Joseph Harris is a PhD Student in The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. His research focuses on chipped stone from the Epipaleolithic to Chalcolithic. Joseph completed his BA in Classical Archaeology at UNC Chapel Hill in 2022, and afterwards he spent an Affiliate year at University College London's Institute of Archaeology.
Joseph has worked in Iraqi Kurdistan, Oman, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Greece, and North Carolina. Currently, he serves as project chipped stone analyst at Göbekli Tepe (an Early Neolithic site near Urfa), the ISAC's Surezha project (a Late Chalcolithic site south of Erbil), and on HERDS iN Oman (a Neolithic project near al Khashabah). Joseph also leads a research project studying the Braidwood legacy assemblages in the ISAC Museum collections.
Away from archaeological fieldwork, Joseph is working on becoming fluent in Sorani Kurdish—the language spoken in most of Iraqi Kurdistan—and Turkish. He also has an interest in critiquing archaeological knowledge production, particularly nationalist and disciplinary influences.