Ann Perkins

Ann Louise Perkins (April 18, 1915 – May 7, 2006) was an American archaeologist and art historian. She began her career as a graduate and research assistant at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, then taught at Yale University and became a full professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After publishing her 1949 book The Comparative Archeology of Early Mesopotamia, she switched from Near Eastern archaeology to classical era art after working with the excavations of the ancient city of Dura-Europos, and then published the 1973 book The Art of Dura-Europos.

Biography Early life and education career Perkins was born on April 18, 1915, in Chicago;

After working at the Oriental Institute as a research assistant since 1942, Perkins moved to the Yale University Department of Classics to become a research associate there in 1949. In 1954, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Mesopotamian archaeology. She was a 1959/1960 United States Department of State specialist for one of their Middle East tours of duty. She died on May 7, 2006, in Urbana, Illinois, aged 91.