Gojko Johansen Barjamovic is Senior Lecturer on Assyriology at
Harvard University.[1] He received his training at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and was employed as a member of Harvard faculty in 2013.[1]
He is a specialist in the political and social history of
Assyria in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, and particularly trade and the development of early markets. He has also worked on
absolute dating and the
chronology of the
Ancient Near East. He was a member of the team that used statistical methods to interrogate the records of ancient merchants found at
Kültepe/Kanesh near the modern Turkish city of
Kayseri to locate the probable location of ancient cities.[2] His research also focuses on the development of early markets, trans-regional interaction, early state power, and the functioning of royal courts.
He has written or edited multiple books including A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (2011).[1]
Selected publications
A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (2011).[3]
Ups and Downs at Kanesh (2012), co-authored with T. Hertel and M.T. Larsen.[2]
Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (2016). (Editor with
Kim Ryholt).[4]