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Overview

Lynn Meskell is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as Archeology, Space and Planetary Science, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Conservation.

The primary focus of Meskell's work revolves around Archaeological Research and Protection, Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation, as well as studies related to Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts, Conservation Techniques, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography, and Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies.

Frequent publication venues for Meskell include:

  • International Journal of Heritage Studies
  • International Journal of Cultural Property
  • American Anthropologist
  • Contemporary Levant
  • Archaeological Dialogues

Meskell's recent papers demonstrate a focus on heritage, internationalism, and diplomacy within archaeology and cultural preservation. Examples include:

  • Toilets first, temples second: adopting heritage in neoliberal India, 2020, International Journal of Heritage Studies
  • Imperialism, Internationalism, and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East, 2020, American Anthropologist
  • The world is not enough: New diplomacy and dilemmas for the World Heritage Convention at 50, 2022, International Journal of Cultural Property

Collaborations are a key component of Meskell's work. Frequent co-authors include Benjamin Isakhan, Claudia Liuzza, Christina Luke, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, and Sarah LaPorte.

Best Publications

  • Negative heritage and past mastering in archaeology

    Lynn Meskell

  • Archaeology Under Fire : Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

    Lynn Meskell

  • Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class et cetera in Ancient Egypt

    Lynn Meskell

  • Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present

    Lynn Meskell

  • Archaeologies of identity

    Lynn Meskell

  • The Intersections of Identity and Politics in Archaeology

    Lynn Meskell

  • A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

    Lynn Meskell

  • The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa

    Lynn Meskell

  • Embodied Lives: : Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience

    Rosemary A. Joyce;Lynn M. Meskell

  • Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology

    Lynn Meskell

  • UNESCO's World Heritage Convention at 40 Challenging the Economic and Political Order of International Heritage Conservation

    Lynn Meskell

  • Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt

    Lynn Meskell

  • The somatization of archaeology: Institutions, discourses, corporeality

    Lynn Meskell

  • Multilateralism and UNESCO World Heritage: decision-making, States Parties and political processes

    L. Meskell;C. Liuzza;Enrico Eraldo Bertacchini;Donatella Saccone

  • Archaeological ethnography: Conversations around Kruger National Park

    Lynn Meskell;Lynn Meskell

  • A companion to social archaeology

    Lynn Meskell;Robert W. Preucel

  • States of Conservation: Protection, Politics, and Pacting within UNESCO's World Heritage Committee

    Lynn Meskell

  • The rush to inscribe: Reflections on the 35th Session of the World Heritage Committee, UNESCO Paris, 2011

    Lynn Meskell

  • Intimate archaeologies: The case of Kha and Merit

    Lynn Meskell

  • Archaeologies of Materiality

    Lynn Meskell

  • UNESCO and the Fate of the World Heritage Indigenous Peoples Council of Experts (WHIPCOE)

    Lynn Meskell

  • Emotion in archaeology. Commentary

    Sarah Tarlow;James R. Averill;Fiona Campbell;Joanna Hansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder Stanford University

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