CMS is thrilled to announce that CMS affiliate Dr. Megan Daniels has been awarded the prestigious UBC Killam Research Fellowship, as part of the Faculty Research Awards 2024.
UBC Killam Research Fellowships
The UBC Killam Research Fellowships provide faculty members with support to pursue full-time research during a recognized study leave. These prestigious fellowships enable recipients to make significant advancements in their fields, contributing to UBC’s reputation for research excellence.
The Office of the VP, Research and Innovation will be hosting a reception on June 5, 2025 to acknowledge the achievements of the awarded researchers. Congratulations to all recipients!
Dr. Megan Daniels is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and the co-coordinator of the CMS Mobilities research group. Her research focuses on cross-cultural interaction in the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 1500–500 BCE). A major component of these broad interests involves interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ancient migration, emphasizing human development through migration and mobility rather than discrete cultures. This focus led to her recent edited volume, Homo Migrans: Modelling Mobility and Migration in Human History (SUNY Press, 2022). The volume examines archaeology’s long and problematic engagement with the study of “cultural groups” and incorporates recent advancements in genetics and other hard sciences, alongside evolving interests in ancient globalization and interconnectivity. She continues to develop a research profile that includes a historiography of migration studies in archaeology over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the relationship between archaeological studies of migration and broader public and political sentiments toward migrants.
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