Martha Sharp Joukowsky (2 September 1936 - 7 January 2022) was a Near Eastern archaeologist and a retired member of the faculty of
Brown University
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known for her fieldwork at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan.
Early life and education
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of
Waitstill Hastings Sharp and
Martha Ingham Dickie, noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during
World War II
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. Joukowsky was educated at
Pembroke College (B.A. 1958)
American University of Beirut
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(MA 1972) and
Paris I-Sorbonne (Ph.D. 1982).
Academic career
From 1982 to 2002 Joukowsky was Professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her archaeological fieldwork has included work in Lebanon (1967-1972), Hong Kong (1972-1973), Turkey (1975-1986), Italy (1982-1985), and Greece (1987-1990). Joukowsky conducted archaeological fieldwork at
Petra in Jordan for more than ten years, beginning in 1992.
Her work, and that of Brown University, focused on Petra's so-called "Great Temple" during that time.
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was also elected as President (1989-1993) of the
Archaeological Institute of America
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and was Trustee for the
American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...
, Lebanon. She also serves as Trustee ''Emerita'' of Brown University.
Personal life
Artemis A. W. Joukowsky
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, her husband, was chancellor of Brown University (1997–98) and together they created the
Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in 2004; the institute was first directed by
Susan Alcock, who was succeeded in the post by
Peter van Dommelen.
Honours
In 1993 Joukowsky endowed an annual lecture series in her own name for the
Archaeological Institute of America
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.
She accepted the
Yad Vashem
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award on behalf of her parents in 2006.
Selected publications
#1980. ''A complete manual of field archaeology: tools and techniques of field work for archaeologists''. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall.
#1988. The young archaeologist in the oldest port city in the world. Beirut: Dar el-Machreq.
#1996a. ''Early Turkey: an introduction to the archaeology of Anatolia from prehistory through the Lydian period''. Dubuque (IA): Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
#1996b. ''Prehistoric Aphrodisias: an account of the excavations and artifact studies''. Providence (RI): Brown University, Center for Old World Archaeology and Art.
#1998. ''Petra Great Temple: Brown University excavations, 1993-1997''. Providence (RI): Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.
#Cohen, G. & M.S. Joukowsky. (ed.) 2004. ''Breaking ground: pioneering women archaeologists''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
#2007. ''Petra Great Temple, Volume II: archaeological contexts of the remains and excavations''. Providence (RI): Brown University Petra Exploration Fund.
References
External links
Petra Great Temple ExcavationsJoukowsky Family Foundation
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1936 births
Living people
People from Montague, Massachusetts
Archaeologists of the Near East
Brown University faculty
20th-century American archaeologists
American women archaeologists
20th-century women writers
20th-century American women
American women academics
21st-century American women
Pembroke College in Brown University alumni