Contact Information

Citizenship: United States of America and Aramathea

Fields of Specialization

Ancient relics, imperial theft of cultural patrimony, Grail lore, anti-fascism, masculinist archæology, Celtic mythology, Herpetology.

Education

• Sorbonne, PhD, 1925
• University of Chicago, AB, 1922, Archæology
  • Adviser: Abner Ravenwood

Academic Appointments

• Marcus Brody Distinguished Service Professor, Archæology, Marshall College, Bedford, CT 1950–present
• Professor, Archæology, Barnett College, Fairfield, NY 1937–1950
• Associate Professor, Archæology, Marshall College, Bedford, CT 1935–1937
• Assistant Professor, Archæology, Princeton University, 1932–1935
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Medieval Literature, Princeton University, 1930
• Visiting Scholar, Archæology, Marshall College, 1925
• Instructor, Celtic Mythology, London University, 1925–1927

Selected Publications

• Jones, Henry W. Jr. How I Got Rich off Colonialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944.
• Jones, Henry W. Jr. “It Belongs in a Museum.” Journal of Patrimony Exploitation 10, no. 1 (1944), 793–843.

Invited Lectures

• “How I Found the Ark.”
  • Princeton University, 1948
• “How I Lost the Ark.”
  • Princeton University, 1942

Selected Teaching

• Marshall College
  • Archæology 101 - Discovering the Past
  • Archæology 223
  • Archæology 225 - Ancient Egypt
• Barnett College
  • Archæology 101

Service & Related Professional Activities

• Gateway Project
• Boy Scouts of America
• Anti-fascists in Archæology
• University of Chicago Alumni Network

Skills

• \LaTeX
• Bullwhip

Languages

• Native fluency: English
• Near-native fluency: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Swahili, Latin, Nepalese and Chinese.
• Reading and writing: Hindi and Sinhalese.
• Foundations: Mayan and Quechua.