Henry T. Wright

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title: "Henry T. Wright" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-anthropologists", "university-of-michigan-faculty", "university-of-michigan-alumni", "university-of-chicago-alumni", "macarthur-fellows", "living-people", "members-of-the-united-states-national-academy-of-sciences", "santa-fe-institute-people", "1943-births"] description: "American archeologist and educator (born 1943)" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_T._Wright" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American archeologist and educator (born 1943) ::

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Biography

Henry T. Wright was born March 29, 1943, in Annapolis, Maryland. His mother was Anne St. Clair Wright, an Annapolis historical preservationist. He earned a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan (1964), and a Ph.D. degree in Near Eastern archaeology from University of Chicago (1967).

Wright has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Madagascar, eastern North America and the American Midwest. From 1968 until 1978, he researched Mesopotamia in Iran.

Awards

• 2009 – Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
• 1994 – Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
• 1993 – MacArthur Fellows Program

Publications

• "Agent Based Modeling of Small-Scaled Societies", Dynamics in human and primate societies: agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes, Editors Timothy A. Kohler, George J. Gumerman, Oxford University Press US, 2000,
• "James Bennett Griffin", Biographical Memoirs, Volume 90, National Academies Press, 2009,

References

References

1. Daemmrich, JoAnna. (1993-09-20). "Anne St. Clair Wright, Annapolis preservationist".
2. "Henry T. Wright".
3. (2009). "Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement".
4. (1992). "Faculty News". University of Michigan (UM), College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA).
5. Teltsch, Kathleen. (1993-06-15). "A 1993 MacArthur Award Adds New Joy to a Singer's Hallelujahs". The New York Times.

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