University of Chicago

Department Member, Oriental Institute

Chief Curator, Oriental Institute Museum

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Also known as John D.M. Green, I am currently Chief Curator at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago (from August 2011). I am also a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute. I previously worked at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (2007 - 2011) where I was responsible for the redisplay of the Ancient Near East collections. Archaeological experience includes survey and excavation in England, Turkey, Syria and Jordan. I have also conducted museum and archive based research on collections in Europe, the USA, and Middle East. Academic interests include the history and archaeology of the second and first millennia BC in the Near East and East Mediterranean, ancient personal adornment, gender and social identity, the archaeology of death and burial, and histories of archaeology. My current focus is the Tell es-Sa'idiyeh Cemetery Publication Project (British Museum), which follows my Ph.D thesis (UCL, 2006) on the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age phases of the Tell es-Sa'idiyeh Cemetery, Jordan. I am also editing the letters and photographs (1927-1938) of archaeologist Olga Tufnell in the Palestine Exploration Fund's archive(with Ros Henry).

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