Dr COBB, Peter J.

Dr COBB, Peter J.

Joint Appointment with the School of Humanities in the Faculty of Arts
Assistant Professor
Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences

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Qualification
PhD in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (University of Pennsylvania)
MSIS (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
BA (Dartmouth College)
Email
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Phone
(852) 2859 2532
Location
Room 210, Runme Shaw Building


Areas
Archaeology, Classical/Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History
Ceramics Analysis
Digital Humanities, Information Sciences
Research Expertise
Culture and Cultural Studies
Data Sciences and Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning
Information Science and Management
Technology-enhanced Learning
Prospective PhD/ EdD/ MPhil Applications
?I am available to supervise PhD/EdD/MPhil students and would welcome enquiries for supervision.
Links
Archaeology Project Homepage
Faculty of Arts Homepage

Awards
HKU Early Career Teaching Award (2021)
Faculty of Education Early Career Teaching Award (2021)


Projects
Dr Cobb is a field archaeologist, a ceramics specialist, and a digital humanist. Archaeology studies human life, communications, and development through the material remains of the past. Dr Cobbleads fieldwork in Southwest Asia (the Ancient Near East) each summer and also participates in a project in Laos. His information science research engages withthe recording and analysis of multi-modal data about the past, including 3d spatial and morphologicalmodeling.
I am looking for PhD and MPhilstudents and Post-doctoral researchersto join our research project in digital archaeologyand our fieldwork - particularly students with computer programming backgrounds but also anyone interested in studying the past and learning digital methods.


Publications
Articles:
Digital Humanities Degrees and Supplemental Credentials in Information Schools (iSchools) (2021), Education for Information,http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/EFI-200452
Digital Humanities in the iSchool (2021, 2nd/co-corresponding author), Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology,http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24535
Centimeter-Level Recording for All: Field Experimentation with New, Affordable Geolocation Technology (2019),Advances in Archaeological Practice,https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2019.21
Mapping Historical Texts in the Classroom: The Anatolian Travelers Project (2019),Cartographic Perspectives,https://doi.org/10.14714/CP93.1488
Collaborative Approaches to Archaeology Programming and the Increase of Digital Literacy Among Archaeology Students (2019),Open Archaeology,https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0010
Virtual Desktops: A Practical Solution for Data Collaboration in Archaeology (2017), SAA Archaeological Record, http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=455593&ver=html5&p=21
Conference Proceedings:
Sharing the Past: the Library as Digital Co-design Space for Intergenerational Heritage Preservation (2021), Joint Conference on Digital Libraries(JCDL), https://dl.acm.org/conference/jcdl
RASCAL: Robotic Arm for Sherds and Ceramics Automated Locomotion (2021, 3rd author),IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), https://sites.temple.edu/trail/files/2021/03/WangLutzCobbDamesICRA2021.pdf


Professional Community Services
Digital Reviews Editor,Advances in Archaeological Practice
Associate Editor,Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia (ARWA)
iSchools Digital Humanities Curriculum Committee Member