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Mitchell S. Rothman, Curriculum vitae

MITCHELL S ROTHMAN
Social Science Division LC
Widener University
Chester, PA 19013
Phone: 610 499-4638
email: msrothman@ widener.edu

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403 Maplewood Avenue

Merion, PA 19066-1013
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CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Widener University
Consulting Scholar, The University of Pennsylvania Museum
PERSONAL DATA:
Born: 29 May 1952
Citizenship: USA
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1988, Anthropology Department.
Centralization, Administration, and Function at Fourth Millennium B.C.
Tepe Gawra, Northern Iraq. (Committee Chair: Dr. Robert H. Dyson, Jr.).
M.A. Hunter College, City University of New York, 1977, Anthropology
Department. Lithic Debitage as a Cultural Indicator in Prehistoric Sites.
(Dr. Gregory Johnson, advisor)
B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974, Anthropology Department.
(Dr. Henry T. Wright, advisor).
Washington University, St. Louis, 1970-72, Anthropology (Dr. Patty Jo Watson, advisor).
TEACHING:
20051998-2005
1992-97
1989-92
1979

Professor of Anthropology, Widener University, Chester, PA.

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Widener University, Chester, PA
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Widener University, Chester, PA.
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Widener University, Chester, PA.
Teaching Fellow, The University of Pennsylvania.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Middle Eastern Archaeology, Evolution of Complex Societies, Middle East Anthropology, Regional
Analysis, Theoretical approaches to culture change, Ethnohistoric Analysis, and Artifact Analysis.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2013 Prepublication preparation, White-Levy Foundation, Harvard, $28,200
2012 Final Excavation Season at Shengavit, Armenia. National Geographic Society $18,000.
2010 Second Excavation Season at Shengavit, Armenia. National Geographic Society. $19,800.
2006 Stone Foundation, Royal Ontario Museum, (with Hilary Gopnik) for publication of On
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2006-7 White-Levy Foundation, (with Hilary Gopnik) for preparation of On the High Road. (with Hilary
Gopnik) $28,000
2006 Competitive sabbatical (one semester), Widener University
2004 Provosts Grant, Widener University, Research Assistant, Malatya survey $1800.
1999 Competitive sabbatical (one semester), Widener University
1998/01 National Science Foundation, Tilbes Hyk Excavations, Turkey $62,000.
1997 Provosts Grant, Widener University, Research Assistant, Pusey House
cataloguing $1200
1996 National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration,
funds for excavation of Yarm Hyk, Turkey $15,820
1995 Provost's Research Grant, Widener University. $1200
funds for pre-study, Turkey Euphrates Project
1991, 93 National Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration,
funds for Mus,, Turkey Survey Project. $19,900
1993 Provost's Research Grant, Widener University
funds for East Turkey Survey Project $1200
1989 National Endowment for the Humanities RO-21872-89
Prepublication Research on Tepe Gawra (with Dr. R.H.Dyson, Jr.). $23,500
1979 University of Pennsylvania, Dissertation Grant.
1977-80 Title VI, Critical Languages Fellowship (Farsi), University of Pennsylvania.
1975 Smithsonian Institution, Research Internship, M.A. Research (Dr. William
Fitzhugh, sponsor).
PUBLICATIONS:
Peer Reviewed Books:
Manzanilla, Linda and Mitchell S Rothman
n.d. Storage in Ancient Complex Societies: Administration, Organization, and Control. Left Coast Press.
Gopnick, Hilary and Rothman, Mitchell
2011 On the High Road: the History of Godin Tepe, Iran. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum/ Mazda Press.
Rothman, Mitchell S.
2002a Tepe Gawra. the Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq. Philadelphia: The
University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications.
Rothman, Mitchell S., editor
2001a Uruk Mesopotamia and its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interaction in the Era of State Formation.
Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
Stein, Gil J. and Rothman, Mitchell S., editors
1994a Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: the Organizational Dynamics of Complexity.
Madison, WI: Prehistory Press.
Peer reviewed articles and invited contributions in peer-reviewed books:
In press Regarding Ritual Behaviour at Shengavit, Armenia. Ancient Near Eastern Studies (with Hakob
Simonyan).
2014 Kura Araxes Culture Areas and the Late 4th and Early 3rd Millennia BC Pottery from Veli Sevins
Surveys in Malatya and Elazi, Turkey. Origini XXXVI:37-91.
2013 Interpreting the Role of Godin Tepe in the Uruk Expansion. In Ancient Iran and Its Neighbors,
edited by Cameron Petrie. 75-92. Cambridge:British Institute of Iranian Studies.

