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.
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