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John Joseph Shea

Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University

John Joseph Shea (born in 1960 in Hamilton, Massachusetts) is an American archeologist and paleoanthropologist. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University in New York since 1992. Shea graduated Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in 1978. He earned his BA from Boston University in 1982 (double major, Archaeology and Anthropology) and his Ph.D. from Harvard (Anthropology) in 1991. Shea has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Belize, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. He is married to Patricia L. Crawford and resides in Stony Brook, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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