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2011a Interaction of Uruk and Northern Late Chalcolithic Societies in Anatolia. In The Oxford
Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, edited by Sharon Steadman and Gregory McMahon, 813-835.
Oxford: Oxford University Press (paperback reprint 2013).
2011b The Environment of Godin Tepe. In On the High Road: the History of Godin Tepe, Iran, edited
by Gopnick, Hilary and Mitchell Rothman, 49-66. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum/ Mazda
Press.
2011c Migration and Resettlement: Godin IV Period. In On the High Road: the History of Godin Tepe,
Iran, edited by Gopnick, Hilary and Mitchell Rothman, 139-208. Toronto: Royal Ontario
Museum/ Mazda Press.
2009 Religion, Function, and Social Networks: Tepe Gawra in the Late fifth and Early Fourth
Millennia BC. In Apropos de Tepe Gawra, Le Monde Proto-Urbain de Msopotsmie, edited by
Pascall Butterlin, Subartu XIII: 15-40
2007 The Archaeology of Early Administrative Systems in Mesopotamia. In Settlement and society:
Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams. Edited by Elizabeth Stone. 235-254. Los
Angeles: Coetsen Institute of Archaeology UCLA.
2004a Studying the Development of Complex Society: Mesopotamia in the Late Fifth and Fourth
Millennia BC. Journal of Archaeological Research 12 (1): 75-119.
2004b Beyond the Frontiers: Mus, in the Late Bronze to Roman Periods. In A View From the Highlands:
Archaeological Studies in Honor of Charles Burney. Antonio Sagona, ed. 123-177. Peeters
2003a Style and Adaptation along The Turkish-Iranian Borderland. Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays in
honor of William Sumner. N. Miller and K. Abdi, eds. 207-216. Los Angeles: Coetsen UCLA
Institute of Archaeology Press.
2003b Ripples in the Stream: Transcaucasia-Anatolian Interaction in the Murat/Euphrates Basin at the
Beginning of the Third Millennium B.C. in Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in
Caucasia and Beyond. A. Smith and K. Rubinson, eds. 95-110. Los Angeles: Cotsen: Institute of
Archaeology, UCLA.
2002b Tepe Gawra: Chronology and Socio-economic Change in the Foothills of Northern Iraq
in the Era of State Formation. In Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East.
N.Postgate, ed. 49-77. Wiltshire, England: British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
2001b The Tigris Piedmont and Eastern Jazira in the Fourth Millennium B.C. Uruk Mesopotamia and its
Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation. M. Rothman, ed. 349-402.
Santa Fe: SAR Press.
2001c The Local and the Regional: Introduction. In Uruk Mesopotamia and its Neighbors: Crosscultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation. 3-26. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
2000a The Commoditization of Goods and the Rise of the State in Mesopotamia. in, A. Haugerud, P.
Stone, P. Little, eds., Commodities and Globalization. Society of Economic Anthropology
Publications. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
2000b Environmental and Cultural Factors in the Development of Settlement in a Marginal, Highland
Zone. In The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond: Essays in Honor of James A. Sauer. L.E.
Stager, J.A. Greene, and M.D. Coogan. 429-43. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns.
1994b Seal and Sealing Findspots, Design, Audience and Function in Ferioli, P., Fiandra, E., Fisore, G.
and Frangipane, M., editors. Archives Before Writing. 97-121. Universit di Roma
1994c Palace and Private Agricultural Decision-making in the Early 2nd Millennium B.C. City-State of
Larsa, Iraq. in E. Brumfiel, ed., The Economic Anthropology of the State. 149-167. Monographs
in Economic Anthropology, No. 11. Lanham: University Press of America.
1994d Introduction Part I: Evolutionary Typologies and Cultural Complexity. In G. Stein and M. S.
Rothman, eds., Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East. 1-10. Madison: Prehistory Press.
1994e Sealings as a Control Mechanism in Prehistory: Tepe Gawra XI, X, and VIII. in G. Stein and M.
S. Rothman, eds., Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East. 103-120. Madison: Prehistory
Press.
1993 Another Look at the 'Uruk Expansion' from the Tigris Piedmont. in Frangipane, M., H.
Hauptmann, M. Liverani, Matthiae, P., and Mellink, M. editors in Between the Rivers and Over

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1987

the Mountains: Anatolia, Transcaucasia and Syro-Mesopotamian Regions in Prehistory. 163-77.

