Professor Lynn Meskell
Honorary Professor School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: lynn.meskell@snu.edu.in
Archaeological Theory, Ethnography, UNESCO World Heritage, Middle East, India, South Africa, Egypt, Identity, Politics, Embodiment, Postcolonial and Feminist theory, Ethics.
Research Overview
Archaeological Theory, Ethnography, UNESCO World Heritage, Middle East, India, South Africa, Egypt, Identity, Politics, Embodiment, Postcolonial and Feminist theory, Ethics.
Education
Ph.D. (Archaeology) University of Cambridge Bachelor of Arts University of Sydney
Experience
2020 Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and Richard Perry University Professor in the Department of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania 2020 Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design , University of Pennsylvania 2020 Curator for Middle East and Asia at the Penn Museum 2019 ? 2020 Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University 2019 A.D. White Professor-at Large, Cornell University 2010 ? 2016 Director, Stanford Archaeology Center 2005 ? 2020 Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University 2005 Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University 2004 Honorary Professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 2004 ? 2005 Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology (Visiting), Stanford University 2001 ? 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University 1999 ? 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
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Awards & Honors
- 2021 Global Engagement Fund, Business, World Heritage and Conflict Risk: Investing for Profit, Preservation and Peace, University of Pennsylvania, (with Vit Henisz, Wharton) ($32,800) 2020 ? 2024 Australian Research Council Grant, After Islamic State: Local-State-Global Heritage Dynamics in Syria and Iraq (PI Ben Isakhan and L. Meskell) (AUS $460,000) 2021 ? 2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecturer: The Ethics of Heritage and Archaeology in Global Perspective, American Academy in Rome, Italy and Michigan University, USA. 2021 Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, Italy 2021 Perry World House Fellow (3 years), University of Pennsylvania 2020 PIK Professor and Richard Perry University Professor, University of Pennsylvania 2020 Honorary Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University, UK 2020 Honorary Professor, Archaeology Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK 2020 International Advisory Board, Archaeology Department, University of Durham, UK. 2020 International Advisory Board, Shiv Nadar University, India . 2019 Shirley R. and Leonard W. Ely, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University. 2019 A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, USA (6 years) 2019 Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture, American Anthropology Association, USA 2019 Society for American Archaeology Book Award for A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage and the Dream of Peace (OUP: New York) 2017 Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australia 2017 Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) Faculty Fellow, Stanford, USA 2017 Honorary Doctorate, American University of Rome, Italy. 2017 Visiting Fellow, New College, Oxford University, UK 2017 Visiting Professor, Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France 2016 GIAN Fellow, Global Initiative of Academic Networks, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2015 Senior Scholar in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Italy 2015 Senior Research Visitor, Keble College, Oxford University, UK 2015 Willem Willems Chair, Leiden University, Netherlands 2014 Thinker in Residence, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia 2013 ? 2016 Australian Research Council Grant for South East Asian Heritage and UNESCO (PIs T. Winter, B. Bennett, L. Meskell) (AUS $331,676)
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