Liberal Arts

Diane Lichtenstein

Title Professor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7362

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Courses  Anthropology | Human Antiquity

Diane Lichtenstein MA and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art. She teaches cultural anthropology and other area studies courses, including traditional art of non-western cultures. She has conducted anthropological and archaeological fieldwork in east Africa, Pakistan, Egypt and India. She maintains a long-term research interest in South Asian prehistory and has co-authored several articles focusing on archaeological details of the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization. She has taken CIA students to India on five archaeological fieldtrips for excavations at a prehistoric site in South India.

Degree PhD, University of Wisconsin; MA, University of Wisconsin; BA, Anthropology with a minor in African Studies and French from Indiana University