Peter Cobb

Dr. Peter J. Cobb is a field archaeologist, ceramics specialist, and a digital humanist. He is an assistant professor in the Faculties of Education and Arts at the University of Hong Kong, where his coursework spans archaeology, ancient history, information sciences, and digital humanities.

 

Each summer, he leads archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasus in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia, and he also participates in projects in Laos.

 

Dr. Cobb’s research focuses on understanding the lived experiences and mobilities of people in the past. Through investigations of ancient ceramics and landscapes, his work strives to enhance our understanding of the movement and sharing of objects and ideas in the past. He also experiments with advanced digital methods for archaeological field recording and analysis, including with 3D spatial and shape data.

 

Dr. Cobb is the incoming Digital Reviews Editor for the Society of American Archaeology’s journal Advances in Archaeological Practices. He also serves on the iSchools Digital Humanities Curriculum Committee.

 

Prior to HKU, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his PhD in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. At Penn he was a Mellon Fellow in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. He also holds a master's degree from the School of Information and Library Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.