Susanne Kerner

Since 2004 Lektor (Associate Professor) in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Carsten-Niebuhr-Section (TORS) in Copenhagen, Denmark (head of section 2005-2010); previously part-time lecturer at Free University in Berlin and several short-term contracs (analysis of archaeological material and field-directorship) for the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Dr.phil (Craft specialisation and social organisation in the Southern Levant) in 1998 at Freie Universität Berlin. From 1990-1995 director at the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology and History in Amman (Jordan); 1988-1990 assistant director at the same institution.
Since 1990 director or co-director of over 10 excavations and survey seasons in Jordan (e.g. "The Desert and the Sown in Northern Jordan (DSNJ)", Umm Qais, Abu Snesleh).Numerous lectures at international conferences, organisation of exhibitions and conferences (e.g. "Food and Identity" in Copenhagen [with Cynthia Chou and Morten Warmind]; "Climate and Ancient Society" in Copenhagen, "Adaptation of Archaeological Methods in Near Eastern Archaeology" in Berlin).
Research focus: social complexity, food and identity, theoretical archaeology, rituals. Teaching: courses on Prehistory and History of Near Eastern Archaeology, Social Organisation, Food, Ritual, Commensality, Gender at undergraduate and graduate level.