Sara Ann Knutson
Biographic Data
| ID | 343210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Ann Knutson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Knutson |
| SIGNATURE | KNUTSON S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4262-3401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transforming the Teaching and Learning of Middle East Studies with Student Partners
This article reflects on opportunities for Middle East studies practitioners to engage relational pedagogies in their practices of teaching and learning in higher education. In particular, students as partners (SaP) has become an accepted approach to achieving pedagogical transformations, including curriculum cocreation and redesign. We discuss our experiences with a funded SaP course redesign project and our partnership, consisting of a history …
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks
Conversion’ to Islam in Early Medieval Europe
In recent years, the influence of Muslims and Islam on developments in medieval Europe has captured the attention of scholars and the general public alike. Nevertheless, ‘conversion’ to Islam remains a challenging subject for historical research and demands more transdisciplinary collaborations. This article examines early medieval interactions between Muslim Arabs and Northern and Eastern Europeans as a case study for whether some individuals in…
An Archaeology of Diasporas
When Objects Misbehave
This article explores new possibilities for the interpretation of myths. It asks how people in the past configured their world and its complex interactions, to which their orally-constructed stories bear witness. It is assumed here that myths contain structures of belief, cognition, and world-making beyond their immediate subject matter. This article focuses specifically on the preservation of material objects in myths throughout their transmissi…
Archaeology and the silk road model
In modern scholarship, the 'Silk Road' is used as a broad framework for networked exchanges across ancient Eurasia, periodized roughly between the Han dynasty's lucrative silk trade and the decline of the Mongol Empire (ca. 200 BCE to 1400 CE). This paper identifies the 'Silk Road' as an important analytical model for archaeological research on transregional and global-scale phenomena. I argue that Silk Road scholarship has often engaged four key…
The Materiality of Myth
The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myths, carries underexplored traces of belief systems and the material experience of Iron Age Scandinavia (400–1000 CE). This paper proposes an archaeological reading of Norse mythology to help explain how ancient Scandinavians understood the presence and role of deities, magic, and the supernatural in everyday life. The Norse myths retain records of m…
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks
Archaeology and the silk road model
In modern scholarship, the 'Silk Road' is used as a broad framework for networked exchanges across ancient Eurasia, periodized roughly between the Han dynasty's lucrative silk trade and the decline of the Mongol Empire (ca. 200 BCE to 1400 CE). This paper identifies the 'Silk Road' as an important analytical model for archaeological research on transregional and global-scale phenomena. I argue that Silk Road scholarship has often engaged four key…
Conversion’ to Islam in Early Medieval Europe
In recent years, the influence of Muslims and Islam on developments in medieval Europe has captured the attention of scholars and the general public alike. Nevertheless, ‘conversion’ to Islam remains a challenging subject for historical research and demands more transdisciplinary collaborations. This article examines early medieval interactions between Muslim Arabs and Northern and Eastern Europeans as a case study for whether some individuals in…
The Materiality of Myth
The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myths, carries underexplored traces of belief systems and the material experience of Iron Age Scandinavia (400–1000 CE). This paper proposes an archaeological reading of Norse mythology to help explain how ancient Scandinavians understood the presence and role of deities, magic, and the supernatural in everyday life. The Norse myths retain records of m…
An Archaeology of Diasporas
When Objects Misbehave
This article explores new possibilities for the interpretation of myths. It asks how people in the past configured their world and its complex interactions, to which their orally-constructed stories bear witness. It is assumed here that myths contain structures of belief, cognition, and world-making beyond their immediate subject matter. This article focuses specifically on the preservation of material objects in myths throughout their transmissi…
Archaeology and the silk road model
In modern scholarship, the 'Silk Road' is used as a broad framework for networked exchanges across ancient Eurasia, periodized roughly between the Han dynasty's lucrative silk trade and the decline of the Mongol Empire (ca. 200 BCE to 1400 CE). This paper identifies the 'Silk Road' as an important analytical model for archaeological research on transregional and global-scale phenomena. I argue that Silk Road scholarship has often engaged four key…
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks
Conversion’ to Islam in Early Medieval Europe
In recent years, the influence of Muslims and Islam on developments in medieval Europe has captured the attention of scholars and the general public alike. Nevertheless, ‘conversion’ to Islam remains a challenging subject for historical research and demands more transdisciplinary collaborations. This article examines early medieval interactions between Muslim Arabs and Northern and Eastern Europeans as a case study for whether some individuals in…
Transforming the Teaching and Learning of Middle East Studies with Student Partners
This article reflects on opportunities for Middle East studies practitioners to engage relational pedagogies in their practices of teaching and learning in higher education. In particular, students as partners (SaP) has become an accepted approach to achieving pedagogical transformations, including curriculum cocreation and redesign. We discuss our experiences with a funded SaP course redesign project and our partnership, consisting of a history …
Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)