2009 Recipients

Margaret Conkey is a professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeological Research Facility at the University of California, Berkeley. She has long been an Affiliated Faculty member in Women's Studies, and is on the Advisory Committee for the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality. In addition to her research and teaching interests in gender and feminist archaeology, she is a student of prehistoric, especially Paleolithic visual culture, and is carrying out a long-term field research project investigating the cultural landscapes of the late Paleolithic period in the French Midi-Pyrenees.