Assistant Anthropology Professor Paul Goldstein has been awarded two Fulbright grants for the upcoming academic year to conduct research in Peru.
The Fulbright Hays award is a grant given by the U.S. Department of Education to professors and other members of academic communities to facilitate research in foreign countries.
Goldstein will begin his nine-month Fulbright Hays research this summer in the southern valleys of Peru, analyzing its transition from small, chieftain-based societies to the empirically based Tiwanaku society.
"This transition occurred around 500 A.D.," he said. "It will be the particular focus of our settlement survey study."
Goldstein was also awarded a second, smaller Fulbright from the Council on International Exchange Scholars. He will use this three-month grant to begin research on Incan occupation of Ecuador. "It's a pilot project for future work," he said.
Goldstein said his Ecuadorian survey will begin after the first Fulbright work in Peru is completed.
He is also the recipient of the Junior Faculty Fellowship, a research grant given by the College, and the H. J. Hynes Award for Latin American archaeology for similar research.
Goldstein said he is looking forward to his research time and said that the Fulbrights provide unique opportunities for many people.
"There will be several Dartmouth students involved on the Peru team. Its quite possible some students going down will turn their work into an honors thesis," he said.
Goldstein said the College encourages applying for research grants and is very supportive of his taking time off from teaching.
"Dartmouth strongly supports high quality teaching and research strengthens that," he said. "Students often inspire the research, are involved in it and then benefit from it in the classroom."
Goldstein said the long time period away from the College and teaching will provide a great opportunity for him to conclude his Peruvian survey.
His work in the valleys of Peru, which he began in 1993, will involve returning for three months to 10 of the 480 sites being studied by his team, followed by a period of research in the Moquegua Museum laboratory in Peru.
"The excavations are only the tip of the iceberg -- analysis and writing take a lot of time," he said.
Goldstein attended Binghamton University for his undergraduate studies and received his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago.
Before coming to the College in 1995, he worked as a staff researcher for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
He said he has published numerous papers on his South American archaeological research and plans to write a book and a series of journal articles about his Fulbright work in Peru.
Fulbright awards, named after late Senator J. William Fulbright, are grants to conduct research in other nations, established in an effort to increase the mutual understanding between different nations.
Created after World War II, they are designed to provide opportunities for members of U.S. academic communities to study or conduct research in 100 different nations.
Goldstein received another Fulbright in 1986 while conducting his doctoral research on the excavation of the Omo settlement in Peru.
Engineering Professor Erland Schulson won a Fulbright this year to conduct ice research in France. Kwang Kim '98 and Justin Stearns '98 also received Fulbright scholarships for the upcoming year and will study in Korea and Morocco respectively.
