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Geoff Emberling Director, Oriental Institute Museum Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Geoff Emberling, Director of the Oriental Institute Museum, is an
archaeologist who has been excavating in Middle East for nearly 20 years. He
was field director at Tell Brak in northeastern Syria, one of the earliest
large cities in ancient Mesopotamia, and is now co-director of of an
Oriental Institute expedition to the 4th Cataract of the Nile River in
Sudan, where he is examining sites related to the kingdom of Kush. Since
2003, he has also extensively taught US military units about the history of
Iraq.
Emberling is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on a range of
topics related to Near Eastern archaeology, including ancient ethnicity and
early cities and states in Mesopotamia (Iraq and Syria) and Iran.
He was Assistant Curator in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1997 to 2000, and was a lecturer at the
Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, the University of
Copenhagen, in 1996-97.
Emberling received an A.B. in 1987 from Harvard University in Anthropology.
He received an M.A. in Anthropology in 1991, an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies
in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies in 1995, all
from the University of Michigan.
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