Prof. (em.) Dr. John F. Cherry

John F. Cherry is Joukowsky Family Emeritus Professor of Archaeology & the Ancient World and Emeritus Professor of Classics at Brown University, having previously taught at the University of Michigan (1993–2005) and the University of Cambridge (1980–1993). His main research interests include island archaeology, Aegean and wider Mediterranean prehistory, Caribbean archaeology, regional survey, and lithic studies. He has been involved in fieldwork in Greece, the Caribbean, the UK, USA, Italy, and Armenia.

Since 2010 he has co-directed the Survey and Landscape Archaeology in Montserrat project in the eastern Caribbean and is concurrently a senior member of the Small Cycladic Islands Project in Greece. His most recent books include Archaeology for the People (with Felipe Rojas, 2015), An Archaeological History of Montserrat in the West Indies (with Krysta Ryzewski, 2020), and Human Dispersal, Human Evolution, and the Sea: The Palaeolithic Seafaring Debate (with Thomas P. Leppard, 2025). He was co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology from 1990 until 2023.