University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Member, Near Eastern Studies
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
About
Benjamin W. Porter is an assistant professor of Near Eastern archaeology in the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. He is also a curator of Near Eastern archaeology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He has taught at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, the latter from which he received his PhD in anthropology in 2007. He co-directs the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project in Jordan and the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project. He is writing a book on ancient Near Eastern social life.
Contact Information
University of California, Berkeley
Near Eastern Studies Department
240 Barrows Hall, #1940
Berkeley, CA 94720 - 1940 USA
+1 510 642-7794
