SUNY Oneonta News

September 21, 2009
 

PRESENTATION AT SUNY ONEONTA TO EXAMINE CITY IN ANCIENT PERU

 

ONEONTA, N.Y. --  Dr. William H. Isbell, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Anthropology Department at Binghamton University, will present a lecture entitled "The City in Ancient Peru" on Thursday, October 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center at the SUNY College at Oneonta. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.

Dr. Isbell, who has taught at Binghamton University for 38 years, is an archaeologist specializing in the prehistoric cultures of Andean South America. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, and private foundations for his archaeological research in Peru and Bolivia. The author of ten books, Dr. Isbell has taught as a Fulbright visiting professor in Ayacucho’s National University of Huamanga and Lima’s Catholic University of Peru. He has been named a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks three times.

Dr. Isbell’s presentation is co-sponsored by the SUNY Oneonta History Department, History Club, and Public Events Committee. More information is available from the History Department, at (607) 436-3326.
 

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