Overview

Jana Mokrišová‘s research focuses on ancient mobility and connectivity in western Anatolia and Greece in the long term, from the Late Bronze Age to the Classical period. She is interested in understanding how mobility and interaction contributed to identity formation in a particularly turbulent period that witnessed the emergence of large Iron Age Anatolian polities (like the Lydian kingdom) as well as more fragmented city states in Greece and along the Anatolian littoral.

Her recent research develops regional approaches to land-based movement (based on her work with the Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World Project, University of Vienna) and investigates issues of technological transfer with a particular focus on the role of iron (as part of Project Sideros: Early Iron Technology in the Aegean, Charles University Prague).  

Jana holds a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. Before moving to Brown, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge and taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Sheffield. While Jana's primary field research is in western Türkiye, she was a part of excavation and survey projects in Greece, Italy, the Republic of Georgia, and Bulgaria. 

Brown Affiliations

• Archaeology and the Ancient World
• Classics

Research Areas