Peter van Dommelen

From 1993 to 1997, during his doctoral studies, van Dommelen was a graduate research assistant in the Department of Archaeology at Leiden University. In 1997, he moved to the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he had been appointed a lecturer in archaeology. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005 and appointed Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in 2008.^[2]

In 2012, van Dommelen moved to Brown University in the United States where he had been appointed Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology.^[1][2] In July 2015, he was appointed Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown, stepping down from that role in 2023.^[5]

Van Dommelen was founding co-editor of Archaeological Dialogues from 1994 to 2005 and its managing editor from 2003 to 2005. Since 2006, he has been co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. Since 2007, he has been co-editor of World Archaeology, a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of archaeology.^[2]

• Van Dommelen, Peter (1998). On colonial grounds: a comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia. Leiden: University of Leiden. ISBN 978-9076368023.
• Van Dommelen, Peter; Gómez Bellard, Carlos (2008). Rural landscapes of the Punic world. London: Equinox. ISBN 978-1845532703.
• Rowlands, Michael; Van Dommelen, Peter (2013). Material culture and postcolonial theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415247283.
• Van Dommelen, Peter; Knapp, A. Bernard, eds. (2010). Material connections in the ancient Mediterranean: mobility, materiality, and Mediterranean identities. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415586689.
• Knapp, A. Bernard; van Dommelen, Peter, eds. (2015). The Cambridge prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521766883.