Universita di Roma.
Graph Theory and the Interpretation of Regional Survey Data. Palorient 13/2: 73-92.

Rothman, Mitchell S. and Blackman, M. James

2003 Late Fifth Millennium Exchange Systems in Northern Mesopotamia: Chemical Characterization
of Sprig and Impressed Wares. Al-Rafidan: XXIV: 1-24.
1990 Monitoring Administrative Spheres of Action in Late Prehistoric NorthernMesopotamia with the
Aide of Chemical Characterization (INAA) of Clay Sealings.. in Miller, N., editor. Economy
and Settlement in the Near East. pp 19-45, MASCA Supplement, University Museum.
Rothman, Mitchell S and Virginia Badler. Contact and Development in Godin Period VI. In On the High
Road: the History of Godin Tepe, Iran, edited by Gopnick, Hilary and Mitchell Rothman, 67-138.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum/ Mazda Press.
Peasnall, Brian and Rothman, Mitchell S.
1999 Societal Evolution of Small, Pre-state Centers and Polities: the Example of Tepe Gawra in
Northern Mesopotamia. Palorient 25/1: 101-114.
Batiuk Stephen and Rothman, Mitchell S.
2007 Early Transcaucasian Cultures and their Neighbors- Unraveling Migration, Trade, and
Assimilation.Expedition 49 (1): 7-17.
Rothman, Mitchell S. and Jess Fuensanta
2003 The Archaeology of the Early Bronze I and II Periods in Southeastern Turkey and North Syria. in
Kyden Kente Doguda Ilk Yerles,imler M. zdogan, H. Hauptmann, N. Basgelen, ed. 583-622.
Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayinlar
Peasnall, Brian and Mitchell Rothman
2003 One of Iraqs Earliest Towns: Excavating Tepe Gawra in the Archives of the University of
Pennsylvania Museum. Expedition 45 (3): 34-39.
Rothman, Mitchell S. and Kozbe, Glriz
1997 Mus, in the Early Bronze Age. Anatolian Studies. 47: 105-126.
In peer review, submitted, or in preparation.
Rothman, Mitchell S
in press.
Chapter One: Introduction: Storage as an Analytical Marker for Studying Cultural
Evolution. In Storage, Administration, and Organization in Ancient Societies edited by Linda
Manzanilla and M.S Rothman. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
in press.
Chapter 2: Verifying the Role of Storage; Examples from Prehistoric ancient
Mesopotamia. In Storage, Administration, and Organization in Ancient Societies edited by Linda
Manzanilla and M.S Rothman. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
In press.
Explaining the Kura Araxes. Proceedings of the Eurasian Conference, edited by Adam
Smith.
in peer review Shengavit and the Ararat Plain and Cultural Evolution in the Kura Araxes Period.
Sagona Festschrift.
submitted. Perspectives on developments in the piedmont of northeastern Iraq and southeastern Anatolian
hill country in the 5th millennium BC. In Pathways to Power. Chicago: Oriental Institute Press.
Rothman, Mitchell S and Jesus Gil Fuensanta.
in preparation After the Uruk: Some Early Bronze Age Remains from Tilbes Hyk, Birecik, Turkey.
Cambridge: British Archaeological Reports.

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Invited, non-peer-reviewed articles:

