Gil Stein

Gil Stein
Rowe Professor in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
gstein@uchicago.edu
ISAC 237
773.702.4098
Academic CV
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988
Teaching at UChicago since 2002

Academic Bio

Gil Stein is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in NELC and at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. He also serves as Director of the Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation. His research investigates the development of the earliest urbanized states in the Near East, ancient economies, the archaeology of colonialism, inter-regional interaction, zooarchaeology, and the preservation of cultural heritage. He has directed excavations in Turkey, Syria, and is currently digging at the 5th-4th millennium BC Chalcolithic site of Surezha in Northeast Iraq. He also conducts cultural heritage preservation projects in Afghanistan and Central Asia (Uzbekistan).

Selected Publications

Preserving the Cultural heritage of Afghanistan
Michael T. Fisher, Abdul Hafiz Latify, Najibullah Popal, and Nancy Hatch Dupree, (eds.)

Preserving the Cultural heritage of Afghanistan: Proceedings of the International Conference held at Kabul University, November 2014

Oriental Institute Publications, 2017
The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives

The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives

SAR Press, 2005
Rethinking World Systems : Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia

Rethinking World Systems : Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia

Arizona Press, 1999

Recent & Regularly Taught Courses

  • NEAA 20070/30070 The Archaeology of Afghanistan
  • NEAA 20035/30035 Zooarchaeology
Affiliated Departments and Centers: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Subject Area: Near Eastern Art and Archaeology