Peter van Dommelen
Peter Alexander René van Dommelen (born 1966, Terneuzen) is a Dutch archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the archaeology of the Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology.[1][2] Since July 2015, he has been Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
Peter Alexander René van Dommelen | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Title | Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Thesis | On colonial grounds: A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia (1998) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology and classics |
| Sub-discipline | Archaeology of the Western Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic archaeology |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow Brown University |
Early life and education
Van Dommelen was born in the Netherlands and took part in his first excavation while in high school.[3] He studied classics and archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He graduated with two Master of Arts (MA) degrees in 1990, and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1998.[2] His doctoral thesis was titled "On colonial grounds. A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia".[4]
Academic career
From 1993 to 1997, during his doctoral studies, van Dommelen was a graduate research assistant in the Department of Archaeology at Leiden University. In 1997, he moved to the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he had been appointed a lecturer in archaeology. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005 and appointed Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in 2008.[2]
In 2012, van Dommelen moved to Brown University in the United States where he had been appointed Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology.[1][2] In July 2015, he was appointed Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown.[5]
Van Dommelen was founding co-editor of Archaeological Dialogues from 1994 to 2005 and its managing editor from 2003 to 2005. Since 2006, he has been co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. Since 2007, he has been co-editor of World Archaeology, a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of archaeology.[2]
Selected works
- Van Dommelen, Peter (1998). On colonial grounds: a comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia. Leiden: University of Leiden. ISBN 978-9076368023.
- Van Dommelen, Peter; Gómez Bellard, Carlos (2008). Rural landscapes of the Punic world. London: Equinox. ISBN 978-1845532703.
- Rowlands, Michael; Van Dommelen, Peter (2013). Material culture and postcolonial theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415247283.
- Van Dommelen, Peter; Knapp, A. Bernard, eds. (2010). Material connections in the ancient Mediterranean: mobility, materiality, and Mediterranean identities. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415586689.
- Knapp, A. Bernard; van Dommelen, Peter, eds. (2015). The Cambridge prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521766883.
References
- "Peter Van Dommelen". vivo.brown.edu. Brown University. 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- "Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Peter van Dommelen" (PDF). vivo.brown.edu. Brown University. August 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- Michael, Steven (5 March 2015). "Research Spotlight: Professor discusses career as archaeologist in Italy". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- "On colonial grounds. A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia (1998)". archaeology.leiden.edu. Leiden University. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- "About Us". Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Brown University. Retrieved 27 September 2016.