Laura Junker
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Laura L. Junker
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Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Ph.D. University of Michigan 1990
Room 2138-B BSB   (312) 996-3116   ljunker@uic.edu
 
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Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Complex Societies, Maritime Trade, Ceramic Production; Southeast Asia
   
Personal Statement
  
I am an archaeologist and ethnohistorian interested in the political economy of late first millennium to mid-second millennium A.D. maritime trading polities of island Southeast Asia, primarily the Philippines. I have carried out archaeological research in the Tanjay Region of the Philippines for two decades and in other regions of Southeast Asia, publishing on such topics as foreign trade, ritual feasting, specialized pottery production, forager-farmer interactions, and warfare.

Dr. Junker is editor of the publication Asian Perspectives, along with Field Museum Curator Dr. Anne Underhill.
    
Selected Publications
  
2002 (With Kathleen Morrison)  Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long Term Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2002   Long-Term Change and Short-Term Shifting In the Economy of Philippine Forager-Traders. In Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change In Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems. Ben Fitzhugh and Junko Habu, eds.

1999   Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

1998   Integrating History and Archaeology In the Study of Contact Period Philippine Chiefdoms. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2(4): 291-320.

1996   Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Lowland Trade in the Prehispanic Philippines. World Archaeology 27(3): 389-410.