Sabina Cveček
@sabinacvecek.bsky.social
Anthropologist | Kinship & households in Anatolia & Aegean | MSCA Global Fellow @ Field Museum, Chicago & ÖAW, Vienna | Fellow @ Royal Anthropological Institute | Co-🪑 @ EAA Archaeology & Gender in Europe | FirstGen | She/her 🇪🇺🇸🇮🇦🇹🇺🇸 | www.sabinacvecek.com
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Sabina Cveček
@sabinacvecek.bsky.social
· Oct 28
Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published!
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Beyond Genetics: Exploring Aspects of
Non-Biological Kinship in Prehistoric Times
This article explores alternative ways of
conceptualizing kinship in prehistoric contexts beyond the confines of genetic
reductionism. While ancient DNA research has revitalized interest in the
archae...
www.sciepublish.com
🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
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Sonia #guajajara, a longtime #indigenous activist before being appointed a minister, speaks at #cop30
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/indigenous-lands-must-be-recognised-as-part-of-climate-policy-says-brazilian-minister
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/indigenous-lands-must-be-recognised-as-part-of-climate-policy-says-brazilian-minister
Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister
Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industry
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Sonia #guajajara, a longtime #indigenous activist before being appointed a minister, speaks at #cop30
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/indigenous-lands-must-be-recognised-as-part-of-climate-policy-says-brazilian-minister
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/indigenous-lands-must-be-recognised-as-part-of-climate-policy-says-brazilian-minister
Reposted by Sabina Cveček
“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”
🙌 Excited about tomorrow's talk and a round table on "Interpreting Ancient DNA" moderated by Meg Conkey at the Archaeological Research Facility - Berkeley. If you are in the Bay Area, join us! @arf-ucb.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA
events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...
events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...
Interpreting Ancient DNA: A Panel Discussion
Ancient DNA studies have been exploding in the last decades and have yielded a large range of provocative and revelatory interpretations, not just ...
events.berkeley.edu
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🙌 Excited about tomorrow's talk and a round table on "Interpreting Ancient DNA" moderated by Meg Conkey at the Archaeological Research Facility - Berkeley. If you are in the Bay Area, join us! @arf-ucb.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology #ancientDNA
events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...
events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/31...
Reposted by Sabina Cveček
‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z
‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z
The director wants London’s long-awaited institution to ignite creative passion in the Gen Z visitors it’s aimed at. As he unveils the building and its contents, can he pull it off?
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
‘Young people can come in and have life-changing moments’: Gus Casely-Hayford on V&A East, a new museum for Gen Z
🏃🏾♂️🏃♀️Chicago Marathon may be famous but today’s Hot Chocolate Run was Delicious! #Chicago #Running #Autumn #HotChocolate
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🏃🏾♂️🏃♀️Chicago Marathon may be famous but today’s Hot Chocolate Run was Delicious! #Chicago #Running #Autumn #HotChocolate
Reposted by Sabina Cveček
“Care for the dead has long been a way of defining what it means to be human,” @theprofrog.bsky.social writes in Graveyards. Read an excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social:
The Ancient Burial Rituals That Have Shaped How We Treat Our Dead
In 1907, Robert Hertz, a French sociologist of religion, published an influential essay called “A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death.” He argued that in most human …
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November 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Care for the dead has long been a way of defining what it means to be human,” @theprofrog.bsky.social writes in Graveyards. Read an excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social:
Reposted by Sabina Cveček
The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove" by Ceri Shipton et al., available #openaccess!
📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R
#PaperOfTheMonth
📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R
#PaperOfTheMonth
October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is "Turning-the-edge, Tranchet, and Social Signalling at Boxgrove" by Ceri Shipton et al., available #openaccess!
📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R
#PaperOfTheMonth
📚 https://cup.org/3Wwdk1R
#PaperOfTheMonth
Reposted by Sabina Cveček
1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!
🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published!
@anahcorral.bsky.social @sabinacvecek.bsky.social
www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...
@anahcorral.bsky.social @sabinacvecek.bsky.social
www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...
Beyond Genetics: Exploring Aspects of
Non-Biological Kinship in Prehistoric Times
This article explores alternative ways of
conceptualizing kinship in prehistoric contexts beyond the confines of genetic
reductionism. While ancient DNA research has revitalized interest in the
archae...
www.sciepublish.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌟Delighted to see our collaborative paper integrating ethnography, archaeology, and ancient DNA published! It has been a joy brining such wonderful scholars together in #Vienna last year. Hopefully, the insights prove to be useful accross disciplinary boundaries. @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
🌎 Coming soon to Chicago!
On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️
Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding.
Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o
#MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago
On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️
Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding.
Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o
#MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🌎 Coming soon to Chicago!
On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️
Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding.
Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o
#MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago
On 6–7 Nov 2025, the Field Museum hosts the first MCAA Regional Meeting in North America 🏛️
Talks, roundtables & career sessions on MSCA & ERC funding.
