Profile_PicRocco Palermo is Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College (USA). Prior to the current affiliation he was a Reseacher (RTD) at the University of Pisa (Italy). He is an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University (USA). Before joining the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr, hew as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).He received his MA in Classical Archaeology from University of Naples Federico II, where he was also a fellow of the Graduate School in Archaeology. He completed his PhD at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II and at the Maison Archéologie et Ethnologie R. Ginouvés of the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne .

Rocco has extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Oman, Iraq). He is the Director of the Gird-i Matrab Archaeological Project and former Associate Director of the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS), both located in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Rocco is the author of On the Edge of Empires. North Mesopotamia during the Roman Period. He is currently working on a book for Cambrige University Press preliminarily titled: The Archaeology of Imperial Durability. South-West Asia from Assyria to Rome

 

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