University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Member, Near Eastern Studies

Other Affiliations: University of California, Berkeley, Ancient History and Near Eastern/Mediterranean Archaeology
University of California, Berkeley, Archaeological Research Facility
University of California, Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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 recently completed a book manuscript investigating production, authority, and social life in early Iron Age Levantine (1200-1000 BCE) communities in west-central Jordan.  He is currently writing a new monograph, entitled "Disciplining Archaeology in the Contemporary Middle East."  He is also co-editing a volume with Alexis Boutin for the University of Colorado Press, entitled "Remembering and Commemorating the Dead: Recent Contributions in Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology from the Ancient Near East."

Select publications can be found at http://escholarship.org/uc/search?creator=Porter,%20Benjamin%20W.

Porter will be on a sabbatical leave during the 2012-2013 academic year.  Please check back at this website to find out when he will be available.
   

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