Rothman, Mitchell S
2006 Transcaucasians: Settlement, Migration, and Trade in the Kura-Araxes Periods. Archologische
Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 37: 53-62.
2005a Issues of the Uruk and Transcaucasian Cultures at Godin. Young Festschrift. Bulletin of the
Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 40: 9-18.
2005b Sealing Function and Interaction at Tepe Gawra. in Studi in Onore di Enrica Fiandra. M. Perna,
ed. 341-355. Paris: DeBoccard.
2003 The Origin of the State in Greater Mesopotamia. Bulletin of the Canadian Society for
Mesopotamian Studies 38: 23-38.
2002c Deconstructionism, Positivism, and Archaeological Interpretation: response to Bernbeck and
Pollock: Material Culture and Mental Spaces. Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Festschrift for
Hans Nissen. A. Hausleiter, S. Kerner, and B. Mller-Neuhof, eds. 215-228. Mnster: UgaritVerlag.
1994f The Pottery of the Mus, Plain and the Evolving Place of a High Border Land.
Aras,trma Sonular Toplants (Research and Survey Summary Reports). XII. 281-304. Ankara:
Culture Ministry.
1993b Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey in the Alpaslan Dam Reservoir Area and Mus,
Plain. Aras,trma Sonular Toplants (Research and Survey Summary Reports). 269-295.
Ankara: Culture Ministry.
1989a Re-Analysis of Fourth Millennium B.C. Tepe Gawra. Palorient 15/1: 284-286.
Rothman, Mitchell S., ed.
1989b Organizers Introduction to Workshop: Out of the Heartland: the Evolution of Complexity in
Peripheral Mesopotamia During the Uruk Period. Palorient 15/1: 279.
Rothman, Mitchell S., Rifat Erge, Naomi Miller, Jill Weber, and Glriz Kozbe
1998 Yarm Hyk and the Uruk Expansion (Part I). Anatolica XXXIV: 65-99.
Kozbe, Glriz and Mitchell Rothman
2005 Chronology and Function at Yarm Hyk, Part II. Anatolica XXXI:111-144.
Fuensanta, J. G.; M. Rothman; P. Chrvat; E. Bucak
2002 Tilbes Hyk Salvage Excavation Project. Kaz Sonular Toplants XXIII (Excavation
Summary Reports). 131-144. Ankara: Culture Ministry.
Fuensanta, J. G.; M. Rothman; E. Bucak
2000a Excavations at Tilbes Hyk, 1998. Kaz Sonular Toplants XXI (Excavation Summary
Reports). 157-166. Ankara: Culture Ministry.
2000b The Tilbes Project: A Joint American-Spanish-Turkish Archaeological Research in Euphrates
Region. GAP Blge'sinde Kltr Varlklarnn Korunmas, Yasatlmas ve Tantlmas
Semposyumu. 85-92. Ankara: TC Kltr Bakanlg.
Fuensanta, J. G.; M. Rothman; E. Bucak
1999 Excavations at Tilbes Hyk, 1997. Kaz Sonular Toplants XX. (Excavation Summary
Reports). 207-218. Ankara: Culture Ministry.
Rothman, Mitchell and Erge, Rifat
1997 Yarm Hyk Excavations, 1996. Kaz Sonular Toplants XIX (Excavation Summary
Reports). 277-290. Ankara: Culture Ministry.

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Book Reviews, Review Articles, Conference Reports, and Encyclopedia Entrees in Peer Reviewed
Publications:
Rothman, Mitchell S
2014 Review Porter, Mobile Pastoralism and Formation of Near East Civilizations. BASOR 372: 214217.
2014 Review Aubet, Commerce and Colonialization in the Ancient Near East.
http://pages.stolaf.edu/ancienthistorybulletin/online-reviews-vol-4/
2013 Tepe Gawra. Reallexicon der Assyriologie und Verderasiatischen Archologie. Band 13 (7/8):
88-91.
2012

Review, Bolger and Macguire, The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East.
BASOR 365: 79-82.

2008

Review, David Wengrow, Prehistories of Commodity Branding. Current Anthropology 49(1):

