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Prof. Dr. Susan Pollock

Susan Pollock

Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie

Professor

Address
Fabeckstr. 23/25
Room -1.1052
14195 Berlin
Telephone
+49 30 838 57026
Email
s.pollock@fu-berlin.de
Specialists interest
  • Archaeology of Iran and Mesopotamia
  • Feminism and Gender in Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
  • Eating practices and commensality
  • Subjectivation theories
  • Ideology
  • Politics and Archaeology
  • Households, communities und political economy
  • Archaeology in the media

 

Academic Education

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

 

Academic positions and scholarships

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

 

Archaeological field work (own projects)

1985-1988, 1990

Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh, Iraq

1996-1998

Kazane Höyük, southeastern Turkey. Co-directed with R. Bernbeck (Project under the direction of  Patricia Wattenmaker)

2003

Excavations in Toll-e Bashi, Fars, Iran. Co-directed with R. Bernbeck und K. Abdi

2005

Excavations in Rahmatabad, Fars, Iran. Co-directed with H. Fazeli und R. Bernbeck

1998-2001, 2008

Excavations and post-excavation studies in Fistikli Höyük, Southeastern Turkey. Co-directed with R. Bernbeck

2010-

Excavation in Monjukli Depe, southern Turkmenistan. Co-directed with R. Bernbeck.

2012-2014

Excavations of Nazi forced labor camps of Lufthansa and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH as well as  the "Columbia" concentration camp on the Tempelhofer Airfield (Berlin) (with Reinhard Bernbeck)

2015

Excavations in the "Halfmoon Camp" from 1. Worldwar in Wünsdorf (Brandenburg) (Co-directed with Reinhard Bernbeck, in Cooperation with A.B.D. Dressler)

2015-2016

Excavations next to the University Library and in the garden of the CeDis building of Freie Universität Berlin, once property of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Institute for Human Heredity, Eugenics.
 

Publications: Monographs and edited volumes

  1. Susan Pollock, Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1999)
  2. Susan Pollock und Reinhard Bernbeck (eds.), Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives, Oxford: Blackwell. (2005)
  3. Maria Theresia Starzmann, Susan Pollock, und Reinhard Bernbeck (Hrsg:innen), Imperial Inspections: Archaeology, War, and Violence, Archaeologies 4(3). (2008)
  4. Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, und Kamyar Abdi (eds.), The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village, Archäologie in Iran und Turan 10. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern. (2010)
  5. Susan Pollock (ed.), Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (2015 [2012]) edition-topoi.org/books/details/809
  6. Susan Pollock und Abbas Moghaddam, Tepe Sohz and Tol-e Chega Sofla: Heritage at Risk. Tehran: RICHT. (2018)
  7. Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck und Birgül Öğüt (Hrsg:innen) Looking Closely. Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010-2014, Volume I. Leiden: Sidestone Press. (2019)
  8. Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt und Susan Pollock (Hrsg:innen) Coming to Terms with the Future: Resilience and Crises in Highland Iranian Societies. Leiden: Sidestone (2023)

 
Article (selection)

2024

Franz Boas: Between Anti-Racism and Reification. EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift57(1). https://doi.org/10.54799/RGBN4865. (Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck)

2023

Living Amidst the Ruins: Continuities, Interruptions, and Memory in a 5th mill. BCE Village in the Kopet Dag Foothills. In From Households to Empires. Papers in Honor of Bradley J. Parker, Jason Kennedy and Patrick Mullins, eds., pp. 63-78. Leiden: Sidestone. (Susan Pollock and Ilia Heit)

2023

The Violence of Collecting. American Anthropologist 125: 377-389. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13845.

2020

Emotions and Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia. In The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, edited by Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert, pp. 231-245. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

2020

Archäologie, Zeugenschaft und Counter-Forensics. In Archäologie der Moderne. Standpunkte und Perspektiven, Hrsg. von Fritz Jürgens und Ulrich Müller, S. 271-287. Historische Archäologie Sonderband 2020. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt.

