Ian Simpson
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. I.R. Simpson
Research
Ian R Simpson is Assistant Professor in Heritage Practices in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. His work examines heritage practices in society from critical and anthropological perspectives, including the demands and expectations of heritage in environmental, community and memory projects. His research also investigates relationships between religion, environment, materiality and market exchange in early Islamic and medieval history, based on field research in Jordan and the Arab Gulf States.
Ian Simpson is also a member of the Centre for Global Heritage and Development.
Curriculum vitae
PhD Anthropology, Stanford University (2016)
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archaeological Heritage
- Heritage of Indigenous Peoples
- Simpson I.R. (2023), Preliminary Report for Department of Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: A Report on Archaeological Excavation and Conservation of Marketplace Shops on the Cardo Opposite the Early Mosque in Jarash, June-July 2023. Leiden: Leiden University.
- Simpson I.R. (2021), The market that binds us: religious exchange in medieval Syria-Palestine. In: Oldenburg S. & Bezio K.M.S. (Eds.), Religion and the medieval and early modern global marketplace. New York: Routledge. 32-53.
- Simpson & I.R. (2019), Framings of Capitalism and the Archaeology of Sugar in the Islamic Mediterranean, Historical Archaeology 53: 591-610.
- Simpson & I.R. (2019), Contradictions of citizenship and environmental politics in the Arabian littoral, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region 16(1): 79-99.