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Benjamin Porter is an assistant professor of Near Eastern archaeology in the University of California, Berkeley’s Near Eastern Studies Department, and a curator of Near Eastern archaeology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Anthropology.
Porter co-directs the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project in Jordan, an archaeological field project investigating how agricultural communities dominated by imperial systems use technologies to organize agricultural and craft production in semi-arid, resource-scarce environments. He also co-directs the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project with Sonoma State University’s Alexis Boutin. This project is researching and publishing skeletal evidence and artifacts from Peter B. Cornwall’s 1941 expedition to Bahrain and Eastern Saudi Arabia.
Porter is also interested in critical social theory, the anthropology of tourism, and Near Eastern archaeology’s intellectual history. [Curriculum Vitae]
Upcoming Events
MEMORY & IDENTITY WORKING GROUP: "Inlays and Identities in Nubian Burials of the Classic Kerma Period"
Elizabeth Minor, UC Berkeley
» December 9, 2009
» Barrows Hall, Room 275
» 4-6 PM
CONFERENCE: Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2010
» April 30-May 2, 2010
» Brown University (New Orleans, LA)
» More info