Directory
Kim Bowes
Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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The Roman 90%: I work on the economic and social lives of poor and working Romans.
Margaret M. Bruchac
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I have long been committed to critical studies of Indigenous and colonial histories, material culture, archives, museums, and anthropological practice. My current research examines early collaborations among Indigenous informants and anthropological collectors that influenced the distribution and interpretation of cultural heritage in museums.
Ivan Drpić
Associate Professor, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Drpić’s current research explores the formation of subjectivity in the premodern world through the lens of material culture.
Reyhan Durmaz
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My research focuses on the history of Christianity and Christian-Muslim relations in late antiquity and the medieval Middle East, with an eye towards the issues surrounding religious minorities in the Middle East today.
Campbell A. Grey
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I explore the space where human populations encounter, engage with, and imagine the world around them, employing contemporary conceptualizations of risk and inequality to examine societal responses to uncertainty in the Late Roman world.
Sarah M. Guérin
Assistant Professor, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Africa • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Emily Hammer
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Price Lab for the Digital Humanities
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I use satellite imagery analysis and the methodologies of survey and landscape archaeology to provide a regional and spatial perspective on heritage preservation and site looting in conflict zones.
Jason T. Herrmann
Lecturer, Anthropology
Teaching Specialist for Digital Archaeology Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum
Megan C. Kassabaum
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Curator, American Section, Penn Museum
Director, Center for Ancient Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My research focuses on pre-contact Native American mound sites in the Mississippi River Valley in order to understand the complex relationships that existed between monument construction and identity, as well as foodways and politics through archaeological excavation and analysis of the recovered materials. I have also recently begun a West Philadelphia-based community archaeology project. I am committed to local archaeology and believe that education aimed at populations who interact with archaeology sites as part of their quotidian landscape is key to their protection and to engendering respect for both past and present communities.
Ann Kuttner
Associate Professor, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Africa • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I ask how ancient cultures of a global Mediterranean world ca. 350 BCE-500 CE talked, by means of images, things, structures, spaces and landscapes, both to themselves and with other groups among and beyond them (not least in conditions of empire); in today’s visually saturated environments and global contexts, that antiquity offers telling models for how art and artifice make, or challenge, identities in small worlds as in big ones.
Richard Leventhal
Professor, Anthropology
Curator, American Section, Penn Museum
Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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By positioning communities in a leading role, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center reframes the preservation of cultural heritage within a context of social, political, and economic development. We demonstrate and disseminate our strategy through field projects, research, engagement in public policy, and public programs that emphasize the centrality of community priorities for successful outcomes.
Mark Lycett
Director, South Asia Center
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My research focuses on the historical anthropology and social ecology of landscape formation, biodiversity, and power relations in South Asia. I am interested in the interplay of cultural landscapes and forest history; in the relationship between commemoration, social memory; and in the cultural construction of place in southern India. I have also written extensively on the social history and historical ecology of place and landscape in the Spanish Colonial Americas.
Simon Martin
Associate Curator and Keeper, Penn Museum
Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology
Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing offers us a true “window into the past”—one that has revolutionized our understanding of an ancient American people and their political dynamics.
Patrick McGovern
Scientific Director, Biomolecular Archaeology Project, Penn Museum
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums
Region • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
Over the past two decades, Patrick McGovern has pioneered the exciting interdisciplinary field of Biomolecular Archaeology which is yielding whole new chapters concerning our human ancestry both physical and cultural, medical practice, and of course what our ancient ancestors were eating and drinking.
Jeremy McInerney
Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology • Heritage
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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I work across a range of topics related to the Greek World, from issues of landscape to identity and more. Currently I am working on hybridity as a distinctive mode of framing Greek interactions with the wider Mediterranean world.
Lynn Meskell
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Anthropology, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Curator, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum • Weitzman School of Design
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I’ve always been drawn to social and political issues, whether in the past or indeed how the past comes to matter in the present. As famously said, the past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Katherine M. Moore
Practice Professor, Anthropology
Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials
Kathleen D. Morrison
Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor, Anthropology
Curator, Asian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Deborah I. Olszewski
Consulting Scholar, European Section, Penn Museum
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Africa • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
Humanity in a prehistoric world of hunter-gatherers and how we became who we are today.
