Faculty & Staff
Meredith S. Chesson
Associate Professor
B.A., Classics with honors, Brown University (1990)
M.A., Anthropology, Harvard University (1993)
Ph. D., Anthropology, Harvard University (1997)
An anthropological archaeologist, Chesson focuses on life in early walled towns in the southern Levant (Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) during the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BCE). Chesson has directed or participated in archaeological projects in Jordan, Canada, United States, Cyprus, Israel, and Italy. Her edited volumeSocial Memory, Identity and Death(2001) presents ethnographic and archaeological studies of cultural memory and mortuary practices, and she served as co-editor for an issue ofJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology. She has published in theJournal of Anthropological Archaeology, Levant, Paleorient, and in several edited books. She currently works as publication co-editor on final reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain's excavations at Bab edh-Dhra`, Feifa, Numeira, and Khirbet Khanazir (http://www.nd.edu/~edsp/). She has held Wenner-Gren and NSF grants, and is expanding her research to Italy with the Bova Marina Archaeological Project, co-directing with John Robb, Lin Foxhall, and David Yoon (http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~jer39/BMAP/index.html).
Contact Information
615 Flanner Hall
574-631-3775
chesson.3@nd.edu
Webpages
Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~jer39/BMAP/index.html