Joseph Harris is a PhD Student in The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. He focuses on prehistory and is engaged in research spanning 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 is annual staff on the ISAC's Surezha project—a Late Chalcolithic site south of Erbil—and on HERDS iN Oman—a Neolithic project near al Khashabah. On both, he serves as the project lithics analyst. 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. He also has an interest in critiquing archaeological knowledge production, particularly nationalist and disciplinary influences.