Jean MacIntosh Turfa | |
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Born | 1947 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Gwynedd Mercy College, Bryn Mawr College |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archeology |
Sub-discipline | Etruscan studies |
Institutions | University of Liverpool,University of Illinois at Chicago,University of Chicago,Loyola University Chicago,Drexel University,Dickinson College,Bryn Mawr College,St. Joseph's University,University of Pennsylvania |
Jean MacIntosh Turfa (born 1947 in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania) is an American archaeologist and authority on the Etruscan civilization. [1]
Jean MacIntosh graduated from Abington High School in Philadelphia and then earned her bachelor's degree at Gwynedd Mercy College. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College in 1974. [1]
Turfa has taught at the University of Liverpool,the University of Illinois at Chicago,the University of Chicago,Loyola University Chicago,Drexel University,Dickinson College,Bryn Mawr College,St. Joseph's University and the University of Pennsylvania. [2]
She has participated in archaeological excavation campaigns in the United States,the United Kingdom,in Italy at Poggio Civitate (Murlo),and at Corinth in Greece. She has been engaged in research and museum-based projects at the Manchester Museum,the Liverpool Museum,the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. [2]
She is a member of the US section of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. [3]