Catherine Kearns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Kearns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearns |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3443-6411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond metrics of resilience and survival in Mediterranean landscape archaeologies
In recent years, alongside increasing interest in collapse narratives, Mediterranean landscape archaeologists have turned to resilience theory and concepts like sustainability to examine the complexity of social responses to environmental stress and to counter a predominant focus on catastrophism and decline. Yet the revamping of systems theory has its pitfalls, most notably in its reductionist language, its sidelining of human agency and its pri…
Everyday Climates: Household Archaeologies and the Politics of Scale
The small scale is recognized as a necessary rebuttal to macroscalar narratives of climate–society relationships in the past, and archeologists and historians have increasingly turned to advocating smaller and shorter scales of analysis and interpretation, from “microclimates” to interannual droughts and single settlement histories. Such provocations rightly caution against the dangers of oversimplification and determinism in recent planetary or …
Climate the Antagonist
Some days I think that if we lose the climate battle, it'll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Pugilistic or militaristic metaphors are everywhere in conversations on environmental crises, not least in the perceived trenches of climate change. The “fight like hell” that Solnit incites belongs to a broader semantic fiel…
Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology
Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World
Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus
Archaeological survey methods combined with geophysical reconnaissance and test excavations offer systematic ways to shed light on ancient landscapes and settlements in regions considered passive “backwaters” on the edges of more well-known states or urban configurations. For the island of Cyprus, such rural places developing during the Iron Age (ca. 11th–4th centuries b.c.) are understudied, despite evidence for diverse and complex regional occu…
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population by Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Reviewed by: Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population by Gabriel Zuchtriegel Catherine Kearns Gabriel Zuchtriegel. Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 272. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-41903-1. As Zuchtriegel notes in the introduction to this timely contribution to the study of ancient …
Cyprus in the Surging Sea: Spatial Imaginations of the Eastern Mediterranean
Cyprus was a principal venue in classical antiquity where Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern worlds encountered one another, and yet it remains a type of backwater, excluded from dominant historical narratives of the first millennia b.c.e. and c.e. I argue that this construct reproduces ancient otherings of the island, which developed via persistent yet fluid topoi of liminality. Three registers of etic spatial imaginations – location and distance, e…
Mediterranean archeology and environmental histories in the spotlight of the Anthropocene
The last two decades have seen increasing scientific and humanistic research about anthropogenic impacts on earth systems such as climate, leading to a controversial proposal that we are living in an Anthropocene epoch, when humans have become unprecedented forces of global change. The status of the Anthropocene as a historiographical period poses an opportunity to consider how archeologists and historians conceive of environmental and social cha…
Re-survey and spatial analysis of landscape developments during the first millennium BC on Cyprus
The narrative of socio-political development on the semi-arid island of Cyprus during the early first millennium BC (c. 1100-500) has focused largely on the institutions, practices and material culture of major centres and their interrelationships with growing maritime networks. Less studied are the landscapes surrounding these coastal and inland towns, which helped condition the increasing wealth and power of authorities through the management o…
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Late Bronze Age Complex, Maroni, Cyprus
The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology, including in the Mediterranean. The place-making entailed in the development of urban settlement represents a fundamental change for a society; it creates over time a new urban mentalité and habitus, such that the urban fabric and place become an active part of social life, and its reproduction. While urbanism does not require the ‘sta…
Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium BC Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)
Recent studies of past built environments have shown that archaeologists can investigate successfully the role of buildings in constructions of identity and the production of society. Yet despite this attention to social life, ancient architectural forms are often still viewed as blueprints of ethnic style. Postcolonial arguments for hybridization, while contesting culture-historical labels, can still associate built forms with essentialized sign…
Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium BC Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)
Recent studies of past built environments have shown that archaeologists can investigate successfully the role of buildings in constructions of identity and the production of society. Yet despite this attention to social life, ancient architectural forms are often still viewed as blueprints of ethnic style. Postcolonial arguments for hybridization, while contesting culture-historical labels, can still associate built forms with essentialized sign…
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Late Bronze Age Complex, Maroni, Cyprus
The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology, including in the Mediterranean. The place-making entailed in the development of urban settlement represents a fundamental change for a society; it creates over time a new urban mentalité and habitus, such that the urban fabric and place become an active part of social life, and its reproduction. While urbanism does not require the ‘sta…
Mediterranean archeology and environmental histories in the spotlight of the Anthropocene
The last two decades have seen increasing scientific and humanistic research about anthropogenic impacts on earth systems such as climate, leading to a controversial proposal that we are living in an Anthropocene epoch, when humans have become unprecedented forces of global change. The status of the Anthropocene as a historiographical period poses an opportunity to consider how archeologists and historians conceive of environmental and social cha…
Climate the Antagonist
Some days I think that if we lose the climate battle, it'll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Pugilistic or militaristic metaphors are everywhere in conversations on environmental crises, not least in the perceived trenches of climate change. The “fight like hell” that Solnit incites belongs to a broader semantic fiel…
Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus
