J. P. Mallory

J. P. Mallory
J. P. Mallory
Born	James Patrick Mallory; October 25, 1945 (age 79); San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	Occidental College; University of California, Los Angeles;
Doctoral advisor	Marija Gimbutas
Influences	Edgar C. Polomé
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology; Linguistics;
Sub-discipline	Indo-European studies
Institutions	Queen's University Belfast;
Main interests	Indo-European migrations
Notable works	In Search of the Indo-Europeans (1989); Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (1997);
Notable ideas	Kurgan hypothesis

James Patrick Mallory (born October 25, 1945) is an American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is an emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast;^[1] a member of the Royal Irish Academy,^[2] and the former editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies^[3] and Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group (Belfast).^[1]

Career

J. P. Mallory was born in San Bernardino, California on October 25, 1945, the son of Clyde Francis and Rosemarie Mallory.^[4] Mallory received his A.B. in History from Occidental College in California in 1967,^[2] then served three years in the US Army as a military police sergeant. He received his Ph.D. in Indo-European studies from UCLA in 1975 under the supervision of Marija Gimbutas.^[5]^[2] Together with Gimbutas, Edgar C. Polomé and other Indo-Europeanists, Mallory was involved in the founding of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.^[6]

Mallory, J. P. (1989). In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27616-1.
Mallory, J. P.; T. Jesus (1991). The First Testament. Jerusalem: Dufour Editions. ISBN 0-85389-353-5.
Mallory, J. P.; Victor H. Mair (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05101-1.
Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199287910.
Mallory, J. P. (2013). The Origins of the Irish. London–New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500051757.
Mallory, J.P. (2016). In search of the Irish dreamtime : archaeology & early Irish literature. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500051849.

J. P. Mallory & Brian M. Fagan, eds. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn. ISBN 1-884964-98-2.

^ ^a ^b Prof. Mallory's Academic Homepage at QUB
^ ^a ^b ^c Royal Irish Academy Membership entry
^ Journal of Indo-European Studies
^ Gale. February 21, 2007.
^ J.P. Mallory, "The Indo-European Homeland Problem: The Logic of the Inquiry" Ph.D. dissertation - UCLA. Ann Arbor (Mass): Xerox Microfilms, 1975.
^ Pearson, Robert (2000). "In Memoriam". Journal of Indo-European Studies. 28 (1): 1–2. ProQuest 206746250. Retrieved 7 September 2020.

"James Patrick Mallory". Contemporary Authors. Gale. 21 February 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2020.