Joe Greene

Dr. Greene received his Ph.D. in archaeology in 1986 at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute) of the University of Chicago. He completed eight seasons of fieldwork in Carthage (Tunisia), directing the Carthage Survey from 1980 to 1983. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in Jordan, a Fulbright Fellow in Cyprus, and has directed excavations and surveys in both countries. In 1987–88 he was founding director of the USAID Cultural Resource Management Project in Jordan and in 2001–2001 served as a consultant to the Petra National Trust, a Jordanian NGO devoted to the preservation of the archaeological site of Petra. He has been editor of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Archaeological Reports Series (2003–2008) and of the ASOR Annual (2009–2014). His research interests focus on landscape archaeology of the Mediterranean/Middle East region with emphasis on the first millennium B.C./A.D., on cultural resource management in the Mediterranean/Middle East region, and on museums and the history of museums in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. In 2014–2015 he was a member of a Harvard-based museum consulting group working in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He has lectured for tours in the Eastern and Western Mediterranean since the 1980s. For the Harvard Alumni Association he led trips to Uzbekistan and Iran in 2016, to Iran in 2018 and to Qatar, Oman and Jordan in 2019. In 2020, he retired as Curator and Deputy Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and now as a Museum Associate continues to work on the publication of excavations at Carthage and at Tell el-Kheleifeh, Jordan.