Lauren Morris

 

Lauren Morris, Dr. phil.

 

E-mail: lauren.morris@ff.cuni.cz

Telephone: (+420) 221619725

 

Lauren Morris studied Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Sydney in Australia. She earned her PhD at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany in 2017, with a dissertation re-evaluating the Begram hoard – a significant find excavated by archaeologists of the Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan in the 1930s. In Munich, she was also a doctoral fellow at the Graduate School Distant Worlds. Between 2017 and 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project Beyond the Silk Road (BaSaR) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Since 2023 she is a senior researcher at the Institute.

Her specialization is in the antique period of southern Central Asia, with particular interests in economic history, the Kushan period, cultural change, interaction across Afro-Eurasia, and the intellectual history of archaeology in Central and South Asia. She has participated in fieldwork in Cyprus, Spain, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, has undertaken archival research in France, and research in Afghanistan.

She is Principal Investigator of the project Rural life in a changing world: new light on economic development and inequality in Central Asia under the Kushan Empire (PRIMUS/23/HUM/013). This project is funded through the PRIMUS Research Programme, with fieldwork in Uzbekistan conducted under the auspices of the Czech-Uzbek Archaeological Expedition.

Publications

 

  • Morris, L., R. Mairs, and M. Zellmann-Rohrer. 2022: The temple inscription from Khwaja Ali Sehyaka/Sehyak. In: W. B. Trousdale and M. Allen, The archaeology of southwest Afghanistan. Volume 1: Survey and excavation. Edinburgh University Press, 672–685.
  • Morris, L. 2021: The Begram hoard and its context. PhD Dissertation, Electronic Theses, LMU München, 10.5282/edoc.28897.
  • Morris, L. 2021: Excavations of the Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan at Begram (1936-46). In: E. Errington, Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833–1838. British Museum Research Publications, 20–34.
  • Morris, L. 2021: Economic development under the Greek Kingdoms of Central Asia to the Kushan Empire: Empire, migration, and monasteries. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: Local, imperial, and regional economies. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 695-744.
  • Weaverdyck, E. J. S., L. Fabian, L. Morris, M. Dwivedi, K. Leese-Messing. 2021: Constituting local and imperial landscapes. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: Local, imperial, and regional economies. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 301–366.
  • Morris, L. 2021: Tools of economic activity from the Greek Kingdoms of Central Asia to the Kushan Empire. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro- Eurasian economies. Volume 2: Local, imperial, and regional economies. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 449-490.
  • Morris, L. 2021: Economic actors under the Greek Kingdoms of Central Asia to the Kushan Empire. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: Local, imperial, and regional economies. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 159–208.
  • Morris, L. 2020: Roman objects in the Begram hoard and the memory of Greek rule in Kushan Central Asia. In: R. Mairs (ed.), The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world. Routledge, 580–592.
  • Morris, L. 2019: Constructing ancient Central Asia’s economic history. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 1: Contexts. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 669–692.
  • Morris, L. 2019: Evidence for Central Asia. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 1: Contexts. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 381–423.
  • Morris, L. 2019: Central Asian empires. In: S. von Reden et al. (eds.), Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 1: Contexts. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 53–94.
  • von Reden, S., M. Dwivedi, L. Fabian, K. Leese-Messing, L. Morris, E. Weaverdyck (eds.) 2019: Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies. Volume 1: Contexts. De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
  • Morris, L. 2019: Review: O. Bordeaux, Les Grecs en Inde: politiques et pratiques monétaires (III s.a.C. – Ier s.p.C.). Numismatica antiqua, 8. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2018, Pp. 324. BMCR. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019-06-09.html
  • Morris, L. 2017: Revised dates for the deposition of the Begram hoard and occupation at the New Royal City. Parthica 19, 75–104.
  • Bledsoe, A., F. Heil, L. Morris (eds.) 2017: Dealing with antiquity: case studies and methodological considerations in the ethical engagement of ancient materials, Distant Worlds Journal, No. 2.
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