Ann Perkins (historian)
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| Born | April 18, 1915 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | May 7, 2006 (aged 91) Urbana, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1954) |
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| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | The Comparative Stratigraphy of Prehistoric Mesopotamia (1940) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henri Frankfort |
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Ann Louise Perkins (April 18, 1915 – May 7, 2006) was an American archaeologist and art historian. She began her career as a graduate and research assistant at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, then taught at Yale University and became a full professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After publishing her 1949 book The Comparative Archeology of Early Mesopotamia, she switched from Near Eastern archaeology to classical era art after working with the excavations of the ancient city of Dura-Europos, and then published the 1973 book The Art of Dura-Europos.