Peter van Dommelen

Professor Peter van Dommelen
Nationality	Dutch
Title	Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology
Academic background
Alma mater	Leiden University
Thesis title	On colonial grounds. A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia (1998)
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology and classics
Sub discipline	Archaeology of the Western Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic archaeology
Institutions	University of Glasgow Brown University

Peter van Dommelen is a Dutch archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the archaeology of the Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology. Since July 2015, he has been Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

Van Dommelen was born in the Netherlands and took part in his first excavation while in high school. He studied classics and archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He graduated with two Master of Arts (MA) degrees in 1990, and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1998. His doctoral thesis was titled "On colonial grounds. A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia".

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.

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. In July 2015, he was appointed Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown.

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