B.A

Anthropology and Classical Civilizations, Cornell University, 1976

M.A.

Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1978

Ph.D.

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1983

1983-84

Mesopotamian Fellowship of the American Schools of Oriental Research

1985-1993

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton

1990-91, 1994-95

Forschungsstipendiatin, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie an der Freien Universität-Berlin

1994 - 2001

Associate Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton

2001 -

Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton (jetzt beurlaubt)

2009-2014

Gastprofessorin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin

seit 2014

Professorin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin

1985-1988, 1990

Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh, Iraq

1996-1998

Kazane Höyük, Südost-Türkei. Geleitet zusammen mit R. Bernbeck (Projekt unter der Leitung von Patricia Wattenmaker)

2003

Ausgrabungen in Toll-e Bashi, Fars, Iran. Geleitet zusammen mit R. Bernbeck und K. Abdi

2005

Ausgrabungen in Rahmatabad, Fars, Iran. Geleitet zusammen mit H. Fazeli und R. Bernbeck

1998-2001, 2008

Grabungen und Aufarbeitungskampagnen in Fistikli Höyük, Südost-Türkei. Geleitet zusammen mit R. Bernbeck

2010-

Grabung in Monjukli Depe, Süd-Turkmenistan. Geleitet zusammen mit R. Bernbeck.

2012-2014

Ausgrabungen von Nazi-Zwangsarbeitslagern der Lufthansa und der Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH sowie des „KZ Columbia“ auf dem Tempelhofer Feld (Berlin) (mit Reinhard Bernbeck)

2015

Ausgrabungen im „Halbmondlager“ aus dem 1. Weltkrieg in Wünsdorf (Brandenburg) (mit Reinhard Bernbeck, in Kooperation mit A.B.D. Dressler)

2015-2016

Ausgrabungen an der Hauptbibliothek und im Garten des CeDiS-Gebäudes der Freien Universität Berlin, ehemals Gelände des Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik

2019

Reflections on Survey and Surveillance in the Archaeology of Western Asia. Origini 42: 93-108. (Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck)

2018

The Animals from Tepe Sohz. In Übergangszeiten: Altorientalische Studien für Reinhard Dittmann anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags, Kai Kaniuth, Daniel Lau, and Dirk Wicke, Hrsg., S. 25-38, 446. Münster: Zaphon.

2017

Quotidian and Transgressive Practices in Nazi Forced Labor Camps: The Role of Objects. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. (Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock)

2017

Working Lives in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Uruk-Period Mesopotamia. In The Interplay of People and Technologies. Archaeological Case Studies on Innovations, edited by Stefan Burmeister and Reinhard Bernbeck, pp. 205-224. Berlin: Edition Topoi.

2017

Material and Social Worlds in Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Fars, Iran. Origini 38: 39-63.

2016

The Subject of Suffering. American Anthropologist 118(4): 726-741.

2016

From Clay to Stone: Material Practices and Writing in 3^rd Millennium Mesopotamia. In Materiality of Writing, edited by Thomas Balke and Christina Tsouparopoulou, pp. 277-291. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2016

Archaeology and Contemporary Warfare. Annual Reviews in Anthropology 45: 215-231.

2016

The Limits of Experience: Suffering, Nazi Forced Labor Camps, and Archaeology. In Archaeology of the Human Experience, edited by Michelle Hegmon, pp. 22-39. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 27 (Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck).

2016

Scalar Differences: Temporal Rhythms and Spatial Patterns at Monjukli Depe, Southern Turkmenistan. Antiquity 90(349): 64-80 (Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock).

2015

Abu Salabikh: History of a Southern Mesopotamian Town. In It’s a Long Way to a Historiography of the Early Dynastic Period(s), edited by Reinhard Dittmann and Gebhard Selz in collaboration with Ellen Rehm, pp. 267-287. Altertumskunde des Vorderen Orients Bd. 15. Münster: Ugarit Verlag.

