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Franklin, Kate (2025) Guests, strangers, and those in need: cosmopolitanism as hospitality and making relations in High Medieval Armenia. In: Jezierski, W. and Kjaer, L. (eds.) Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies: Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Eurasian High Middle Ages. Cursor Mundi 45. Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503610924. (In Press)

Franklin, Kate and Babajanyan, A. (2025) Textual Layering, Landscape Memory and Medieval Places in Vayots Dzor, Armenia. European Journal of Archaeology , ISSN 1461-9571.

Babajanyan, A. and Franklin, Kate (2025) Medieval settlement excavations at Arpa, Armenia: regional context and chronology for a Silk Road Town. Near Eastern Archaeology 88 (1), ISSN 1094-2076.

Franklin, Kate and Derderian, D. and Baronian, M.A. (2024) Speaking for and with objects: a conversation with Kate Franklin. Etudes Arminiennes Contemporaines 16 , ISSN 2269-5281. (In Press)

Hunter, S. and Franklin, Kate and Hovsepyan, R. and Berlekamp, A. and McCorriston, J. (2024) Agricultural economies and provisioning relationships in medieval Armenia: an archaeobotanical analysis of Ambroyi village and Arai-Bazarjugh caravanserai. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany , ISSN 0939-6314.

Franklin, Kate (2024) Tyers, Theresa L. and Patricia Skinner, eds. Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages. Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023. 272 pages, £70 for hardback and epub. ISBN 978-1-83772-057-6. [Book Review]

Franklin, Kate (2023) Archaeology of the Silk Road: what lies ahead? Ancient Near East Today 11 (11),

Bintley, Mike and Franklin, Kate (2023) Landscapes and environments of the Middle Ages. Seminar Studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367640729. (In Press)

Franklin, Kate (2023) Archaeology of the Silk Road: challenges of scale and storytelling. Journal of Archaeological Research , ISSN 1059-0161.

Franklin, Kate (2023) From marvels to motels: imagined and infrastructural worlds of silk road travel. In: Barron, C.M. and Carlin, M. (eds.) Medieval Travel: Essays from the 2021 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies XXXIII. Shaun Tyas, pp. 109-124. ISBN 9781915774064. (In Press)

Franklin, Kate and Honarchian, A. (2021) 'Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Texts', David Zakarian. Brill Armenian Texts and Studies Series, Vol. 4. 2021. [Book Review]

Franklin, Kate and Boak, E. (2021) Early modern caravan networks in Afghanistan: a view from above. In: Clarkson, P. and Santoro, C. (eds.) Caravans in Global Perspective: Contexts and Boundaries. Routledge. ISBN 9780367773007. (In Press)

Franklin, Kate (2021) Everyday Cosmopolitanism: living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520380929.

Babajanyan, A. and Franklin, Kate (2021) Local canyons, global views: results of the Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey Project based on the 2015 – 2019 seasons. In: Avetisyan, P. and Bobokhyan, A. (eds.) Archaeology of Armenia in Regional Context. Proceedings of the International Conference dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. Yerevan, Armenia: National Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, pp. 397-412. ISBN 9789939886046.

Babayanjan, A. and Franklin, Kate (2021) Medieval Arpa at the intersection of caravan trade routes. In: Dalalyan, T. (ed.) Vayots Dzor: Historical and Cultural Heritage Studies. Yerevan: IAE Publications, pp. 231-249. ISBN 9789939886145.

Franklin, Kathryn (2020) Moving subjects, situated memory: thinking and seeing medieval travel on the Silk Road. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 24 , pp. 852-876. ISSN 1092-7697.

Babajanyan, A. and Franklin, Kathryn (2019) Medieval cultural landscape in Vayots Dzor within the context of the Silk Road. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY HAIA-3. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Yerevan, pp. 125-136. ISBN 9789939917894.

Franklin, Kathryn and Boak, E. (2019) The road from above: remotely sensed discovery of early modern travel infrastructure in Afghanistan. Archaeological Research in Asia 18 , pp. 40-54. ISSN 2352-2267.

Franklin, Kathryn (2019) Making worlds at the edge of everywhere: politics of place in medieval Armenia. In: Eger, A. (ed.) The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers: From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 9781607328780.

Babajanyan, A. and Franklin, Kathryn (2018) Everyday life on the medieval Silk road: VDSRS excavations at Arpa, Armenia. Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 12 (1), pp. 154-182. ISSN 1829-1376.

Hammer, E. and Seifried, R. and Franklin, Kathryn and Lauricella, A. (2018) Remote assessments of the archaeological heritage situation in Afghanistan. Journal of Cultural Heritage 33 , pp. 125-144. ISSN 1296-2074.

Franklin, Kathryn and Hammer, E. (2018) Untangling palimpsest landscapes using remotely sensed techniques in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. Journal of Field Archaeology 43 (1), pp. 58-73. ISSN 0093-4690.

Franklin, Kathryn and Babajanyan, A. (2018) Approaching landscapes of infrastructure: methods and results of the Vayoc Dzor Silk Road Survey. In: Anderson, W. and Hopper, K. and Robinson, A. (eds.) Finding Common Ground in Diverse Environments: Survey Archaeology in the South Caucasus. OREA. Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9783700182047.

Franklin, Kathryn and Babajanyan, A. (2018) The power of making places: collaborative heritage and working with ARISC in Armenia. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 6 (3), pp. 205-216. ISSN 2166-3548.

Franklin, Kathryn and Vorderstrasse, T. and Babayan, F. (2017) Examining the late medieval village from the case at Ambroyi, Armenia. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76 (1), pp. 113-138. ISSN 0022-2968.

Franklin, Kathryn (2016) Assembling subjects: Cosmopolitanism in late medieval Armenia. In: Franklin, Kathryn and Miller-Bonney, E. and Johnson, J. (eds.) Incomplete Archaeologies: Assembling Knowledge in the Past and Present. Oxbow Books, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9781785701153.

Miller Bonney, E. and Franklin, Kathryn and Johnson, J.A., eds. (2016) Incomplete archaeologies: assembling knowledge in the past and present. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781785701153.