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Rocco Palermo is an Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, specializing in the long-term human-environment interactions within imperial contexts of South-West Asia from the Iron Age to the Roman period.
His research integrates multiple data sources including survey records, excavation evidence, GIS analysis, paleo-environmental data, and historical documents, with particular focus on rural and non-urban communities within pre-modern empires. His methodology emphasizes landscape archaeology, spatial analysis, and pottery studies to understand settlement patterns and cultural transformations.
Dr. Palermo is the author of On the Edge of Empires. North Mesopotamia during the Roman Period (Routledge, 2019) and is currently working on a second monograph People, Peasants, and the Empire. Landscape and Settlements in Mesopotamia from Assyria to Rome under contract with Cambridge University Press.
His fieldwork spans multiple continents:
- Director of Girdi Matrab Archaeological Project (GMAP) in Iraqi Kurdistan (2022-present)
- Associate Director of Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (until 2022)
- Member of Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (2012-2018)
- Italian Archaeological Project at Tell Barri, Syria (2003-2010)
- Research on Inuit and Thule communities in Arctic Canada
Prior to Bryn Mawr, he was a Researcher at the University of Pisa (2021-2023) and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen (2017-2021), where he led the NWO-funded project Beyond the Rivers of Babylon: Settlements and Landscapes in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.
