Anna Cohen
Anthropology
Assistant Professor
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Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 425B)Phone: +1 435 797 0270
Email: anna.cohen@usu.edu
Educational Background
Teaching Interests
Archaeometry, GIS in Anthropology, Ceramic Analysis, Anthropological Landscapes, Cultural Resource Management, Research Ethics; Archaeology of Latin America, North America, and Utah
Research Interests
Political economy and political incorporation, human-environmental interactions, water management, comparative urbanism; survey methods and remote sensing, ceramic studies, archaeometry; data sovereignty, politics and ethics of archaeology, history of anthropology and the sciences; Latin America, Western North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau)
- Cohen, A., Fisher, C.T, (2016). The Purépecha (Tarascan) Empire: Handbook of Aztec Studies. Oxford University Press
Publications | Book Chapters
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Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Cohen, A.S, Hirshman, A.J, Pierce, D.E, Ferguson, R, (2022). Local Production and Developing Core Regions: Ceramic Characterization in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Western Mexico. Latin American Antiquity, doi: doi:10.1017/laq.2022.65
- Cohen, A.S, Fernandez-Diaz, J., Meeks, A., (2022). Exploring the Nature of Authority Over, and Ownership of Data Generated by Archaeological Lidar Projects in Latin America. Archaeologies, 18, 558-584. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-022-09464-z
- Cannon, M.B, Cohen, A.S, Jimenez, K., (2021). Connecting Native Students to STEM Research Using Virtual Archaeology: A Case Study from the Water Heritage Anthropological Project. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 9:2, 175-185. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/aap.2021.2
- Cohen, A. , (2021). Urbanization and Imperial Integration at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology, doi: 10.1080/00934690.2021.1893424
- Cohen, A.S, Klassen, S., Evans, D., (2020). Ethics in Archaeological Lidar. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3:1, 76-91. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.48
- Fernandez-Diaz, J., Cohen, A.S, (2020). Whose Data is it Anyway? Lessons in Data Management and Sharing from Resurrected Lidar Data for Archaeology in Honduras. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3:1, 122-134. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.51
- Fisher, C.T, Cohen, A.S, Solinis-Casparius, R., Bush, J., Pezzutti, F., Forest, M., Torvinen, A., (2019). Typology of Urban Architecture at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity, 30:3, 510-528.
- Dengah, H.J, Gilmore, J., Brasileiro, M., Cohen, A., (2019). Cultural Models of Raça: The Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity Revisited. . Journal of Anthropological Research
- Cohen, A., Pierce, D.E, Fisher, C.T, (2019). Geochemistry and Spatial Trends of Ceramics and Clay from Angamuco, Michoacán. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, 216-230. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.10.025
- Cohen, A., Galaty, M.L, Fisher, C.T, (2018). Petrographic Analysis of Ceramics and Clay from Angamuco, Michoacán. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 19, 155-165.
- Cohen, A., Solinis-Casparius, R., (2017). The Micropolitics of Public Archaeology: Working with the Ejido in Michoacán, Mexico. Journal of Social Archaeology, 16:3, 326-348. doi: 10.1177/1469605317724526
- Fisher, C.T, Cohen, A., Fernandez-Diaz, J., Leisz, S.J, (2017). The Application of LiDAR for the Documentation of Ancient Cities and Regions. Quaternary International, 448, 129-138.
- Fisher, C.T, Fernandez-Diaz, J., Cohen, A. , Neil Cruz, O., González, A., Leisz, S.J, Pezzutti, F.L, Shrestra, R., Carter, W.E, (2016). Identifying Ancient Settlement Patterns through LiDAR in the Mosquitia Region of Honduras. PLOS ONE, 11:8, e0159890.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.