Bradley Parker

Associate Professor, History
Associate Professor, Middle East Center
Associate Professor, Colonialism and Imperialism
Associate Professor, Middle East History
Associate Professor, World History

History
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
215 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm 310
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112

Office Hours: M,W 11-12 (CTIHB 209)
Office Phone: 581-8076
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>> Curriculum Vitae
My Website: www.utarp.org

Degrees:
1998 Ph.D. UCLA
1993 M.A. UCLA
1991 B.A. UC Berkeley

Bradley J. Parker is Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology in the Department of History/Middle East Center at the University of Utah. Bradley earned his Ph.D. from the Archaeology Program at UCLA in 1998. His first book entitled "The Mechanics of Empire" was published by the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project at the University of Helsinki in 2001. Shortly after completing his dissertation, Bradley founded the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP). As director of UTARP, Bradley has conducted surveys and excavations at several sites in the Upper Tigris River region of southeastern Turkey. Since 2000 this field work has concentrated on the four hectare multi-period mound of Kenan Tepe. Research at Kenan Tepe has been funded by many sources including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Geographic Society (for more information about UTARP visit the project website at www.utarp.org). Reports and the analysis of data recovered as part of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP) have appeared in several regional journals including Anatolian Studies (52 [2002]; 53 [2003]) and Anatolica (29 [2003]; 31 [2005]; 32 [2006]; 34 [2008]; 35 [2009]). In addition, Bradley has continued to focus his research on several theoretical topics including ancient imperialism (American Journal of Archaeology 107 [2003] and Iraq 59 [1997]) and frontiers (Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21 [2002]), American Antiquity 71(1) [2006] and "Untaming the Frontier" [University of Arizona Press 2005]). Bradley’s current research is taking him in new directions. Excavations at Kenan Tepe have produced remains from two prehistoric periods of Near Eastern History: the Middle Chalcolithic or Ubaid period (ca. 5000-4000 BCE), and the Late Chalcoltihic or Uruk period (ca. 4000-3000 BCE) while ethnoarchaeological research carried out by the project is also yielding interesting results. These data are the subject of several new studies including two final report monographs enumerating the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project’s excavations at Kenan Tepe. In the fall of 2006, Bradley inaugurated the new Microarchaeology Laboratory at the University of Utah. Since then a group of students have aided him in developing a protocol for processing microarchaeology samples exported from his excavations in Turkey. The Mocroarch Lab has since moved to a new location in CTIHB 209.
For selected publications by Bradley J. Parker go to:
http://arcserver.usc.edu/team/parker_publications.html

Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:

Keywords: Ancient Imperialism; Household Archaeology; Frontiers; Microarchaeology; Ethnoarchaeology
Regions: Asia, Western; Turkey (6); Iraq (2); Syria

Research Projects

Selected Publications by Bradley J. Parker

UTARP [details]

Current Courses

HIST 3390-1 Mesopotamian Civilization
HIST 4990-4 Senior Seminar
MID E 3539-1 Mesopotamian Civilizations

Courses I Teach

HIST 1500 World Hist to 1500
HIST 3005 Ancient Empires
HIST 3390 Ancient Near East
HIST 3390 Mesopotamian Civilization
HIST 4000 Archaeology as History
HIST 4005 Hist of Biblical World
HIST 4990 Senior Seminar
HIST 6000 Archaeology as History
MID E 3500 Ancient Empires
MID E 3539 Mesopotamian Civilizations
MID E 4500 Hist of Biblical World

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