The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology's Pinar Durgun successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, "Mortuary Places, Rituals, and Memories: Anatolian Cemeteries in Context," on Thursday, December 14th.

Through guided coursework, advising and hands-on experience working with community partners, students in ESP are able to contextualize abstract theories, challenge assumptions and develop skills that prepare them for lives of effective action."

Congratulations to the Joukowsky Institute's Laurel Bestock, Associate Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology, on the release of her new book, Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt: Image and Ideology before the New Kingdom.

The Institute's certificate is intended to offer 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.

Brown University is offering two Destination Courses this January that may be of particular interest for archaeology students, and both classes will be cross-listed as Archaeology and the Ancient World courses.

We seek exceptional junior scholars who augment or complement the present strengths and diversity of our communities at Brown University, and who enhance our commitment to inclusive education and research.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology is very pleased to introduce our Research Apprenticeship Program in Archaeology.

A field report sharing results from a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of Petra, Jordan was published in AJA.

As the Joukowsky Institute enters its twelfth year of teaching and research, our website has long served us very well, and it is a measure of its quality that the new version is in many ways an update and upgrade rather than a fundamental revision.

Registration for new students opens on Tuesday, September 5th at 7:00pm.

Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe.

Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World will host a workshop called State of the Field 2018: Archaeology and Social Justice on March 2-3, 2018.

Congratulations to Pinar Durgun!

Congratulations to Daniel Plekhov!

The Journal of Roman Archaeology and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University are pleased to announce a new partnership, which will consolidate and build on our respective strengths: as a primary forum for research and debate in Roman Archaeology, and as a leading center for training and research in Mediterranean Archaeology.

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University invites applications from exceptional junior scholars who augment or complement the present strengths and diversity of the Joukowsky Institute community, and who enhance our commitment to inclusive education and outreach.