Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology

Archaeology at Brown University

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World promotes the investigation, understanding, and enjoyment of the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Near East. We work in close collaboration with our colleagues in Brown University's Department of Anthropology whose research is focused on the study of the material remains of the ancient, historic, and modern Americas.
An Interdisciplinary Community

The goal of the Institute is to foster an interdisciplinary community of interest in the archaeology of the ancient world, and in the discipline of archaeology more generally.
Our Mandate

Our mandate is to promote research, fieldwork, teaching, and public outreach, with the Institute’s associated faculty, students, staff, and facilities serving as a hub for this activity.
A Commitment to Engaged Scholarship

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology has partnered with Brown University's Swearer Center to offer undergraduate students the option to concentrate in Archaeology and the Ancient World with a focus on Engaged Scholarship. Read more about this new partnership.

News

Joukowsky Award for Student Research

Thursday March 14, 2019
Photos of State of the Field 2019: The Ancient DNA Revolution in Archaeology

Saturday February 23, 2019
Position Announcement: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Archaeology and the Ancient World

Tuesday February 12, 2019
"L'armée de Rome : la puissance et la gloire" by Katia Schorle

Saturday February 2, 2019
"Metallurgical Design and Industry," edited by Brett Kaufman and Clyde Briant (Springer, 2018)

Friday January 11, 2019

Featured Project

Archaeology of College Hill, Providence, RI

Archaeology of College Hill, an ongoing fall term course and fieldschool for Brown undergraduates, has worked at multiple sites in the area immediately surrounding the Brown main campus. Begun in the fall of 2006 at the First Baptist Church in America, the field school moved in fall 2008 to the John Brown House Museum, and to the "Quiet Green" of Brown University in 2012. In Fall 2015, excavations began at Moses Brown School, on the East Side of Providence.