Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2655
E-Mail:	c.m.nakamura@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
Office Address:	Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 1.24b

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Fields of interest

• Social Archaeology

• Material Culture

• Anthropology of magic

• Global Heritage (Suburban Mumbai and informal communities)

• Mesopotamia

• Prehistoric Anatolia

Research

• Heritage Fault-lines: Buddhist and Hindu Caves and Colonial Forts in Suburban Mumbai (2009-present)
• Çatalhöyük Research Project, Konya, Turkey (Figurines and burial goods, 2004-present)
• The Matter of Magic: Figuring Memory and Protection in Neo-Assyrian Apotropaic Figurine Rituals, First Millennium BC (PhD, 2008)

Teaching activities

Courses taught (Stanford University):

• Object Lessons

• Magic, Science and Religion

• History of Archaeological Thought

• Archaeology of Modern Urbanism

• World Archaeology and Global Heritage

Curriculum Vitae

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA
  Lecturer, Department of Anthropology (2008-2010)
• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
  Ph.D. Anthropology (2008)
• REED COLLEGE, PORTLAND, OREGON
  B.A. Chemistry (1995)
  

Key publications

• Nakamura, C (2010)
  Finding Magic: A Matter of Time and Place? In Spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of civilization. Çatalhöyük as a case study. ed. Ian Hodder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Nakamura, C and Meskell, L (2009)
  Articulate Bodies: Forms and Figures at Çatalhöyük. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16(3): 205-230.
• Meskell, L, Nakamura, C; King, R, Farid, S (2008)
  Figured Lifeworlds and Depositional Practices at Çatahöyük. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 18(2): 139-161.
• Nakamura, C (2005)
  Mastering Matters: Magical Sense and The Figurine Worlds of Neo-Assyria. In Archaeologies of Materiality, Oxford: Blackwell, ed. Lynn Meskell, pp. 18-45.
• Nakamura, C (2004)
  Dedicating Magic: Neo-Assyrian Apotropaic Figurines and the Protection of Assur.
  World Archaeology: 36(1): 11-25.