Binghamton University - Anthropology Department

SUSAN M. POLLOCK

(PhD University of Michigan 1983), Professor of Anthropology, is a Near Eastern archaeologist with interests in political economy and feminist approaches to the study of prehistoric and early historic societies. Her current research includes studies of community and household in village-based societies, the economies of early states in Mesopotamia, and analysis of the media's use of archaeology in constructing public opinion. She has conducted fieldwork in Iran, Iraq and Turkey (Kazane and Fistikli Höyük).

2005 Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives, edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck. Oxford: Blackwell.

2004 The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East . In The Blackwell Companion to Social Archaeology , Lynn Meskell and Robert Preucel (eds.), pp. 335-52. Oxford : Blackwell. (with Reinhard Bernbeck)

2003 The Biography of an Early Halaf Village : F 2 st 2 kl 2 Höyük 1999-2000. Istanbuler Mitteilungen 53:9-77. (with Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Allen, Ana Gabriela Castro Gessner, Sarah Kielt Costello, Robert Costello, Melissa Foree, Margarita Gleba, Marie Goodwin, Sarah Lepinski, Carolyn Nakamura, and Sarah Niebuhr).

2003 Feasts, Funerals, and Fast Food in Early Mesopotamian States. In The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires , Tamara Bray (ed.), pp. 17-38. New York : Kluwer Academic Press.

2003 The Looting of the Iraq Museum: Thoughts on Archaeology in a Time of Crisis. Public Archaeology 3: 117–124.

2001 The Uruk Period in Southern Mesopotamia . In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation , Mitchell Rothman (ed.), pp. 181-231. Santa Fe : School of American Research.

2000. (with Reinhard Bernbeck) And they said, Let us make gods in our image: gendered ideologies in Ancient Mesopotamia. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, ed. by Alison Rautman, 150-164. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

1999 Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that Never Was. Cambridge University Press.

On Leave for the Spring 2008 Semester

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Thomas Wilson
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Robin Barron
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J. Koji Lum
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Director of Graduate Studies:
D. Andrew Merriwether
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Heidi Kenyon
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	SUSAN M. POLLOCK Email: bg9711@binghamton.edu (PhD University of Michigan 1983), Professor of Anthropology, is a Near Eastern archaeologist with interests in political economy and feminist approaches to the study of prehistoric and early historic societies. Her current research includes studies of community and household in village-based societies, the economies of early states in Mesopotamia, and analysis of the media's use of archaeology in constructing public opinion. She has conducted fieldwork in Iran, Iraq and Turkey (Kazane and Fistikli Höyük). *2005 Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives, edited by Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck. Oxford: Blackwell.* 2004 The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East . In The Blackwell Companion to Social Archaeology , Lynn Meskell and Robert Preucel (eds.), pp. 335-52. Oxford : Blackwell. (with Reinhard Bernbeck) 2003 The Biography of an Early Halaf Village : F 2 st 2 kl 2 Höyük 1999-2000. Istanbuler Mitteilungen 53:9-77. (with Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Allen, Ana Gabriela Castro Gessner, Sarah Kielt Costello, Robert Costello, Melissa Foree, Margarita Gleba, Marie Goodwin, Sarah Lepinski, Carolyn Nakamura, and Sarah Niebuhr). 2003 Feasts, Funerals, and Fast Food in Early Mesopotamian States. In The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires , Tamara Bray (ed.), pp. 17-38. New York : Kluwer Academic Press. *2003 The Looting of the Iraq Museum: Thoughts on Archaeology in a Time of Crisis. Public Archaeology* 3: 117–124.** 2001 The Uruk Period in Southern Mesopotamia . In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation , Mitchell Rothman (ed.), pp. 181-231. Santa Fe : School of American Research. 2000. (with Reinhard Bernbeck) And they said, Let us make gods in our image: gendered ideologies in Ancient Mesopotamia. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, ed. by Alison Rautman, 150-164. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. *1999 Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that Never Was. Cambridge University Press.* On Leave for the Spring 2008 Semester « BACK





Departmental Chair: Thomas Wilson twilson@binghamton.edu Departmental Administrative Assistant: Robin Barron rbarron@binghamton.edu Director of Undergraduate Studies: J. Koji Lum klum@binghamton.edu Director of Graduate Studies: D. Andrew Merriwether andym@binghamton.edu Department Secretary: Heidi Kenyon hkenyon@binghamton.edu

Departmental Chair: Thomas Wilson twilson@binghamton.edu

Departmental Administrative Assistant: Robin Barron rbarron@binghamton.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies: J. Koji Lum klum@binghamton.edu

Director of Graduate Studies: D. Andrew Merriwether andym@binghamton.edu