Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

People

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World's community is interdisciplinary, innovative, curious, and diverse, and stretches far beyond the walls of Rhode Island Hall and Brown University's campus.

Intellectual Exchange and Scholarly GrowthPeter van Dommelen with first-year advisees

The faculty and students in the Joukowsky Institute's community reflect its wide geographical scope and breadth of interests. The Institute's Academic Faculty are cross-appointed to the Institute from departments across Brown, and Faculty Fellows expand these interdisciplinary collaborations. Connections with other programs at Brown include:

The Institute regularly hosts visiting students and faculty members, whose backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills enhance its intellectual and professional breadth and connections, as well as our social and cultural vitality. JIAAW's Postdoctoral Fellowship program, in particular, has become known internationally for providing an intellectual home for some of archaeology's most thoughtful and innovative young scholars.

Faculty research and publications range in focus from Greek and Roman art and architecture to landscape archaeology, from contemporary ethnography to Roman provincial studies (of both western and eastern provinces), and from the Aegean Bronze Age to the archaeology of the Caribbean. Faculty are currently leading field projects on Sardinia in Italy, on Crete in Greece, and Mexico, Sudan, Turkey, and Providence, Rhode Island.