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Scott Ortman's GINI Project Awarded an 2025 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award

SAF2025 Stage with Scott Ortman at the Podium.

The GINI (Global Dynamics of Inequality) project (led by Amy Bogaard, Tim Kohler (WSU) and Scott Ortman (CU Boulder)) was awarded a 2025 Shanghai Archaeology Forum research award. GINI is a large-scale international collaboration that culminated in a PNAS Special Feature on long-term inequality, published in April, 2025. The project has included contributions by Oxford archaeologists Shadreck Chirikure, Helena Hamerow and Jack Hanson. The collaboration is one of 10 international projects which will be celebrated at the SAF annual meeting in Shanghai this week, selected from 140 nominations. 

Read the feature in PNAS

Learn more about the award CFAS