Henry Tutwiler Wright

Henry Tutwiler Wright (born 1943) is an American archeologist and educator. Wright has had significant contributions to the field of archaeology through his fieldwork, publications, and teaching. He serves as the Albert Clanton Spaulding Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He earned a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. degree in Near Eastern archaeology from University of Chicago (1967).

Wright has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Madagascar, eastern North America and the American Midwest. From 1968 until 1978, he researched Mesopotamia in Iran.

Awards 2009 – Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)

Publications "Agent Based Modeling of Small-Scaled Societies", Dynamics in human and primate societies: agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes, Editors Timothy A. Kohler, George J. Gumerman, Oxford University Press US, 2000, "James Bennett Griffin", Biographical Memoirs, Volume 90, National Academies Press, 2009,