Ruth Tringham received her Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is is currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research has focused on the transformation of early agricultural (Neolithic) societies, directing and publishing archaeological excavations in Southeast Europe, and, since 1997, in Turkey, at the site of Çatalhöyük. Current research focuses on the life-histories of buildings and the construction of place. Much of her recent practice of archaeology incorporates the utilization of digital, especially multimedia, technology in the presentation of the process of archaeological interpretation, for example in the Chimera Web, about the Neolithic site of Opovo, Yugoslavia and her current project about Çatalhöyük, Dead Women Do Tell Tales. Since 1998, with Professors Conkey and Joyce and Dr. Michael Ashley she has incorporated multimedia authoring into teaching regular courses in archaeology by establishing the Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTiA). In 1998, she was awarded the Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Teaching for a plan to incorporate multimedia authoring into teaching regular courses in archaeology. She is now recognized internationally as one of the leaders of digital education and digital publishing in archaeology. In 2001 with her colleagues Meg Conkey, Rosemary Joyce, and Michael Ashley, she was awarded the Educational Initiatives Award for the innovative development of digital education in the Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTiA). This interest in multimedia grows out of a lifelong passion for music, puppets and cultivating illusions of reality.
Website:
http://www.mactia.berkeley.edu/tringham/aboutruth/default.html
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