23-24.
2004 Review, The Dark Mound, Roger Matthews. Bulletin of ASOR no. 334: 73-74.
2003 Review, Mesopotamia Before History, Charvat. Near Eastern Archaeology Studies 40: 267-70.
2002c Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia. Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 8. P. Peregrine and M.
Ember, eds. 261-270. New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum.
1997 Tepe Gawra. in E. Meyers, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Vol 5,
183-186. Oxford University Press.
1994g Review, Kleymeyer, Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development. Journal of Third World
Studies XI(2): 635-40.
1983 Two Ethnoarchaeological Studies and the Questions They Raise. BASOR 252: 73-77.
PAPERS DELIVERED:
2012 Continuity and Change in the Kura Araxes. Eurasian Conference. October 11. Cornell
University.
2012 Changing Organization of Kura Araxes Culture Erzurum, Turkey Conference on
Archaeology (sent paper to be read). October 12.
2012 Changing Organization of Kura Araxes Culture. Developments in the Southern Caucasus.
Society of American Archaeology Memphis Tennessee. April 2012
2011 Perspectives on developments in the piedmont of northeastern Iraq and southeastern Anatolian
hill country in the 5th millennium BC. Pathways to Power Oriental Institute University of
Chicago. November 3..
2010 Discussion, Symposium: Storerooms, Tokens, and Administrative Devices in Early Complex
Societies. Society of American Archaeology Linda Manzanilla, organizer April 15 2010
2009 Godin Tepe: Intercultural Contact and Social Change in the Fourth and Early Third Millennia
BC. Workshop, Ancient Iran and its Neighbors: Local Development and Long Range
Interactions in the 4th Millennium B.C. Cambridge England 27 June 2009.
2005a Watching the Revolution from the Countryside of Fars. Center for Iranian Research and Analysis
annual meetings. Widener May 6.
2005b World Systems Theory and Local Development at Tepe Gawra. Johns Hopkins. Invited lecture.
2005c Tracing Economic and Social Networks through Chemical Characteristics. ASOR national
meetings, Philadelphia.
2005d Discussant, Religion and Archaeology. ASOR national meetings, Philadelphia.
2004a Issues of the Uruk and Transcaucasian Cultures at Godin Tepe Iran. A View from the High Road.
LeSocit canadienne des tudes msopotamiennes. Toronto. 18 September.
2004b Transcaucasians: Settlement Migration, Trade, in the Early Bronze Age. Mountains and Valleys:
A Symposium on Highland/ Lowland Interaction in Bronze Age Eastern Anatolia, Transcaucasia,
and Northwestern Iran. August 10. Van, Turkey..
2004c The Middle East in Perspective: Religion, Ethnicity, Values, and Relations with the West.
Presidential Lecture, Widener. University. 22 March 2004

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2003a Participant, Workshop on Ancient Ceramics from the Southern Caucasus and Adjacent Areas.
Barnard College, Columbia University.
2003b The Town and Countryside. Journe consecre a Tepe Gawra symposium. Universit de
Versailles-San Quentin, Paris. 3 June.
2002 The Origins of Cities, States, and International Trade in Fourth Millennium B.C. Mesopotamia.
Toronto Mesopotamian Society. 9 January.
2001 The Archaeology of Early Administration. Invited session, Theoretical Foundations in the Dust:
the Past and Future of Mesopotamian Archaeology. American Anthropological Association
meetings. Washington DC December 1
2000 Salvage of Tilbes Hyk. East Coast C&M Archaeology Society. November 2000. Boston
1999 In Search of the State. Presidential Lecture, Widener. University.
1999 Excavations at, 1998. International Archaeology Symposium. Ankara, Turkey.
1998 The Second Wave: Transcaucasian-Anatolian Interaction in the Murat/ Euphrates Basin at the
Beginning of the Third Millennium B.C. American Institute of Archaeology meetings. 29
December 1998.
1998 Tepe Gawra and the Uruk Expansion. Artefacts of Complexity Conference. Manchester
(England). 6-7 November, 1998.
1998 Tepe Gawra as the Small Center of an Indigenous Polity in Northern Iraq. Society of American
Archaeology meetings. Seattle. April 1998.
1998 Tilbes Hyk Kazs, 1997. International Archaeology Symposium. Ankara, Turkey.
1998 Tepe Gawra and the Uruk Expansion. Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation. School of
American Research Advanced Seminar. Santa Fe, NM.
1997 Yarm Hyk Excavations, 1996. International Archaeology Symposium. Ankara, Turkey. May
1997.
1996 Environmental and Socio-political Factors in Settlement in a Marginal, Highland Zone. Habitat
II. Istanbul, Turkey. 5 June.
1995 The Early Bronze Age in Mus, -Van. East Coast Chowder and Marching Society. Washington
DC. November 1995
1995 The Commoditization of Goods and the Rise of the State in Mesopotamia. Society of Economic
Anthropology. Santa Fe. April 22.
1994 Results of 1993 Season in Mus,, Turkey. International Symposium on Research in Turkey.
Ankara. May 26.
1994 The View from the High Border Lands. Society of American Archaeology. Anaheim, CA. April,
1994.
1992 Results of 1991 Season of Survey in Mus,, Turkey. International Symposium on Research in
Turkey. Ankara.
1992 Preliminary Results of Mus, Survey. East Coast Chowder and Marching Society, Philadelphia.
1991 Sealing Use and Changes in Administrative Oversight and Structure at Tepe Gawra During the
Fourth Millennium B.C. Archives Before Writing Conference. Rome.
1991 Palace and Private Agricultural Decision-Making in the Early Second Millennium B.C.
City-State of Larsa, Iraq. Society of Economic Anthropology. Bloomington, Indiana.
1991 Preliminary Results of an Archaeological Survey in Mus,, Trkiye International Archaeological
Symposium on Turkish Projects. Ankara, Turkey.
1989 Variations in Complex Chiefdomship Organization in Northern Iraq. American Anthropological
Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.
1987 Re-analysis of Fourth Millennium B.C. Tepe Gawra. The University Museum, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1987 Field/Orchard Size and Production on Agricultural Land in Larsa During Rim Sin and
Hammurabi. American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
1986 Graph Theory and the Interpretation of Regional Survey Data in the Middle East. American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1985 Barley and Date Production in an Early Iraqi State. American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

