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Lynn Meskell
Lynn Meskell (born 1967) is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who currently works as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
She has worked as the 26th Penn Integrates Knowledge Program (PIK) Professor since her appointment in 2020, which is a program appointed to faculty with multidisciplinary research and teaching and who are working in at least two Penn Schools.
Meskell is also the Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design, and a curator for the Penn Museum's Middle East and Asia areas.
Since 2019 she has been an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; her term expires in 2026.
Meskell received her BA from the University of Sydney in 1994 (First Class) and University Medal. She was awarded the King's College scholarship from the University of Cambridge for her PhD in archaeology (1994–1997). In her doctoral dissertation, Meskell analyzed data from the settlement and cemeteries of Deir el-Medina, a New Kingdom worker's village across the Nile River from Luxor.
From 1997 to 1999, she held the Salvesen Junior Research Fellowship at New College, University of Oxford before accepting a position in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University in New York City where she taught till 2005 as associate professor, and then Professor. In 2005, she moved to Stanford University, where she taught in the Department of Anthropology from 2005 to 2020. From 2019 to 2020, she was the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She was the Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center from 2010 to 2016.
Since 2020, Meskell has been a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Weitzman School of Design, and a Penn Museum curator for the Middle East and Asia.
In 2002, she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. Meskell received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship in 2004, supporting training in ethnography and African studies to prepare her for work in South Africa. She carried out fieldwork in the Kruger National Park and Mapungubwe National Park.
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Lynn Meskell
Lynn Meskell (born 1967) is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who currently works as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
She has worked as the 26th Penn Integrates Knowledge Program (PIK) Professor since her appointment in 2020, which is a program appointed to faculty with multidisciplinary research and teaching and who are working in at least two Penn Schools.
Meskell is also the Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design, and a curator for the Penn Museum's Middle East and Asia areas.
Since 2019 she has been an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; her term expires in 2026.
Meskell received her BA from the University of Sydney in 1994 (First Class) and University Medal. She was awarded the King's College scholarship from the University of Cambridge for her PhD in archaeology (1994–1997). In her doctoral dissertation, Meskell analyzed data from the settlement and cemeteries of Deir el-Medina, a New Kingdom worker's village across the Nile River from Luxor.
From 1997 to 1999, she held the Salvesen Junior Research Fellowship at New College, University of Oxford before accepting a position in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University in New York City where she taught till 2005 as associate professor, and then Professor. In 2005, she moved to Stanford University, where she taught in the Department of Anthropology from 2005 to 2020. From 2019 to 2020, she was the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. She was the Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center from 2010 to 2016.
Since 2020, Meskell has been a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Weitzman School of Design, and a Penn Museum curator for the Middle East and Asia.
In 2002, she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. Meskell received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship in 2004, supporting training in ethnography and African studies to prepare her for work in South Africa. She carried out fieldwork in the Kruger National Park and Mapungubwe National Park.