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Brian Boyd is a Professor and Director of Museum Anthropology in Columbia University's Department of Anthropology. He has conducted archaeological research in Palestine/Israel for three decades, co-directing the Columbia/Birzeit collaborative project Building Community Anthropology Across the Jordan Valley in Shuqba village since 2018. His work bridges prehistoric archaeology, political archaeology, and critical human-animal studies, supported by a Columbia University President’s Global Initiative Fund award.
Research interests include Middle Eastern prehistory, the politics of archaeological practice in conflict zones, multispecies archaeology, and sound archaeology. He has published in Asian Archaeology, Current Anthropology, and the Routledge volume Multispecies Archaeology. Boyd currently co-directs the Center for Palestine Studies, directs the Center for Archaeology, and co-chairs the Human-Animal Studies seminar. He previously served as Chair of the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Division until his Emeritus appointment.
His recent publications analyze Neanderthal social structures through acoustic reconstructions and examine the entanglements of archaeology with Israeli/Palestinian territorial claims. Grants include major support for community-based archaeological work in the West Bank. Boyd teaches courses on archaeology before the Bible, human-animal relations, and museum anthropology.
