Dr. Brian Brown

University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Brian Brown is archaeologist for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. As a junior fellow in TOPOI the research focus of his project was on the Middle Assyrian to Late Assyrian transition (ca. 1300-850 BCE), with an emphasis on state structure and its changes during this period. During the last years he was well engaged in archaeological fieldwork in Tell Feheriye (Syria). Further aspects of his archaeological und cultural research are on ideology and propaganda, social hierarchy and the origins and development of human inequality, urbanism, imperialism, visual culture and architecture, water management in ancient societies and archaeological theory and method. 
 

General Information

Group

Junior Fellow

01.07.2008 - 30.06.2009
 

Research Fields

 

Contact

Organisation / Department

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Near Eastern Studies

Address

Barrow Ln 1904
94704 Berkeley
United States

Email

Phone

+49 30 2093-99073

Fax

+49 30 2093-99080
 
 

Activities

talk

"Centers and Symbols of Kingship in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud"
part of the Workshop Monuments and performance

talk

"The Middle Assyrian Period in the West: State Extent and Intensity"
part of the Workshop The Archaeology of the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BC

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

2010 - present 

Teaching Reading and Composition courses on various aspects of ancient Near Eastern culture, including architecture and art, and literature.
University of California, Berkeley
2008-2009  

Research focus was on the Middle Assyrian to Late Assyrian transition (ca. 1300- 850 BCE), with an emphasis on state structure and its changes during this period.
Junior Fellow, Topoi Project, Freie Universität, Berlin
2002-2008  

Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies (Archaeology)
Dissertation: Monumentalizing Identities: North Syrian Urbanism, 1200-800 BCE Dissertation Committee: Marian Feldman, David Stronach (co-chairs), Carol Redmount, Kent Lightfoot; University of California, Berkeley
2000-2002   

MA with Distinction, Near Eastern Studies (Archaeology)
Examination Committee: David Stronach, Marian Feldman, Kent Lightfoot
1993-1997  

BA with Honors, Old World Art and Archaeology
Senior Honors Thesis: “The Rise of the Phoenicians and Their Role in the Neo- Assyrian Empire”

More Information about Brian Brown can be found at the Department of Near Eastern Studies (UCB).