Rate My Professor Timothy Chevral

Timothy Chevral, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University at Buffalo. He also serves as Chair of the Department of Environment and Sustainability. Chevral holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests in Anthropology include archaeological theory; complex societies; colonialism; ethnicity and identity; conflict and conflict resolution; political ecology; pastoralism; agricultural intensification; landscape archaeology; regional analysis; ethnohistory; archaeological chemistry; European archaeology; Iron Age, Medieval, and Early Modern Scandinavia and Ireland. Additional research interests comprise political ecology; historical ecology; shared governance; conflict and conflict resolution; past and present urban sustainability; marginal lands and occupational pluralism; historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; archaeological chemistry; regional analysis.

Chevral publishes under the name T. L. Thurston. Books include Landscapes of power, landscapes of conflict: state formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age (2001, Springer Scientific, New York); Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change (co-edited with Christopher T. Fisher, 2007, Springer Scientific Publishing New York); Re-imagining Regional Analyses: The Archaeology of Spatial and Social Dynamics (co-edited with Roderick B. Salisbury, 2009, CSP, Cambridge); Power from Below in Premodern Societies: The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record (co-edited with Martin Fernández-Götz, 2021, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? I: Ancient Urban Regions and the Durable Future (co-authored with C. L. Crumley et al., 2022, TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment). Articles and chapters include "Climate futures at play: performing environmental public humanities" (with K. Stewart et al., 2025, Public Humanities); "Old cities, 'new' agendas: Swedish cities across time" (with C. Pettersson, 2024, Urban Studies); "Regions, groups, and identity: An intellectual history" (2023, Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age); "Reversals of fortune: Shared governance, “democracy,” and reiterated problem-solving" (2022, Frontiers in Political Science); "Power from Below in the Archaeological Record: Trends and Trajectories" (2021, Cambridge University Press); "An Archaeological Assessment of Global Land Use from 10,000 BP to 1850 CE" (with L. Stephens et al., 2019, Science); "‘Can you hear me now?’ Heterarchy as an instrument and outcome of collective action" (2019, Routledge); "Livelihood and resilience in a marginal northern environment: 1000 years on the Småland Plateau" (2019, SUNY Press); "There is no means by which I live: livelihood and power at the margins of the state" (2018, Archaeological Papers of the AAA No. 29); "Enduring Nations and Emergent States: rulership, subjecthood, and power in early Scandinavia" (2016, University Press of Colorado); "Surplus from Below: Self Organization of Production in Early Historic Northern Europe" (2015, University Press of Colorado); "Bitter Arrows and Generous Gifts: What Was a King in the European Iron Age?" (2010, Springer Scientific Publishing).