US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology

Christina Luke is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program and Anthropology Department and a Senior Research Associate Professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology from Cornell University. Her current work focuses on cultural heritage policy and legal implementation in the United States as well as archaeological landscapes and heritage management in western Turkey. She worked for two years in the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of State and for four years directing programs for the Cultural Heritage Center and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She is co-director with Christopher H. Roosevelt of the Central Lydia Archaeological Survey (CLAS) in western Turkey. She is the recipient of a 2010-2011 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant and is living in Izmir, Turkey. Morag M. Kersel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University. She earned her PhD from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers the legal remedies employed by countries in the Eastern Mediterranean to protect against archaeological site destruction as a result of the market demand for archaeological artifacts. From 2000–2003 she administered the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation at the U.S. Department of State. She co-directs with Meredith S. Chesson the "Follow the Pots" project in Jordan – an innovative investigation into the multiple social lives of archaeological artifacts. She is also a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, where she is the co-director with Yorke Rowan of the Galilee Prehistory Project.

"Such a methodological approach, richly supported by experience, multi-archival primary sources, and cross-disciplinary connections, provides theoreticians, students, and practitioners with a fuller understanding of "another element of the diplomatic toolkit." Summing Up: Highly recommended." – G. Donato, Bentley University, in CHOICE"In archaeology it is impossible, no matter what your nationality or where you conduct research, to escape the fallout from US interventions. This book effectively charts those effects and future ramifications for host countries and researchers. It exposes our constitutive disciplinary inheritances and responsibilities for the future." – Lynn Meskell, Stanford University"This book faces a double task. It has to show that archeology is relevant to the practice and understanding of American cultural diplomacy and it has to document exactly what that relevance is. Fortunately, the authors accomplish both tasks admirably...Christina Luke and Morgan M. Kersel know their subject” - Nicholas J. Cull, ID: International Dialogue

• 1. Introduction: Archaeology and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy 2. The Tea Circuit: Foreign Centers, Archaeology, and U.S. Cultural Policy 3. Archaeological Permits and Hostage Objects 4. Hard Borders, Soft Loans 5. Securing Heritage: The Hard Power Approach 6. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 7. Lessons Learned: The Future of Cultural Relations and Archaeology Notes References Index