2019

Seals and Sealings from Dehsavar. In Pathways through Arslantepe. Essays in Honour of Marcella Frangipane, edited by Francesca Balossi Restelli, Andrea Cardarelli, Gian Maria Di Nocera, Linda Manzanilla, Lucia Mori, Giulio Palumbi, Holly Pittman, pp. 379-389. Viterbo: Università di Roma La Sapienza and Sette Città. (Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck and Christine Kainert)

2019

Are All Things Created Equal? The Incidental in Archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30(1): 141-149 (Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, Lena Appel, Anna K. Loy and Stefan Schreiber)

2019

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

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 3rd 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.

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

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

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.

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).

 Professional activities

  • Member, Scientific Board of the Serie, Studi di Preistoria Orientale, Rome La Sapienza.
  • Member, Scientific Board of the Magazine Origini, Rome La Sapienza
  • Corresponding member, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Antiquity.
  • Member of the editiorial collective of the online Forum Critical Archeology (www.kritischearchaeologie.de)

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Publications, Monographs and edited volumes

  1. Susan Pollock, Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1999)
  2. Susan Pollock und Reinhard Bernbeck (Hrsg.), Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives, Oxford: Blackwell. (2005)
  3. Maria Theresia Starzmann, Susan Pollock, und Reinhard Bernbeck (Hrsg:innen), Imperial Inspections: Archaeology, War, and Violence, Archaeologies 4(3). (2008)
  4. Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, und Kamyar Abdi (Hrsg:innen), The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village, Archäologie in Iran und Turan 10. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern. (2010)
  5. Susan Pollock (Hrsgin), Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (2015 [2012]) edition-topoi.org/books/details/809
  6. Susan Pollock und Abbas Moghaddam, Tepe Sohz and Tol-e Chega Sofla: Heritage at Risk. Tehran: RICHT. (2018)
  7. Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck und Birgül Öğüt (Hrsg:innen) Looking Closely. Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010-2014, Volume I. Leiden: Sidestone Press. (2019)
  8. Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt und Susan Pollock (Hrsg:innen) Coming to Terms with the Future: Resilience and Crises in Highland Iranian Societies. Leiden: Sidestone (2023)

 
Article (Selection)

2024

Franz Boas: Between Anti-Racism and Reification. EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift57(1). https://doi.org/10.54799/RGBN4865. (Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck)

2023

Living Amidst the Ruins: Continuities, Interruptions, and Memory in a 5th mill. BCE Village in the Kopet Dag Foothills. In From Households to Empires. Papers in Honor of Bradley J. Parker, Jason Kennedy and Patrick Mullins, eds., pp. 63-78. Leiden: Sidestone. (Susan Pollock and Ilia Heit)

2023

The Violence of Collecting. American Anthropologist 125: 377-389. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13845.

2020

Emotions and Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia. In The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, edited by Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert, pp. 231-245. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

2020

Archäologie, Zeugenschaft und Counter-Forensics. In Archäologie der Moderne. Standpunkte und Perspektiven, Hrsg. von Fritz Jürgens und Ulrich Müller, S. 271-287. Historische Archäologie Sonderband 2020. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt.

2019

Seals and Sealings from Dehsavar. In Pathways through Arslantepe. Essays in Honour of Marcella Frangipane, edited by Francesca Balossi Restelli, Andrea Cardarelli, Gian Maria Di Nocera, Linda Manzanilla, Lucia Mori, Giulio Palumbi, Holly Pittman, pp. 379-389. Viterbo: Università di Roma La Sapienza and Sette Città. (Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck and Christine Kainert)

2019

Are All Things Created Equal? The Incidental in Archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30(1): 141-149 (Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, Lena Appel, Anna K. Loy and Stefan Schreiber)

2019

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

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 3rd 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.

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

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

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.

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).

 Professional activities

  • Member, Scientific Board of the serie Studi di Preistoria Orientale, Rome La Sapienza.
  • Member, Scientific Board of the Magazine Origini, Rome La Sapienza
  • Corresponding Member, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Antiquity.
  • Member of the editorial collective of the online Forum Critical Archaeology (www.kritischarchaeologie.de)

 

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