​Given health and travel concerns and especially the seriousness and volatility of the global public health situation, and closely following news on campus and around the world, there have been many discussions at the Joukowsky Institute about the impact of the coronavirus on travel, on students, and on our upcoming events.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology and the Ancient World.

The Fall 2019/Winter 2020 issue of Inventory, the newsletter of Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, is now available online. 

The article in Antiquity, published December 10, 2019, describes a new survey program undertaken by the project team, focused on the Batn el-Hagar in Sudan. The Batn el-Hagar has traditionally been characterized as sparsely occupied during the Middle Kingdom Period, with most activity limited to the Egyptian fortresses along the Second Cataract, but the project's work offers evidence for a more richly occupied landscape.

Congratulations to Professor Hamilakis!

IAAW's Professor Felipe Rojas is featured in the National Geographic series, "Lost Cities With Albert Lin".

In this volume, Rojas examines how the inhabitants of Roman Anatolia interacted with the physical traces of earlier civilizations in their midst.

The volume explores specifically the time frame from the fall of the Roman empire to the Medieval period.

State of the Field 2020: Archaeology of the Levant will be dedicated to addressing the unique aspects of the Levant through a series of invited papers and presentations, aimed to foster constructive discussion of current and future directions for archaeology in the region.

We’re pleased to announce that the online application for Brown University’s doctoral program in Archaeology and the Ancient World is now open.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World is offering a wide range of Archaeology and the Ancient World courses at Brown University this Fall -- including some NEW courses just added.

As part of our commitment to engaging with our community and encouraging others to do so, as well, the Joukowsky Institute has compiled a collection of several self-guided tours of Providence, Rhode Island.

The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade.

Rothenberg is conducting dissertation research on Montserrat, and was interviewed in Spring 2019 for this documentary about how the island's inhabitants are living after the volcano's eruption in 1995.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World congratulates the four winners of this year's Joukowsky Award for Student Research: Bailey Franzoi, Quinton Huang, and Rainey Zimmermann, Janie Merrick, and Oliver Nolan.

Past issues of the newsletter can be viewed in the News section of this website.

Congratulations to all students!

I want to empower experts in their fields to be able to say, ‘This is what I did, and this is why it matters,’ to open up a community dialogue about higher ed.”

The Joukowsky Institute is very happy to announce that Professor John F. Cherry has been recognized by Brown University's Graduate Council for his unparalleled excellence and commitment to nurturing graduate students, as the 2019 recipient of Brown's Faculty Advising and Mentoring Award.

All undergraduate students at Brown University are eligible, regardless of concentration or expected date of graduation.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World hosted a two-day workshop on ancient DNA in archaeology on February 22-23, 2019.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Archaeology and the Ancient World. Exceptional junior scholars who enhance the diversity of the Joukowsky Institute community, and our commitment to inclusive education and research, are particularly encouraged to apply.

This book explores the diversity of the Roman army, through objects that express the skills and craftsmanship of army-related objects.

Congratulations to Professors Kaufman and Briant!