Jonathan Haas
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Jonathan Haas
Curator of Anthropology at Field Museum, Chicago, US
Professor Jonathan Haas is an antropological archaeologist with over 30 years of field experience. He currently works as the Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, US, and as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University. His areas of particular expertise include the origins of war, the archaeology of the Southwest and Peru, the evolution of complex society and museum anthropology.
He obtained his BA in 1970 from the University of Arizona, and his MA in Anthropology in 1974 at Columbia University. By the same institution, Haas was awarded his MPhil in 1976 and his PhD in 1979. In his fieldwork since the 1970, he has worked in locations ranging from the northern United States to Andean South America. He has studied urban archaeology in Virginia, and directs a long-term project investigating the origins of Andean civilization in the 3rd millennium BC on the coast of Peru.
Haas joined the Field Museum in 1989, and rose to curator in 1994. He began work at Northern Illinois University in 1999, having previously worked as a professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago since 1995.
Haas has been published in several leading books, newspapers and journals, and lectured across the United States. He has contributed to various TV documentaries and news features, for networks and channels including PBS, the National Geographic Channel, the BBC, CNN and CBS. Titles of exhibitions Haas has curated at the Field Museum include 'The Art of the Arapaho', 'Cochiti Figurines', 'Treasures of the Americas' and Ancient Americas.
