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Elspeth DusinberreÌý(Ph.D. Michigan 1997) is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia, particularly in the ways in which the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) affected local social structures and in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures. Her first book,ÌýAspects of Empire in Achaemenid SardisÌý(Cambridge 2003), examines such issues from the vantage of the Lydian capital. Her second book is a diachronic excavation monograph,ÌýGordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and SocietyÌý(Philadelphia 2005). Dusinberre's third book,ÌýEmpire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid AnatoliaÌý(Cambridge 2013), considers all of Anatolia under Persian rule and proposes a new model for understanding imperialism; it was recognized by the James R. Wiseman Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 2015. She co-edited a Festschrift for Margaret Cool Root, Art of Empire in AchaemenidÌýPersia (Leiden 2020). Most recently her work has centered on the site of Gordion in central Türkiye, including a book publishing the Phrygian cremation tumuli, Gordion Final Reports II/2: Lesser Phrygian Tumuli: The CremationsÌý(Philadelphia 2023) and various articles. Her articles have appeared in various venues, including theÌýAmerican Journal of Archaeology,ÌýArs Orientalis, theÌýAnnals of the American Schools of Oriental Research,ÌýandÌýAnatolian Studies.ÌýShe is currently studying the seal impressions on the Aramaic tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive (dating ca. 500 BCE), and the Middle and Early Phrygian peridos at Gordion, including a monograph on the Early Phrygian destruction level (ca. 800 BCE). She has worked at Sardis, Gordion, and Kerkenes DaÄŸ in Turkey, as well as at sites elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. Her work has been supported by an ACLS-SSRC fellowship, a Loeb Classical Library Foundaton fellowship, a Getty Villa Research Scholar grant, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Prof. Dusinberre teaches primarily Greek and Near Eastern archaeology at CU-Boulder. She is a President's Teaching Scholar and has been awarded twelve University of Colorado teaching awards.

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