, Pest County museum
2006 - 2008 Bone tool analyst KRAP project Vésztő-Bikeri and Körösladány-Bikeri, Florida State University, Department of Anthropology
2004 Bone tool analyst Zeytinli Bahçe excavations, Turkey
2004 Bone tool analyst Horum Höyük excavation, Turkey
2001 - 2003 Ljubljana Barja (bone tools from Eneolithic site, Slovenia National Museum,
2000 - 2002 Bone tool analyst, Ecsegfalva excavations (Early Neolithic site, Hungary; Joint excavations between MTA Archaeological Institute and Cardiff University) Analysis of worked skeletal materials.
1998 - present: Associate Professor, Research methods, material culture, animal studies, cultural heritage at Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University
1997 - present Bone tool analyst for worked bone from Százhalombatta-Földvár, Bronze age tell in Hungary (SAX project with Gotenberg Univ. Sweden)
1988 - 2012 Archaeozoologist, curator for archaeozoology at Aquincum Museum (Budapest History Museum)
1992 Bone tool analyst, M1 highway construction project, Hungary
1987 - present (summer-fall field seasons) bone tool analyst, Arslantepe Project, Turkey (University of Rome)
1989 -1990 Guest researcher, bone tool analyst (Late Neolithic lake dwelling site, Laboratorium für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Basel
1990 Bone tool analyst, Kerma Project, Sudan (University of Genéve)
1984 Bone tool analyst, Shahr-i-Sokhta Project, Bronze age Iranian site (ISMEO, Naples)
1979-1981 Freelance archaeozoologist at Bronze Age projects in Hungary (hill forts in western Hungary, tell settlements in the Great Plain)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORANIZATIONS
ICAZ (International Congress of Archaeozoology)
EAA European Association of Archaeologists
ASWA (Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Associated Areas)
WBRG (founding member of Worked Bone Research Group, official liaison officer with ICAZ)
UISPP commission on bone tools (Artefacts en matières dures d’origine animale ou humaine) - Vice-Présidente
SCHOLARLY CO-OPERATION
PECO-NEI project L’exploitation des matières dures animales dans l’Europe préhistorique – with grant from the Ministry of Culture in France with laboratories in Aix-en-Provence, Nanterre, and Toulouse in France and Russia, Rumania and Hungary
GDRE project with grant from the Ministry of Culture in France with laboratories in Aix-en-Provence, Nanterre, and Toulouse in France to study problems in bone tool manufacturing in prehistoric Europe
ARCANE – EU project for Early Bronze Age Studies in Anatolia – the Early Bronze Age bone industry in the Upper Euphrates Valley
UISPP commission on bone tools (Artefacts en matières dures d’origine animale ou humaine) - Vice-Présidente
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
2016 Bones and Society: Integrating Zooarchaeology and Social Archaeology (with Christian Pierre St. Gates and Salima Ikram) World Archeological Congress (WAC-8), Kyoto Japan (August 29- September 2)
2016 Food Animals / Animal Food, II; Equids Round Table; International Medieval Congress, Leeds (July 4-7, 2016)
2015 Animals and Humans, Humans and Animals: Reflections through Reaction session; Creepy-Crawlies Round Table. International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2014 Global Patterns in the Exploitation of Raw Materials thematic session (with Natascha Buc, Vivian Scheinsohn and Annalise Christie, at the 11th meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology in Mendoza, Argentina (ICAZ).
2014 Animals and the Creation of Identities, I; Whales Round Table. International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2013 Animals and the Diversity of Pleasure, I; Ostriches Round Table. International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2013 Not just for show: The archaeology of beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments (with Daniella Bar-Yosef) 78th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2012 Snakes and Dragons Round Table, International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2011 Proud as a Lion and Humble as a Sparrow?: Animals for the Rich and Animals for the Poor, I & II. International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2010 Cat Woman and the King of Beasts: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Felids in Medieval Life - A Round Table Discussion, International Medieval Congress, Leeds
Moving on down the Road: Information Pathways and Animal Mobility in Medieval Europe, International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2010 Raw and Worked Osseous Materials session (organized with Dr. Sonia O’Connor and Carole Vercoutère) at the10th meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology in Paris (ICAZ).
