Lecturer I - Postdoc
About
Katherine Burge is an archaeologist specializing in the ancient Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. As a postdoctoral fellow for the History of Art Department during the 2024–2025 academic year, she will assist with the installation of the Kelsey Museum’s new permanent gallery, “Crossroads of Culture, 400–1800.”
Katherine received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as a curatorial research associate at the Penn Museum. Her research focuses on urban societies, socioeconomic organization, and information recording in Bronze and Iron Age Mesopotamia and employs an interdisciplinary approach—integrating material, visual, and textual data. Katherine has excavated at a number of sites in Turkey, Kurdistan, and Iraq. She is also interested in the more recent histories of colonialism and internationalism in Middle Eastern archaeology, museums, and cultural heritage policy.
