Leslie Schramer

Leslie Schramer became interested in ancient civilizations during her high school years, when a military posting took her family to Naples, Italy. She graduated from the University of Missouri in 1999 with a double major in Classical archaeology and German, and in 2005 she earned her MA in Mesopotamian archaeology at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. From 2005 to 2017 she was an editor in the Publications Department of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, specializing in the production of scholarly volumes about the history, languages, and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Over the years, Leslie has participated in a number of archaeological excavations covering a wide range of cultures and time periods, including sites in Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Cyprus. She is thrilled to now be at the Kelsey, where she can combine her experiences as both an editor and a field archaeologist in the production of books that bring to light the museum’s collections and fieldwork projects.