Tobin Hartnell, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Department Chair | The American University of Iraq Sulaimani

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Tobin Hartnell, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Department Chair

Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Director, Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHE)
 
M.A University of Chicago
 
Office: B-F2-03
Email: tobin.hartnell [at] auis.edu.krd
 
Dr. Hartnell is an archaeologist with two decades of experience working in Australia and the Middle East. He completed his thesis on Persepolis, the capital of ancient Persia, before coming to AUIS. His research interests include the local politics and economic systems of ancient Mesopotamian and Persian Empires. His most recent work on the Sasanian Empire (224 - 651 CE) is published in the Journal of Ancient History.

He is also the founding director of the AUIS Center of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (CACHE).

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

2014 Hartnell, Tobin, "Agriculture in Sasanian Persis: Ideology and Practice", Journal of Ancient History, Volume 2, pp. 182 - 207.

2002 McGuire. Gibson; Reichel, Clemens; Hartnell Tobin; Al-Azm, Amr; Quntar, Salam; Franke, Judith A.; Khalidi, Lamya; Hritz, Carrie; Altaweel, Mark; Coyle, Colleen; Adbul Aziz, Ghassan; “Hamoukar: A Summary of Three Seasons of Excavation,” Akkadica, Volume 123, pp. 11 - 34.

2000 Diane Barker and Toby Hartnell, "Notes on a decorated spiny oyster from Sharm,” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 11, Issue 2, pp. 204 - 206.

1999 Toby Hartnell and Diane Barker, "Decorated discs from Sharm," Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 205 - 212.

Conference Proceedings

2012 Hartnell, Tobin, Ali Asadi, "Achaemenid Persepolis in Context", Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 1, pp. 125 - 138.

2010 Hartnell, Tobin, Ali Asadi, "An Archaeological Survey of Water Management in the hinterland of Persepolis", Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 2, pp. 219 - 232.

2015 Asadi, Ali, Tobin Hartnell, "Achaemenid settlements in Persepolis region, a new approach - Pulvar Valley archaeological survey (2)" Bastanpazhuhi Journal (in Persian).

Book Reviews

2015 "Nomadism in Iran" by D. T. Potts, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Volume 74, Issue 1.

INTERVIEWS

Dr. Hartnell on the destruction of the historic site of Nimrud at the hands of ISIS on the PBS NewsHour.