Jerry Sabloff

Who is Jerry Sabloff?

Jeremy "Jerry" Arac Sabloff is an American anthropologist and president of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sabloff is an expert on ancient Maya civilization and pre-industrial urbanism. His academic interests have included settlement pattern studies, archaeological theory and method, the history of archaeology, the relevance of archaeology in the modern world, complexity theory, and trans-disciplinary science.

Sabloff received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in 1969 from Harvard, where his doctoral supervisor was archaeologist Gordon Willey.

Prior to coming to the Santa Fe Institute, Sabloff was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, as well as the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and interim director of the museum. He also has taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Sabloff is an outspoken proponent of science communication.