David Wengrow
David Wengrow | |
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Born | 25 July 1972 |
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Nationality | British |
Education | DPhil) |
Subject | Archaeology |
David Wengrow (born 25 July 1972) is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.[1] He co-authored the international bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize in 2022.[2] Wengrow has contributed essays on topics such as social inequality and climate change to The Guardian[3] and The New York Times.[4] In 2021 he was ranked No. 10 in ArtReview's Power 100 list of the most influential people in art.[5]
Education
Wengrow enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1993, obtaining a BA in archaeology and anthropology.[6] He went on to qualify for an MSt in world archaeology in 1998 and then studied for a D.Phil. under the supervision of Roger Moorey completed in 2001.[7] Andrew Sherratt was a notable influence during Wengrow's time at Oxford.[8]
Academic career
Between 2001 and 2004 Wengrow was Henri Frankfort Fellow at the
Honours
Wengrow is a recipient of the Antiquity Prize[14] and has delivered the Rostovtzeff Lectures (New York University),[15] the Jack Goody Lectures (Max Planck Institute)[16] the Biennial Henry Myers Lecture (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain),[17] the Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology (British Academy),[18] and the Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities (University of Chicago).[19] He served as external coordinator of the Mellon Research Initiative at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts[20] and was Distinguished Visitor at the University of Auckland.[21] In 2023, Wengrow was awarded the Albertus Magnus Professorship by the University of Cologne, among the university's highest academic honours,[22] with previous recipients including such renowned scientists and researchers as Michael Tomasello, Bruno Latour, and Judith Butler[23]
Selected publications
Books
- The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, 10,000–2650 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.
- What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press 2010.
- The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2014.
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (co-authored with David Graeber). New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
Short essays
- "A History of True Civilisation is Not One of Monuments". Aeon 2018.
- (co-authored with David Graeber). "How to Change the Course of Human History (At Least the Part That's Already Happened)". Eurozine 2018.
- "Rethinking Cities from the Ground Up". The British Academy 2019.
- (co-authored with David Graeber). "Hiding in Plain Sight: Democracy's Indigenous Origins in the Americas". Laphams Quarterly 2020
References
- ^ UCL Homepage
- ^ "The Orwell Prizes". 17 May 2022.
- ^ Humanity is not trapped in a deadly game with the Earth – there are ways out, The Guardian, Opinion COP26, 31 October 2021
- ^ Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World, The New York Times, Opinion, Guest Essay, 4 November, 2021
- ^ ArtReview Power 100, 2021
- ^ UCL Institute of Archaeology, D. Wengrow 'Education and biography'
- ^ Obituary Roger Moorey, (1937–2004) The British Academy
- ^ J. O'Shea, S. Shennan and D. Wengrow, 'Andrew Sherratt Remembered', Antiquity Sep 2006, Vol.80 (309), pp.762–766
- ^ Wengrow, Education and Biography as listed by University College London, 1.1.2020
- ^ Field report, "New Excavations in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan". Iraq (2016) 78: 253–284
- ^ "David Wengrow | University College London - Academia.edu".
- ^ Harper, Annie; Read, Mark; Herrine, Luke; Neary, Dyan; Liu, Yvonne Yen; Bookchin, Debbie; Jordan, John; Frémeaux, Isabelle; Ross, Andrew; Wengrow, David; Sahlins, Marshall (5 September 2020). "David Graeber, 1961–2020". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ^ "'Inspirational' Activist Author David Graeber Dies". www.penguin.co.uk. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ^ The Antiquity Prize, list of past winners
- ^ The Rostovtzeff Lectures, list of past recipients, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
- ^ The Jack Goody Lectures, list of past recipients, Max Planck Institute for Ethnology and Social Anthropology
- ^ The Henry Myers Lecture, past recipients, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
- ^ The Radcliffe-Brown Lecture, past recipients British Academy
- ^ "Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series | Department of Classics".
- ^ Mellon Research Initiative, Homepage, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
- ^ Announcement (UCL), 'David Wengrow named as Distinguished Visitor, University of Auckland, 2019
- ^ "UCL News, Comparative archaeology expert recognised with prestigious honour and lecture series".
- ^ "Albertus Magnus Professorship, University of Cologne".