University of South Carolina

Faculty Member, School of the Environment

Research Assistant Professor

Arts and Sciences

About

Dr. J.R. Pournelle is an archaeologist and anthropologist best known for reconstructing landscapes surrounding ancient cities. A Research Assistant Professor in the University of South Carolina’s Environment and Sustainability Program (formerly School of The Environment), and  past Mesopotamian Fellow of the American School of Oriental Research, her work in Turkey, Iraq, and the Caucasus has been featured by the National Science Foundation, and in  Science, The New York Times and on The Discovery Channel. She recently completed filming a segment for National Geographic Television, to air in Fall, 2011. In a former life, she received numerous decorations for service as a United States Army intelligence officer and arms control negotiator, and directed reconstruction work in Iraq as a civilian.

Pournelle is the 2010 recipient of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Book Prize, for Excavations: A City Cycle, Poems, to be released by the University of South Carolina Press in September, 2011. Her first novel, Outies, published by New Brookland Press, is an environmentally-themed work of anthropological science fiction.

Contact Information

Homepage:

http://www.environ.sc.edu/jenniferpournelle.htm

Address:

University of South Carolina
Environment & Sustainability Program
901 Sumter St., Byrnes 430A
Columbia, SC 29208

Telephone:

(803) 777-3920

 
Journal of Maritime Archaeology
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
World Archaeology

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