Martha Sharp Joukowsky | |
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| Born | Martha Content Sharp September 2, 1936 |
| Died | January 7, 2022 (aged 85) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Brown University Pantheon-Sorbonne University American University of Beirut |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Near Eastern archaeology |
| Institutions | Brown University Archaeological Institute of America |
| Main interests | Excavations at Petra in Jordan |
Martha Sharp Joukowsky (2 September 1936 - 7 January 2022) was a Near Eastern archaeologist and a member of the faculty of Brown University known for her fieldwork at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan. [2]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie,noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Joukowsky was educated at Pembroke College (B.A. 1958) American University of Beirut (MA 1972) and Paris I-Sorbonne (Ph.D. 1982).
From 1982 to 2002 Joukowsky was Professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her archaeological fieldwork has included work in Lebanon (1967-1972),Hong Kong (1972-1973),Turkey (1975-1986),Italy (1982-1985),and Greece (1987-1990). Joukowsky conducted archaeological fieldwork at Petra for more than ten years,beginning in 1992. [3] Her work,and that of Brown University,focused on Petra's so-called "Great Temple" during that time. [4]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was also elected as President (1989-1993) of the Archaeological Institute of America and was Trustee for the American University of Beirut,Lebanon. [5] She also serves as Trustee Emerita of Brown University.
Artemis A. W. Joukowsky,her husband,was chancellor of Brown University (1997–98) [6] and together they created the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in 2004;the institute was first directed by Susan Alcock, [7] who was succeeded in the post by Peter van Dommelen.
In 1993 Joukowsky endowed an annual lecture series in her own name for the Archaeological Institute of America. [8]
She accepted the Yad Vashem award on behalf of her parents in 2006. [9]
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Susan Ellen Alcock is an American archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge. Alcock was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018. She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics &Letters.
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