2008 M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata Network): A Workshop, International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2008 ‘Animals as Material Culture’ conference series, Fauna in Urban Environments. At Central European University, Medieval studies Department and King Mathias Museum, Visegrád, Hungary. March 17-19, 2008
2006 9th International conference of International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ) held in Mexico City, Organized session, ‘Animal Transformation’, with Dr. Lynn Snyder (Smithsonian Institution, USA)
2004 10th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeology (EAA) in Lyon. Organized session on Memory with Dr. Irene Barbieri (published volume expected 2008)
1999 2nd Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Budapest, 1999, organizer
1996 3rd Meeting of the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Budapest, 1996, co-organizer
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Exhibition at Aquincum museum on Plants and Romans – opening May 22, 2009
2008 Poster exhibition Aquincum Museum: Plants in the History of Europe (PaCE – European Culture 2000 project)
2004 - 2006 Animals in the Roman World (Aquincum Museum of the Budapest History Museum)
1998 Archaeometry in Aquincum (Aquincum Museum of the Budapest History Museum)
LANGUAGES
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English
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Hungarian
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French
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EDITING WORK
2013 Co-editor with S. O’Connor, From These Bare Bones. Raw Materials and the Study of Worked Osseous Materials. Oxbow Books: Oxford.
2009 Co-editor with Campana, D. – Crabtree, P. –. DeFrance, S.D – Lev-Tov J., Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity, and Animal Transformations, Oxbow Books: Oxford.
2009 Co-editor with Barbiera, I. and Rasson, J., Materializing Memory, Archaeological Material Culture and the Semantics of the Past, BAR International Series 1977, Archeopress:Oxford.
2008 Co-editor with Villas - E, Gourhan, L. - Buitenhuis, H.: Archaeozoology of the Near East VI. CNRS Lyon.
2007 Co-editor with Olsen, S., Grant, S., Choyke, A. and Bartosiewicz, L. (eds.) 2006. Horses and Humans: The Evolution of Human –Equine Relationships. BAR International Series 1506, Archaeopress:Oxford.
2005 Co-editor with Buitenhuis, H. - Martin L. - Bartosiewicz L.:Archaeozoology of the Near East IV. ARC Publication 123, Groningen
2005 Co-editor with Jaritz G.: Animal Diversities. Medium Aevum Quotidianium Volume XVI, Krems.
2001 senior editor with Bartosiewicz L.: Crafting Bone – Skeletal Technologies through Time and Space. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 937, Oxford:Archeopress
2002 Co-editor with Buitenhuis, H. – A.H Al-Shiyab - Mashkoor, M.: Archaeozoology of the Near East IV. ARC Publication 62, Groningen
2000 Co-editor with Buitenhuis, H. - Bartosiewicz L.:Archaeozoology of the Near East III. ARC Publication 32, Groningen
1998 Co-editor with Buitenhuis, H. - Bartosiewicz L. Archaeozoology of the Near East III. ARC Publication 18, Groningen
1995 - present Aquincumi Füzetek (annual report of the Aquincum Museum)
WEBSITES/DATABASES
Webpage: Editor at webpage for Worked Bone Research Group (WBRG) run by Hans-Christian Küchelmann, Germany
Database: Development of the Medieval Animal Data-networks (MAD). A joint project between Insttute for daily Life at Salzburg and the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University
PROJECTS Medieval Pig project with Gerhard Jaritz for MAD-networks project
Development of Bio-archaeology laboratory between the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University and The Budapest History Museum
PaCE archaeobotany EU project co-ordinator for the Budapest History Museum
GDRE (CNRS) project for Prehistoric Exploitation of Osseous Material in Europe
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