Post-Doc, Peabody Museum
Associate of the Peabody Museum
About
Dr. Irene Good is an archaeologist of Central and Western Asia and the Indo-Iranian borderlands. Good received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and since 2001 has been an Associate of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Her specific research interests concern cloth in all its aspects, from labour, technology and materials, to social uses, semiotics, iconography and the symbolic uses of cloth as a major component of material culture. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Good embarked on a major study entitled A Social Archaeology of Textiles, and is now completing a book entitled Cloth and Carpet in Early Inner Asia to be published through Brill’s Inner Asia Series. She has curated important textile collections as Hrdy Visiting Curator at the Peabody Museum and has developed novel application of biochemical techniques to the study of severely degraded archaeological fibers. Dr. Good’s current research is focused on the later Bronze period of Western China, Afghanistan and the Indo-Iranian borderlands. She is currently directing a new archaeological survey in southern Tajikistan.
Contact Information
Peabody Museum, FAS
Harvard Unniversity
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
