David Wengrow


David Wengrow is a British archaeologist and Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Education

Wengrow enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1993, obtaining a BA in archaeology and anthropology. He went on to qualify for an MSt in world archaeology in 1998 and then studied for a D.Phil. under the supervision of Roger Moorey completed in 2001. Andrew Sherratt was a notable influence during Wengrow's time at Oxford.

Academic career

Between 2001 and 2004 Wengrow was Henri Frankfort Fellow at the Warburg Institute and Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; he was appointed to a lectureship at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 2004, and in 2011 was made Professor of Comparative Archaeology. Wengrow has conducted archaeological excavations in Africa and the Middle East, most recently with the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraqi Kurdistan and is currently working on a historical study of social inequality with LSE anthropologist David Graeber.

Honours

Wengrow is a recipient of the Antiquity Prize
and has delivered the Rostovtzeff Lectures, the Jack Goody Lectures and the Biennial Henry Myers Lecture. He served as external coordinator of the Mellon Research Initiative at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and was Distinguished Visitor at the University of Auckland.

Selected publications

Books