Meredith S. Chesson

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

Degrees

B.A., Brown University; M.A, Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Profile

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 volume Social 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 of Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. She has published in the Journal 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
631-3775
Meredith.Chesson.3@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~mchesson/index.html