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Michael Galaty received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin. He conducts field research in Albania, Greece, and Kosovo, focusing on prehistorian interests such as the origins of social inequality, the rise of state, political-economic change, archaeometry, and techniques like ICP-MS and PXRF. His book, 'Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania,' won the 2014 Society for American Archaeology Book Award. In Albania, he worked with the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP) from 1998 to 2003, which surveyed the hinterland of the large Classical city of Apollonia to investigate interactions between colonial Greeks and local Illyrians. From 2004 to 2008, he co-directed the Shala Valley Project (SVP), which excavated a prehistoric hillfort called Grunas and published its findings in 2013. Additionally, he co-directed the Projekti Arkeologjik Shkodrës (PASH) from 2010 to 2014, studying the emergence of hill forts and burial mounds in northern Albania. In Greece, he worked on Mycenaean archaeology, and more recently, he launched the Regional Archaeology Peja Istog Districts Kosova (RAPID-K) project in 2018.
Department of Sociology