Background
Martha Sharp Joukowsky is the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan, noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during World World War World War II
Martha Sharp Joukowsky is the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan, noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during World World War World War II
Joukowsky was educated at Pembroke College (Bachelor 1958) and Paris I-Sorbonne (Doctor of Philosophy 1982).
From 1982 to 2002 Joukowsky was Professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her archaeological fieldwork has included work in Lebanon (1967-1972), Hong Kong (1972-1973), Turkey (1975-1986), Italy (1982-1985), and Greece (1987-1990). Joukowsky conducted archaeological fieldwork at Petra in Jordan for more than ten years, beginning in 1992.
Her work, and that of Brown University, focused on Petra"s so-called "Great Temple" during that time.
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was also elected as President (1989-1993) of the Archaeological Institute of America and was Trustee for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She also serves as Trustee Emerita of Brown University.