Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
About
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre is Professor of Distinction and President's Teaching Scholar in Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She focuses on cultural interactions in Anatolia, with an emphasis on the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in Anatolia. She received her AB in 1991 from Harvard University and her PhD in 1997 from the University of Michigan. Dusinberre has received twelve University of Colorado teaching awards and been awarded the Wiseman Award by the Archaeological Institute of America for her 2013 publication, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia. In 2018 she was named Distinguished Research Lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder. Most recently, her work has focused on the seal impressions on the Persepolis Fortification Archive and on the archaeological site of Gordion, capital of ancient Phrygia, in Turkey.
