About

Dr. Katharyn Hanson

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: 

Executive Director of The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII)

Smithsonian Fellow with the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute

EDUCATION

 University of Chicago

Ph.D.   Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2012

M.A.   Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 2006 

Bryn Mawr College

B. A.   Major: Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; Minor: Anthropology

PAST PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: 

2014-16  Post Doctoral Fellow, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

2014-16  Visiting Scholar, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2013-15 University of Delaware Program Director and Main Instructor, Archaeological Site Preservation Program at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage in Erbil, Iraq

2009-13  Research Assistant, Dr. Gibson, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago