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Philip Kohl is Professor of Anthropology and the first Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Slavic Studies at Wellesley College. He teaches courses in physical anthropology, archaeology and on the peoples and cultures of Eurasia and the Middle East. He is particularly concerned with how the remote past is utilized for contemporary political purposes and on the historical development of archaeology and its role in the formation of nation-states and the construction of national identities and teaches a seminar on this subject. Several Wellesley students have participated in his archaeological field projects abroad. He has also advised many other students to participate in field programs in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Near East. Prof. Kohl directs the Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke and Williams Winterterm Exchange Program with Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia.
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He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1974. He is the author of L'Asie Centrale; des origines a l'age du Fer (Central Asia: Palaeolithic Beginnings to the Iron Age) (Paris, 1984), editor of The Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia: Recent Soviet Discoveries (M.E. Sharpe, 1981) and Recent Discoveries in Transcaucasia (special issue of Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology (M.E. Sharpe, 1992)), and co-editor of Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology (Cambridge 1995) with Clare Fawcett.
Currently, Prof. Kohl is co-directing a symposium on "The Naturalization of the Past: Nation-Building and the Development of Anthropology and Natural History in the Americas" at the Amerind Foundation in Arizona in May 2002 and will also participate in a seminar on Bronze Age metallurgy in the Eurasian steppes in the southern Urals region of Russia, as well as continue mapping investigations of early medieval fortifications with a Wellesley student in northeastern Azerbaijan during summer 2002. Currently he is writing a synthesis of Early Bronze Age materials from the Eurasian steppes, the Caucasus, and Central Asia and is preparing a final site report on the excavations at the Bronze Age site of Velikent and investigations in neighboring areas with two colleagues from Daghestan, Russia. He is the author of more than 120 articles and reviews on the archaeology of the ancient Near East and in archaeological theory.
He has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the New School for Social Research in New York, and in La Plata and Olavarria, Argentina. He received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work at the Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte in Heidelberg and, more recently in 1999 at the Eurasien-Abteilung, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Berlin, Germany. He also received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to teach and conduct research in Argentina in spring 2000 and was a Foreign Research Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Lyon and Paris, France in 2001. He has recently been awarded a short-term travel grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and been designated a Fulbright Senior Specialist. He has been a Fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University and a Research Associate of the Peabody Museum at Harvard and was selected to be a permanent Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in 1997. He has participated in and led archaeological investigations in Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. He has directed the International Program for Anthropological Research in the Caucasus (IPARC) since 1989 and currently is conducting excavations in Daghestan, Russia and doing survey work in the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
