Jake Hubbert
Publications
2026 “Bread and Stone: Traditional Food and Homes in the South Caucasus” Backdirt (Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology), 85–87.
2024 “Medieval Caucasian Consumption and Identity: A Study of Splashed Sgraffito Wares.” Medieval Archaeology, 68(1). 24–47.
2023 “Transforming Religious and Monarchial Power: The Iron Gate of Ganja within the Gelati Monastery.” Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 10(1). 83–100.
Awards & Grants
2027 Pauley Award from the Division of Social Sciences (UCLA)
2026 Lemelson Seed Grant (UCLA)
2026 ARISC Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellowship
2025 Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (Russian)
2025 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
Conference Presentations
2026 Hubbert, Jake, “Abandoned and Rejected Heritage: The Case of Historic Meskhetian Mosques in the Republic of Georgia” at Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) annual conference, Chicago, Il.
2026 Armstrong, Brian, Cassandra Keily, Jake Hubbert, Andrew Mahisa Halim, Andrew Jameson, and Giorgi Bedianashvili, “Data to Deployment: Operationalising 34 Datasets for Use in Virtual REality Experiences: A Case Study on a Late Medieval Georgian Underground House” at Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) annual conference, Vianna, Austria.
2025 Hubbert, Jake, “Spheroconical Vessels and Changing Medical Practices in Medieval Dvin, Armenia” at Online Workshop: Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule II.
2025 Hubbert, Jake, “Soviet Repatriation and the After Lives of Georgian Objects: A Case Study of the Khakhuli Triptych” at How to Repatriate the Material Heritage of the Middle East (and Beyond)? Los Angeles, CA.
2025 Hubbert, Jake, “Birding in Byzantium: Bird Sounds and Songs within the Soundscapes of Byzantine Churches” at East Meets West: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Greece’s History and Culture, Sacramento, CA.
