The JIAAW also supports graduate students in allied Ph.D. programs at Brown University, including Anthropological Archaeology, Egyptology and Assyriology, Classics, and History of Art and Architecture. Interested students from those and related programs at Brown are encouraged to become members of the JIAAW through our Graduate Fellows program, or by completing a Graduate Certificate in Archaeology and the Ancient World.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Graduate
Programs
The Joukowsky Institute’s Ph.D. in Archaeology and the Ancient World is designed to provide graduates with an effective foundation in the archaeology, art, and history of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds, as well as with necessary training in ancient and modern languages and in other practical skills, while constantly encouraging the development of independent and original topics for dissertation research.
The Graduate Certificate in Archaeology of the Ancient World offers graduate students already enrolled in Ph.D. programs at Brown University the opportunity to acquire and to consolidate a foundational background in archaeology of the Mediterranean or Near East that may enhance the students' experiences in their primary, degree-granting graduate program.
The basic financial support package for graduates in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology is provided by the Graduate School through a variety of means over the course of a student’s career at Brown University.
View doctoral dissertations in Archaeology and the Ancient World submitted since 2007.
Professional Skills and Networks
The Joukowsky Institute organizes seminars at a minimum of twice each semester to offer our doctoral students training in topics of particular interest, from publishing opportunities, to grant seeking, to organizing a fieldwork season or a conference session. Brown University's Center for Global Antiquity also organizes regular discussions for graduate students in pre-modern history, society, or culture, to cultivate connections among students in different disciplines across the University and to offer advice and training on topics of shared professional concern.
Brown University's Graduate School offers a wide and growing range of avenues for professional development, from funding for travel or conferences to apprenticeship programs in university administration.
Training in Pedagogy
Joukowsky Institute graduate students in Archaeology and the Ancient World have also greatly benefited from participating in the various seminars offered through the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Several different forms of training and support are offered, and teaching certificates can be earned from the Sheridan Center.
Connections with Other Universities
Students at Brown University are able to register for courses at Harvard University and RISD. More information about the process can be found on the Graduate School's website. Also note that courses run through the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology at MIT are cross-listed at Harvard. Thus, it is possible for Graduate Students at Brown to take classes at MIT by registering through Harvard.
Brown University also participates in an Exchange Scholar Program that enables advanced graduate students to study for one or two semesters in the graduate school of participating institutions, including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
Mentorship
The Archaeology Department Undergraduate Group has also organized a mentoring partnership, pairing undergraduate students with graduate mentors. To find out more about this program, contact the Dig DUG leaders at DigDUG@brown.edu.