Interview with Meg Conkey
Interview with Meg Conkey

Summary/Abstract: Margaret W. (“Meg”) Conkey is Professor Emerita of the University of California at Berkeley, which she joined in 1987, after positions at the State University of New York at Binghamton and San Jose State University. Meg took her PhD from the University of Chicago and has made significant contributions to our understanding of the European Palaeolithic, prehistoric art and symbolism, and a feminist and gendered archaeology. Current fieldwork includes the Between the Caves project in the French Midi-Pyrenees. In 1997, she was awarded the 1960 Professor of Anthropology Endowed Chair at Berkeley. In 2009, Berkeley awarded her the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence for her work to promote diversity and equal opportunity. Meg has also won the Distinguished Teaching Award (1996) and the Award for Educational Initiatives (2001). Meg has served widely and with distinction both locally as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology and as Director of Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility, as well as being the President of the Society of American Archaeology. Her 1984 article, Archaeology and the study of gender, written with Janet Spector, and her 1991 book Engendering the Past: Women and Prehistory (co-edited with Joan Gero) are widely regarded as the seminal statements in the history of a gendered and feminist archaeology.

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