UNC Anthropology Colloquium Series: David Wengrow

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities

David Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL) and has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Auckland, and the University of Freiburg. In 2023 he was awarded the Albertus Magnus Professorship by the University of Cologne. David has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Africa and the Middle East. He is the author of three books including The Archaeology of Early Egypt and What Makes Civilization? and co-author of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, an international bestseller and finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2022.