Peri A. Johnson, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Archaeology
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About
A survey archaeologist, I conduct fieldwork projects in Turkey with an emphasis on the second through first millennia BCE. Many of my more theoretical interests emerge from the fieldwork encounter, both in the colonial past and the neoimperial present. These range from colonial research as extraction, the illicit antiquities market, and the intertwined destruction of archaeological and ecological landscapes under globalized capitalism, particularly how all of these impact the construction of knowledge, and the legal and regulatory context of fieldwork. We are at a turning point in fieldwork as we transition from a postcolonial critique of our colonial framework to the decolonization of our knowledge and practice as the earth is warming. Survey methodology is dependent on technologies developed for mining and military applications; fieldwork practice must respond to the politics of these technologies and of heritage, particularly as both relate to the carbon economy.
I am working on a book project provisionally titled Archaeology as extraction; fieldwork in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic.
Education
PhD in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from University of Pennsylvania
BA in Classics from Reed College