Gender-based Violence and Discrimination in Middle Eastern and North African Fieldwork

Summary

In 2014, inspired by the work on gender-based violence in field settings done by anthropologists Clancy, Nelson, Rutherford, and Hinde, I began investigating field safety for archaeologists working in the Middle East and North Africa, the region in which I work. At that time, I was a trustee of the American Schools of Oriental Research – and I chair its Initiative on the Status of Women. I began by quantifying problems (Survey on Field Safety: Middle East, North Africa, and The Mediterranean Basin: 2014, 2015), looking at gender-based violence and discrimination in field assignments and in post-field research and publication.

My goals are to: determine factors contributing to safe/unsafe fieldwork environments; determine best practices and effective ways to implement them; develop standards, policies, protocols and trainings to educate excavators about relevant ethics and laws for field and research projects; and, under ASOR’s auspices, provide all excavators with much-needed information. At The University of Arizona, I work with the offices of Title IX, Global Initiatives (Study Abroad), and the Dean of Students, and I am involved with the new Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence. This presentation discusses the various components of this project.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21738