John F. Cherry
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John F. Cherry is a British-American prehistorian and archaeologist, specialising in Aegean prehistory and survey archaeology. He is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Classics at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan.
From 1966 to 1969, he studied Latin and Greek at the University of Bristol, graduating with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He then studied classical archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in anthropology in 1973. Returning to England, he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Southampton: his supervisor was Colin Renfrew, and his doctoral thesis was titled "Diachronic island archaeology in the Aegean: a case study on Melos " (1981).[1][2]
