Kathryn J. Franklin
Kathryn Franklin is an anthropological archaeologist working on the intersections between local and world as mediated by travel, trade and political projects in the 12th-15th centuries, and with a focus on the territory of the modern Republic of Armenia. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2014; her doctoral work develops the concept of cosmopolitanism in a late medieval context, as a practice of situated world-making. She is currently a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and working as a specialist on archaeological heritage analysis consultant to the Oriental Institute of Chicago.