Alexandra Slucky

Steering committee member

Student representative

Alexandra Slucky is an environmental archaeologist focused on archaeobotany. She is currently a doctoral researcher at The University of York in the UK in the Department of Archaeology with BioArCH, studying Central Asian Environmental and Bioarchaeology, focusing on urban medieval archaeobotany and isotopic analysis of the Silk Roads. She is the current lead archaeobotanist for two research projects with the Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes Project (CAAL): the Ancient Merv Project at Merv, Turkmenistan and Kesken-Kuyuk Kala in Kazakhstan. She researches agricultural management practices and culinary subsistence primarily between the Islamic and Mongol Conquests in Central Asia [7-13th centuries CE].