Brian Boyd
Co-Director
BRIAN BOYD
Lecturer in Anthropology
Program Director of the Center for Archaeology
Director of the Museum Anthropology M.A. Program
Brian Boyd is Director of Museum Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology. Boyd has been carrying out archaeological research in Palestine/Israel for thirty years, and is currently co-director (with Dr. Hamed Salem, Birzeit University) of the collaborative Columbia/Birzeit project Building Community Anthropology Across the Jordan Valley in the West Bank village of Shuqba (partially supported by a Columbia University President’s Global Initiative Fund award). His publications focus on the prehistoric archaeology of the Middle East, the politics of archaeology in Israel/Palestine, critical human-animal studies, and sound/music studies. In 2018-19, his articles appeared in the journals Asian Archaeology and Current Anthropology, and in the Routledge volume Multispecies Archaeology. He is currently Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, Program Director of the Center for Archaeology, and Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Human-Animal Studies. He is also Chair Emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Division.
