Kathleen D Morrison

Kathleen D. Morrison is the Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology and Lead Curator, Asian Section, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Her research focuses on the historical ecology of Southern Asia, integrating paleoenvironmental analysis, archaeology, and history. She is currently engaged in projects that include a global database of Holocene land use and 'South Indian Landscape Trajectories', a study of long-term histories of economic, social, and environmental change....See more

Kathleen D. Morrison is the Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology and Lead Curator, Asian Section, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Her research focuses on the historical ecology of Southern Asia, integrating paleoenvironmental analysis, archaeology, and history. She is currently engaged in projects that include a global database of Holocene land use and 'South Indian Landscape Trajectories', a study of long-term histories of economic, social, and environmental change. She is the author of Fields of Victory: Vijayanagara and the Course of Intensification (1995); Daroji Valley: Landscape, Place, and the Making of a Dryland Reservoir System (2009); co-authored The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey (2007); and co-editor of The Social Lives of Forests (2014); Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia (2002); and Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (2001). See less