Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lynn Meskell
Honorary Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Archaeological Theory, Ethnography, UNESCO World Heritage, Middle East, India, South Africa, Egypt, Identity, Politics, Embodiment, Postcolonial and Feminist theory, Ethics.
Ph.D. (Archaeology) University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts University of Sydney
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
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
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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)