Join us to connect minds across continents! bit.ly/42ZgU8o
#MCAA #MSCA #FieldMuseum #Chicago
🌟A powerful call for Writing In Community🌟 Inspired by archaeology, it centers care, joy, & #Collaboration over hierarchy & isolation. A refreshing & necessary vision for how #Anthropology (and academia) can do better producing knowledge together👇 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subd...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌟A powerful call for Writing In Community🌟 Inspired by archaeology, it centers care, joy, & #Collaboration over hierarchy & isolation. A refreshing & necessary vision for how #Anthropology (and academia) can do better producing knowledge together👇 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌟 Honored that my book Çukuriçi Höyük 4 (ÖAW Press, 2022) was reviewed by Dr. Daniel J. Pullen in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (@uchicagopress.bsky.social ): “Her socio-cultural anthropological perspective is one of the great strengths of this study.” #anthropology
📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr
📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🌟 Honored that my book Çukuriçi Höyük 4 (ÖAW Press, 2022) was reviewed by Dr. Daniel J. Pullen in Journal of Near Eastern Studies (@uchicagopress.bsky.social ): “Her socio-cultural anthropological perspective is one of the great strengths of this study.” #anthropology
📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr
📕 Open access 👉 bit.ly/4nZJJtr
🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology
Sabina Cveček - Archaeological Institute of America
AIA National Lecture Program Lecturer Sabina Cveček
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September 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology
🚪 A reminder of the power of open doors! I’ve written a blog about my ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) mentoring experience. Grateful to @walterscheidel.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at for helping make a difference across continents 🌍 bit.ly/4fJM0Gc
The Power of Open Doors: My Experience with the ASciNA Mentoring Program
Winning the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship has been a major milestone in my career, allowing me to pursue research I am passionate about and relocate to Chicago…
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August 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🚪 A reminder of the power of open doors! I’ve written a blog about my ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) mentoring experience. Grateful to @walterscheidel.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at for helping make a difference across continents 🌍 bit.ly/4fJM0Gc
Starting the day with a 3D printed Platia Magoula Zarkou house model, soon talking to the Field Museum Teen Volunteers about how I started in science and my current research projects. Working in a museum can be so fun! @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social #Anthropology #Archaeology #Kinship #Family
August 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Starting the day with a 3D printed Platia Magoula Zarkou house model, soon talking to the Field Museum Teen Volunteers about how I started in science and my current research projects. Working in a museum can be so fun! @oeaw.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social #Anthropology #Archaeology #Kinship #Family
🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!
The nature of Neolithic society is one of the most debated topics in archaeology–a debate that's almost impossible to settle w/ conventional methods alone. Now, new DNA data from a site in Turkey called Çatalhöyük points to a significant role for women: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
Stone Age farmers’ households passed from mother to daughter
Moms and daughters were at the center of the family in ancient Çatalhöyük, ancient DNA and archaeological evidence suggest
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!
I’m happy to share that I've been appointed to the position of Research Associate in the Division of #Anthropology at the @amnh.org / American Museum of Natural History in New York until June 2028! I am extremely grateful for this wonderful opportunity while remaining to work out of Chicago!
June 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I’m happy to share that I've been appointed to the position of Research Associate in the Division of #Anthropology at the @amnh.org / American Museum of Natural History in New York until June 2028! I am extremely grateful for this wonderful opportunity while remaining to work out of Chicago!
I am delighted to see my debate article “Enthrone, Dethrone, Rethrone: The Multiple Lives of Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory” appear in Archaeological Dialogues. Thanks to many for helping me developing this piece! It was fantastic 3 months as a fellow at @oeai.bsky.social in #Athens 2021!
New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 30, No. 2 (2023) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sabinacvecek.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I am delighted to see my debate article “Enthrone, Dethrone, Rethrone: The Multiple Lives of Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory” appear in Archaeological Dialogues. Thanks to many for helping me developing this piece! It was fantastic 3 months as a fellow at @oeai.bsky.social in #Athens 2021!
Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of #Chicago is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a fantastic lineup of speakers, including a lecture by Judith Butler. What a pleasure and privilege to learn about the many ways of theorizing the present!
April 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of #Chicago is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a fantastic lineup of speakers, including a lecture by Judith Butler. What a pleasure and privilege to learn about the many ways of theorizing the present!
✨Excited about heading to the Bay Area soon. ✨
I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...
I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...
Lunch Club Series | From kinship to household and back? Why kinship still needs anthropologists in the 21st century
events.stanford.edu
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
✨Excited about heading to the Bay Area soon. ✨
I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...
I'll be giving a talk at Stanford Archaeology Center on Wednesday, 16 April at 12:00 about my #X-KIN project, meeting with the #ASCINA mentor Walter Scheidel (@walterscheidel.bsky.social) and fellow #MSCA fellows. events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-...
Interested in pursuing a postdoc or PhD in Europe? MSCA info session organized by #EURAXESS North America is starting soon: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...
MSCA info session: EU funding for researcher mobility
Join us for a webinar on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European Union’s reference program for doctoral education and postdoctoral training.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
March 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Interested in pursuing a postdoc or PhD in Europe? MSCA info session organized by #EURAXESS North America is starting soon: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...
The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference was like attending a long-awaited family reunion. The event united scientists, research managers, and industry pros across generations and disciplines to strengthen global research, partnerships, and innovation. #MCAAConf2025
March 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference was like attending a long-awaited family reunion. The event united scientists, research managers, and industry pros across generations and disciplines to strengthen global research, partnerships, and innovation. #MCAAConf2025
New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Guidelines to help institutions and supervisors in guiding MSCA researchers. 👉 op.europa.eu/o/opportal-s... #MSCAConf2025 @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @barbarahorejs.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Guidelines to help institutions and supervisors in guiding MSCA researchers. 👉 op.europa.eu/o/opportal-s... #MSCAConf2025 @oeai.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @barbarahorejs.bsky.social
@marialep.bsky.social, the president of European Research Council @erc.europa.eu emphasizing the importance of science and promoting “Choose Europe” pilot program starting in 2025 at the #MCAAConf2025 in Krakow.
March 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@marialep.bsky.social, the president of European Research Council @erc.europa.eu emphasizing the importance of science and promoting “Choose Europe” pilot program starting in 2025 at the #MCAAConf2025 in Krakow.