ALLISON CUNEO JOINS Â鶹ֱ²¥’S CULTURAL HERITAGE INITIATIVE TEAM
Allison Cuneo joined the full-time staff in June as Project Manager for Â鶹ֱ²¥ Cultural Heritage Initiatives. She will be managing and providing logistical and research support for Â鶹ֱ²¥â€™s Syrian Heritage Initiative. Her email address is asorhert@bu.edu.
Allison is an archaeologist specializing in heritage management. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University and her dissertation concerns the protection of cultural sites in Iraq. Her work revolves around the management of threatened cultural resources and involving local communities in archaeological research. She also has an MA in Archaeological Heritage Management from Boston University, which focused on the protection of cultural property during armed conflict. She came to BU via a Presidential Fellowship and is now instructing an undergraduate course titled “Great Discoveries in Archaeology” for the department. Prior to Â鶹ֱ²¥, Allison was the Program Manager for the Mosul University Archaeology Program, part of the Iraq University Linking Program (ULP) funded by the US Embassy to design and implement online courses and real-time video conferences with Mosul University and conduct cultural study programs in the US and in Iraq. She has ten years of archaeological fieldwork experience in Iraq, England, Spain, Greece, and Israel.
Allison is originally from South Jersey but has called Boston her home for seven years. She is an avid photographer and enjoys finding the hidden gems of her adopted city.
