1985 – 2014
Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton NY

2009 – 2022
Professor, Institute for Near Eastern (West Asian) Archaeology, Free University Berlin

1983 – 1984
Mesopotamian Fellow, American Schools of Oriental Research

1990 – 1991, 1994 – 1995
Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Free University Berlin

1983
PhD, University of Michigan 

Fields of Research

• early village and state societies in Western Asia
• political economy of early state and urban societies
• the making of subjects and identities
• feminist approaches in archaeology
• archaeology of modernity
• politics of archaeological practice

2023
Susan Pollock. 2023. The Violence of Collecting. American Anthropologist 125: 377-389.

2022
Susan Pollock. 2022. Emotions and Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia. In The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert, eds. pp. 231-245. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

2019
Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, and Birgül Öğüt, eds. 2019. Looking Closely. Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014, Volume I. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

2012
Susan Pollock, ed. 2012. Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces. e-Topoi Special Volume 2.

1999
Susan Pollock. 1999. Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.