Jennifer Swerida Author

Maude de Schauensee served as Keeper, later the Fowler/Van Santvoord Keeper, of the Near Eastern Collections at the Penn Museum. She participated in six field seasons of The Hasanlu Project (1959-1974) and the 1967 field season of the University of Chicago at Selenkehiye, Syria. She serves as Associate Editor of the Hasanlu Publications. Her publications include Two Lyres from Ur (2003), Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu, Iran (2011) for which she wrote two chapters and served as volume editor, and articles on material from the Period IVB levels at Hasanlu.

Jennifer Swerida is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University and a Consulting Scholar of the Penn Museum. She is also Co-Director of the Bat Archaeological Project (Sultanate of Oman) and Assistant Director of the Nax.ivan Archaeological Project (Nax.ivan, Azerbaijan). Her research interests center on identity formation and alternative forms of social complexity in the Ancient Near East.