Alison Carter
Alison Carter is a fourth-year graduate student studying archaeology. Her research is on the archaeology of mainland Southeast Asia, with a focus on the trade and exchange networks between South Asia and Southeast Asia and within Southeast Asia, specifically Cambodia, during the late Iron Age and Early Historic period. As part of her research she will be analyzing glass and stone beads. In 2006 she conducted a research project with PhD candidate Randall Law, sourcing agate from India, Iran, and Thailand using Neutron Activation Analysis. The research was presented at the conference for the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna Italy in July 2007.
Alison has fieldwork experience in Cambodia (with support from the Oberlin Alumni Fund and Center for Southeast Asian Studies) working with the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project in 2005 and in Thailand with the Origins of Angkor project at the site of Ban Non Wat, Thailand. In January 2008 she is traveling to Cambodia to begin dissertation research with support from the Center from Khmer Studies and Fulbright IIE. Alison has also taken two years of intensive Khmer through the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI).