2015

A Gate to a Darker World: Excavating at the Tempelhof Airport. In Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence, edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal and Gabriel Moshenska, pp. 137-152. New York/Heidelberg: Springer. (Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck).

2013

Defining a Halaf Tradition: The Construction and Use of Space. In Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia, edited by Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Reinhard Bernbeck, Peter Akkermans, and Jana Rogasch, pp. 171-181. Turnhout: Brepols.

2013

Commensality, public spheres and Handlungsräume in ancient Mesopotamia. In Big Histories, Human Lives: Tackling Problems of Scale in Archaeology, John Robb and Timothy Pauketat (eds.), pp. 145-170. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research.

2012

Politics of food in early Mesopotamian centralized societies. Origini 34 n.s.: 153-168.

2011

Making a Difference: Mortuary Practices in Halaf Times. In Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death: Contemporary Approaches to Bioarchaeology, Amy Baadsgaard, Alexis Boutin, und Jane Buikstra (Hrsg.). Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press.

2011

Imperial Ideologies and Hidden Transcripts: A Case from Akkadian Period Mesopotamia. In Ideologies in Archaeology, Reinhard Bernbeck und Randall McGuire (Hrsg.), S. 130-150. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

2010

An Archaeology of Categorization and Categories in Archaeology. Paléorient 36/1: 37-47. Festschrift G. Dollfus “Social Development in the 6th and 5th Millennia BCE (Turkey, Iran and Southern Levant,” Susanne Kerner (Hrsg.). (mit Reinhard Bernbeck)

2010

Decolonizing Archaeology: Political Economy and Archaeological Practice in the Middle East. In Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East, Ran Boytner, Lynn Swartz Dodd, and Bradley Parker (Hrsg.), S. 196-216. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

2009

Engendering Communities: The Contexts of Production and Consumption in Early Mesoptamian Villages. In Que(e)rying Archaeology: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Chacmool Conference, Susan Terendy, Natasha Lyons, and Michelle Janse-Smekal (Hrsg.), S. 240-49. Calgary: Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary. (mit Gabriela Castro Gessner)

2008

Wer hat Angst vorm bösen Wolf? Gender und Feminismus in der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, 24-28 September, Freiburg. Ausgewählte Vorträge. http://orient.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/dotpub/pollock.pdf

2008

Rubbish, Routines, and Practice: Chipped Stone Blades from Uruk-Period Sharafabad, Iran. Iran 46: 43-68.

2007

The Royal Cemetery of Ur: Ritual, Tradition, and the Creation of Subjects. In Representation of Political Power in Times of Change and Dissolving Order, Marlies Heinz und Marian Feldman (Hrsg.), S. 89-110. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2007

Death of a Household. In Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean, Nicola Laneri (Hrsg.), S. 209-22. Oriental Institute Seminars 3. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

2007

“Grabe, wo Du stehst!” An Archaeology of Perpetrators. In Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics, Yannis Hamilakis und Philip Duke (Hrsg.), S. 217-233. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. (mit Reinhard Bernbeck)

2004

The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East. In The Blackwell Companion to Social Archaeology, Lynn Meskell und Robert Preucel (Hrsg.), S. 335-52. Oxford: Blackwell. (mit Reinhard Bernbeck)

2003

The Looting of the Iraq Museum: Thoughts on Archaeology in a Time of Crisis. Public Archaeology 3:117-24.

2003

Feasts, Funerals, and Fast Food in Early Mesopotamian States. In The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires, Tamara Bray (Hrsg.), S. 17-38. New York: Kluwer Academic Press.

2001

The Uruk Period in Southern Mesopotamia. In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation, Mitchell Rothman (Hrsg.), S. 181-231. Santa Fe: School of American Research.

2000

And They Said, Let us Make Gods in our Image: Gendered Ideologies in Ancient Mesopotamia. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, Alison Rautman (Hrsg.), pp. 150-64. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (mit Reinhard Bernbeck).