Alumni
There are many notable undergraduate and graduate students who have completed degrees at the Institute and the programs connected with archaeological studies at Brown University. More information on these alumni will be forthcoming over the next months.
Alumni of the Center for Old World Archaeology, the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, or associated programs at Brown who would like their names to be listed on our webpage, or who wish to
share news or announcements, should email Joukowsky_Institute@Brown.edu.
Alumni News and Updates
Carolyn Bachman
Carolyn finished her MA in Archaeology at University College London in 2004, after graduating from Brown with an A.B. with honors in Old World Archaeology and Art and Classics. She is currently an Art Projects Coordinator at the American Friends of the Israel Museum. She previously worked as a Junior Specialist in the Antiquities department at Christie's. (January 2009)
Charles G. Haberl, PhD
Charles studied with Martha Joukowsky at Brown from 1994-1998, graduating with a joint BA in Ancient Studies/Old World Archaeology and Art. During that time he participated in two seasons at the Brown-Louvain-la-Neuve Excavations on the Corfu Palaeopolis. He received his MA and PhD from Harvard University in 2003 and 2006 respectively, and is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures. He was recently asked to assume the directorship of Rutgers' Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His book, The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr, has just been published by the German publishing house Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden: 2009). It is a grammar of an endangered and sparsely documented dialect of Aramaic, formerly spoken in a small region straddling the Iran-Iran border and today spoken primarily in the Iranian city of Ahvaz and in a growing diaspora. While he is primarily engaged in documenting endangered languages, he continues to conduct the epigraphic research that he initiated many years ago at Brown, focusing primarily on the Aramaic-language incantation bowls recovered from various archaeological contexts in Iraq. (June 2009)
Zoe Kontes
Profile on alumna Zoe Kontes in Duke Magazine (October 2006):
www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/091006/depsyl.html
Asif Rehman
After graduating from Brown in 2003 with an A.B. in Old World Archaeology And Art, Asif joined Cowen & Co., a boutique investment bank in New York. In 2006, Asif moved to Boston to join Bain Capital, where he currently invests in the retail, restaurant and utilities sectors. Asif can be reached at asif@alumni.brown.edu. (April 2007)
Aaron Rosenthal
After graduating from Brown, Aaron attended the Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York, NY and recently received his Master's degree in Art Business. He worked at Christie's as an AML Representative from October 2008 to July 2009, and will be attending Depaul University School of Law in Chicago starting in August. (July 2009)