People

James F. Osborne

Office:
375 Spaulding

Phone:
(716) 645-0414

Email:

jamesosb@buffalo.edu

Title:

IEMA Post-doctoral Scholar 2011-2012. Organizer of the Fifth IEMA Visiting Scholar Spring Conference, 2012: Approaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record

Education:

Ph.D., May 2011
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Thesis: Spatial Analysis and Political Authority in the Iron Age Kingdom of Patina, Turkey

A.M., 2008
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

B.A. (Honours), 2003
University of Toronto, ON
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Research Interests:

Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East, Spatial Analysis, Archaeological Method and Theory, Social Theory, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Built Environment Studies, Ancient Settlement Patterns and Urbanism, Near Eastern Languages

Selected Publications:

In press. Territoriality in Archaeology. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (AP3A). Arlington, VA: Wiley-Blackwell [co-editor].

In press. "Home Turf: Archaeology, Territoriality, and Politics," in Territoriality in Archaeology. Edited by James F. Osborne and Nathaniel P. VanValkenburgh. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (AP3A). Arlington, VA: Wiley-Blackwell [second author].

In press. "The Pottery," in The University of Chicago’s Excavations at Tell Ta’yinat, Amuq Plain, Southeastern Turkey. Edited by H. Snow. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Press [130 pp].

2011. "Secondary Mortuary Practice and the Bench Tomb: Structure and Practice in Iron Age Judah." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 70.1: 35-53.

2007. "Tel Halif," in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 2. Edited by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, pp.721-2. Nashville: Abingdon Press.