Holly Pittman
Bok Family Professor in the Humanities, History of Art
Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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Lauren Ristvet
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Robert H. Dyson, Jr. Associate Curator, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Asia • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My work in Syria, Azerbaijan and Iraq investigates how and why ancient kingdoms and empires endured or failed—and how modern empires have repurposed this legacy in surprising ways.
C. Brian Rose
James B. Pritchard Prof. of Mediterranean Archaeology
Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Conservation • Museums • Heritage
Region • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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Brian Rose has served as the President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and is currently President of the American Research Institute in Turkey, having excavated for the last 40 years at Aphrodisias, Troy, and Gordion, which he now directs.
Theodore G. Schurr
Professor, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global • Middle East • Pacific
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Through DNA analysis, we reconstruct the origin and migration history of human populations, linking evidence from the past with present day understandings of ancestry, genealogy, and history.
Heather J. Sharkey
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Global • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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With my students, I aim to produce public-facing scholarship that explores the history of the Penn Museum, the University of Pennsylvania, and associated scholars and resources while drawing connections to the United States, the Middle East and North Africa, and the wider world!
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Curator of Chinese Art, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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I seek research problems that involve border-crossing and interactions between China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia; I have ongoing research projects or collaborations in all four countries.
Thomas Tartaron
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Asia • Europe
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My research is about bringing multiple ways of knowing to intriguing questions of the ancient past.
Deborah A. Thomas
R. Jean Brownlee Professor, Anthropology
Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography
Specialization • Heritage
Region • Americas • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My obsessions over the years have had to do with the Caribbean, and with processes of coloniality in the Western hemisphere. For me, the development of different forms of archives (they could be narrative, performative, sonic, or visual), and my practice of assembling them alongside each other, and alongside other already existing (usually difficult) archives, has been geared toward generating difficult conversations about personhood, politics, and violence. Archiving, in this way, is for me a decolonizing practice.
Stephen J. Tinney
Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Curator, Babylonian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Heritage
Region • Asia
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My primary activity is online because between Oracc and ePSD (see the links) we cover an immense range of material and reach the maximum possible number of people with it.
Domenic Vitiello
Associate Professor, City Planning and Urban Studies
Specialization • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Weitzman School of Design
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Domenic Vitiello is a historian and urban planner whose research, teaching, and practice focus on migrant communities, sanctuary, community development, urban agriculture and community food systems.
Josef Wegner
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums
Region • Africa • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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Surprising new archaeological discoveries made through ongoing excavations at Abydos show how archaeological research continues to transform our understanding of the society and history of Ancient Egypt.
Chantel White
Teaching Specialist, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum
Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology
Specialization • Archaeology
Region • Americas • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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My research focuses on the tiny discarded items of everyday life – bits of seeds, nut shells, and other plant materials – to reconstruct the foods and beverages that people consumed in the past, and to better understand the specialized knowledge and skillsets of those who produced daily meals.
Joyce White
Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
Consulting Scholar, Asian Section, Penn Museum
Mantha Zarmakoupi
Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture, History of Art
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Europe • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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Zarmakoupi has a multidisciplinary training in Classical Archaeology, History and Theory of Architecture, and Architecture and Engineering and brings together in her research and teaching a specialist’s knowledge of ancient architecture, classical archaeology and underwater archaeology with an interdisciplinary approach to classics and archaeology.
Richard L. Zettler
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near East Section, Penn Museum
Specialization • Archaeology • Museums • Heritage
Region • Middle East
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences • Penn Museum
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Focused on reconstructing the ancient past of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; dedicated to supporting Iraqi communities impacted by conflict; and, empowering Iraqi archaeologists and heritage professionals to recover, protect and preserve the country’s rich cultural heritage.
Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
Professor, Sociology and Africana Studies
Specialization • Museums • Heritage
Region • Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • Global
Affiliation • School of Arts and Sciences
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My academic production includes teaching, researching, filmmaking, and curating.