Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Research

The Joukowsky Institute has a wide-ranging and active research profile, including not only organizing and sponsoring multiple international fieldwork projects, but also supporting major initiatives and other synergistic activities.

A team walks through a canyon in Petra, Jordan

The Institute's initiatives and research collaborations engage with faculty members from across multiple programs at Brown and promoting the research and teaching of JIAAW faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The JIAAW's research and projects continue to expand, as faculty, students, and staff increasingly focus on engaged scholarship, community outreach, diversity programming and new ways of connecting with archaeologists locally, nationally and internationally.

The Joukowsky Institute and Brown University, more broadly, presently sponsor archaeological field projects in Egypt, Greece, Italy, Jordan,​​ Mexico, Sardinia, ​Sudan, Turkey, ​and in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown graduate students and undergraduates are welcome to apply to participate in these endeavors, or to explore other fieldwork opportunities.
The Joukowsky Institute supports major initiatives and other synergistic activities among JIAAW faculty and student from across multiple departmental units at Brown. Initiatives promote not only the research and/or teaching of JIAAW faculty but also its postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
Students, faculty, and staff have created a variety of films, online exhibits, podcasts, slideshows, and other multimedia projects on topics ranging from Rhode Island Hall, to field projects in Armenia.
Support research by donating to to the Kaelyn McGregor Numismatic Research Fund.