augusta mcmahon

Vice president of the board of directors

Dr. Augusta McMahon is Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures – West Asia and North Africa at the University of Chicago. From 1995 to 2022, she taught in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests include ancient urbanism, social stress and violent conflict, and sensory archaeology, or the daily lived experience of people in the past. She is Director of the ISAC Nippur excavation in South Iraq, examining the cycles of urban expansion and contraction in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, and the effects of government-led urban renewal on ancient city planning, immigration, neighbourhoods and households.

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