Spelling a Nation’s Name
An archaeologist grappling with the recent history of war and genocide in the Balkans dives into the debate over how to name the territory known as either “Kosova” or “Kosovo.”
Erina Baci
Erina Baci is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the University of Michigan. She received her M.A. from Mississippi State University and her B.A. from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation research consists of settlement pattern analyses to explore questions of settlement, movement, and mobility in human communities from the end of the Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age in present-day Western Kosova and Northern Albania. Baci is currently the geodatabase manager for RAPID-Kosova, an archaeological survey project based in Western Kosova. She shares her writing and other resources on the blog The Albanian Archaeologist.