Archaeological survey methods combined with geophysical reconnaissance and test excavations offer systematic ways to shed light on ancient landscapes and settlements in regions considered passive “backwaters” on the edges of more well-known states or urban configurations. For the island of Cyprus, such rural places developing during the Iron Age (ca. 11th–4th centuries b.c.) are understudied, despite evidence for diverse and complex regional occu…
Cyprus in the Surging Sea: Spatial Imaginations of the Eastern Mediterranean
Cyprus was a principal venue in classical antiquity where Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern worlds encountered one another, and yet it remains a type of backwater, excluded from dominant historical narratives of the first millennia b.c.e. and c.e. I argue that this construct reproduces ancient otherings of the island, which developed via persistent yet fluid topoi of liminality. Three registers of etic spatial imaginations – location and distance, e…
Re-survey and spatial analysis of landscape developments during the first millennium BC on Cyprus
The narrative of socio-political development on the semi-arid island of Cyprus during the early first millennium BC (c. 1100-500) has focused largely on the institutions, practices and material culture of major centres and their interrelationships with growing maritime networks. Less studied are the landscapes surrounding these coastal and inland towns, which helped condition the increasing wealth and power of authorities through the management o…
Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium BC Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)
Recent studies of past built environments have shown that archaeologists can investigate successfully the role of buildings in constructions of identity and the production of society. Yet despite this attention to social life, ancient architectural forms are often still viewed as blueprints of ethnic style. Postcolonial arguments for hybridization, while contesting culture-historical labels, can still associate built forms with essentialized sign…
Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium BC Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)
Recent studies of past built environments have shown that archaeologists can investigate successfully the role of buildings in constructions of identity and the production of society. Yet despite this attention to social life, ancient architectural forms are often still viewed as blueprints of ethnic style. Postcolonial arguments for hybridization, while contesting culture-historical labels, can still associate built forms with essentialized sign…
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Late Bronze Age Complex, Maroni, Cyprus
The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology, including in the Mediterranean. The place-making entailed in the development of urban settlement represents a fundamental change for a society; it creates over time a new urban mentalité and habitus, such that the urban fabric and place become an active part of social life, and its reproduction. While urbanism does not require the ‘sta…
Re-survey and spatial analysis of landscape developments during the first millennium BC on Cyprus
The narrative of socio-political development on the semi-arid island of Cyprus during the early first millennium BC (c. 1100-500) has focused largely on the institutions, practices and material culture of major centres and their interrelationships with growing maritime networks. Less studied are the landscapes surrounding these coastal and inland towns, which helped condition the increasing wealth and power of authorities through the management o…
Mediterranean archeology and environmental histories in the spotlight of the Anthropocene
The last two decades have seen increasing scientific and humanistic research about anthropogenic impacts on earth systems such as climate, leading to a controversial proposal that we are living in an Anthropocene epoch, when humans have become unprecedented forces of global change. The status of the Anthropocene as a historiographical period poses an opportunity to consider how archeologists and historians conceive of environmental and social cha…
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population by Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Reviewed by: Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population by Gabriel Zuchtriegel Catherine Kearns Gabriel Zuchtriegel. Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 272. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-41903-1. As Zuchtriegel notes in the introduction to this timely contribution to the study of ancient …
Cyprus in the Surging Sea: Spatial Imaginations of the Eastern Mediterranean
Cyprus was a principal venue in classical antiquity where Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern worlds encountered one another, and yet it remains a type of backwater, excluded from dominant historical narratives of the first millennia b.c.e. and c.e. I argue that this construct reproduces ancient otherings of the island, which developed via persistent yet fluid topoi of liminality. Three registers of etic spatial imaginations – location and distance, e…
Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus
Archaeological survey methods combined with geophysical reconnaissance and test excavations offer systematic ways to shed light on ancient landscapes and settlements in regions considered passive “backwaters” on the edges of more well-known states or urban configurations. For the island of Cyprus, such rural places developing during the Iron Age (ca. 11th–4th centuries b.c.) are understudied, despite evidence for diverse and complex regional occu…
Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World
Trench Warfare at Enkomi: Personalities, Politics and Science in Cypriot Archaeology
Everyday Climates: Household Archaeologies and the Politics of Scale
The small scale is recognized as a necessary rebuttal to macroscalar narratives of climate–society relationships in the past, and archeologists and historians have increasingly turned to advocating smaller and shorter scales of analysis and interpretation, from “microclimates” to interannual droughts and single settlement histories. Such provocations rightly caution against the dangers of oversimplification and determinism in recent planetary or …
Climate the Antagonist
Some days I think that if we lose the climate battle, it'll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Pugilistic or militaristic metaphors are everywhere in conversations on environmental crises, not least in the perceived trenches of climate change. The “fight like hell” that Solnit incites belongs to a broader semantic fiel…
Beyond metrics of resilience and survival in Mediterranean landscape archaeologies
In recent years, alongside increasing interest in collapse narratives, Mediterranean landscape archaeologists have turned to resilience theory and concepts like sustainability to examine the complexity of social responses to environmental stress and to counter a predominant focus on catastrophism and decline. Yet the revamping of systems theory has its pitfalls, most notably in its reductionist language, its sidelining of human agency and its pri…
Archaeology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works)