Unforeseeable Futures

Prof. dr. Susan Pollock:

Susan Pollock held positions as professor of Western Asian Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. She has long-standing research interests in village, early state, and urban societies in Western Asia and has conducted fieldwork in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. She also researches more recent periods and has worked on sites of the 20th century in and around Berlin. Her research draws on feminist and political economic approaches to the study of the past, with specific attention to processes of subjectivation and the place of commensality in social life.
Prof. dr. Reinhard Bernbeck:

Reinhard Bernbeck is Professor i.R. of Western Asian archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His interests include the prehistory of Iran, archaeological manifestations of repression, exploitation and suffering, and ideological dimensions of archaeological practice. He has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. He has also investigated several prisoner-of-war and forced labor camps from the 20th century in Germany.
Prof. Dr. Martin Kehl:

Martin Kehl is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Koblenz and studies the significance of climate and humans for landscape evolution as well as the effects of environmental changes on pre-modern societies. He investigates sedimentary archives of past environmental change and human adaptation including soils, loess, lake sediments and anthropogenic deposits. His research focuses on the Late Quaternary and Iran.
Dr. Gisela Eberhardt:

Gisela Eberhardt is a project manager for the joint research project "The Iranian Highlands. Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin and an editor in the editorial department at the German Archaeological Institute's (DAI) head office. She holds a PhD in archaeology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was one of the managing editors of Edition Topoi.