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1984

Institutional Responses to Risk in Southern Mesopotamian Agriculture. American Schools of

Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED:
2005 From Sumer to Southern Iraq. Invited session of the Middle Eastern and Archaeology sections.
American Anthropological Association. 2 December 2005.
2000 Invited Forum: Evolutionary Theory in Archaeology at the Millennium. with Gary Feinman
Society of American Archaeology. Philadelphia.
1998 Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation. School of American Research Advanced Seminar.
Santa Fe.
1989 Pre- and Early State Societal Formations in the Near East, with Gil Stein. American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1987 Old Babylonian Agriculture and Economic Structure, with Robert Henrickson. American Oriental
Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
1987 Out of the Heartland: The Evolution of Complexity in Peripheral Mesopotamia During the Uruk
Period. The University Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1985 Environmental Consequences of Production, with Endre Nyerges. American Anthropological
Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE:
2009- Co-director Shengavit Excavation Project, Yerevan Armenia
2005 Early Transcaucasian Ceramic Project. Yznc Yl niversitesi, Van Turkey.
2004 Diyarbakir Regional Survey (Brian Peasnall, field director).
1998/01 Principal Investigator and Field Director, Tilbes Hyk, Turkey Excavations, in coordination
with the Sanlurfa Museum, Turkey, and Alicante University, Spain.
1996 Principal Investigator, Yarm Hyk, Turkey Excavations. Widener-Ege Euphrates Project in
coordination with the Gaziantep Museum, Turkey.
1995 Director, Landingford Historical Excavation Project, Upland, PA.
1995 Widener-Ege University Euphrates Project, pre-study
1991, 93 Principal Investigator, Murat Gorge and Mus, Plain Regional Survey, Eastern Turkey.
1990 Surveyor. Tigris-Euphrates Reconnaissance Project, Southeastern Turkey, Dr Guillermo Algaze,
principal investigator.
1989 Site Supervisor. Gordion, Turkey, Dr. Mary Voigt, principal investigator.
1978 Site Supervisor. Tal-i-Malyan, Iran. Dr. William Sumner, principal investigator.
1978 Principal Investigator, Borujerd Valley, Luristan, Iran, survey pre-study for Settlement Systems
and Adaptations in Historical Highland Iran (original dissertation project).
1974 Surveyor, Susiana Plain Survey Project, Iran, Dr. Robert Schacht, principal investigator.
1973 Excavator, Surveyor, New York State Archaeological Survey. Dr. Marion White,
principal investigator.
1972 Excavator, El Morro Valley, New Mexico. Dr. Patty Jo Watson, principal investigator.
1972 Excavator, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois. David Browman, investigator.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
1982-86
Administrative Director, American Schools of Oriental Research. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Society for American Archaeology
American Institute of Archaeology
American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
COURSES TAUGHT AT WIDENER:

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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Digging Culture: Introduction to Archaeology, Biblical

Archaeology, Race and Racism, Symbols and Society, the Anthropology of Religion, Anthropological
Approaches to Economic Systems, Middle East Ethnography, Native American Cultures, Anthropological
Theory, Values Seminars: Chester, Race and Ethnicity, Native Americans, Technology and Culture,
Education and Progress, Middle East and Terrorism, Europeans and the Other.