Peter van Dommelen

Peter Alexander René van Dommelen (born 1966, Terneuzen) is a Dutch archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the archaeology of the Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology. From July 2015 through June 2023, he was Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

Early life and education Van Dommelen was born in the Netherlands and took part in his first excavation while in high school. He studied classics and archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He graduated with two Master of Arts (MA) degrees in 1990, and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1998.

Academic career From 1993 to 1997, during his doctoral studies, van Dommelen was a graduate research assistant in the Department of Archaeology at Leiden University. In 1997, he moved to the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he had been appointed a lecturer in archaeology. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005 and appointed Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in 2008.

Van Dommelen was founding co-editor of Archaeological Dialogues from 1994 to 2005 and its managing editor from 2003 to 2005. Since 2006, he has been co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. Since 2007, he has been co-editor of World Archaeology, a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of archaeology.

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