Andrew Koh

Andrew Koh is an interdisciplinary scientist with a strong interest in ancient pharmacology & medicine, ancient innovation & technology, and modern applications of antiquity. His research focuses on cross-cultural interactions, social complexity, and ecologies of the past through the lens of ancient technology, pharmacopeia, and craft. After completing his dissertation as an exchange scholar at Stanford University, he earned his doctorate in archaeology with a chemistry and ancient history focus at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Koh is currently Museum Scientist for the Yale Peabody Museum and heads the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program (https://ancientpharmacology.com). He is also PI of the Southern Phokis Regional Project (https://kastrouli.com) in Greece, which includes field projects at the Mycenaean citadels of Antikyra-Steno (Homeric Kyparissos) and Desfina-Kastrouli (Homeric Anemoreia). He is finishing a monograph for Cambridge University Press called Luxury Trade & Social Complexity in the Ancient Mediterranean and three book projects for Penn Museum Press related to the museum's famed Minoan collection excavated by Harriet Boyd Hawes and New Kingdom Tomb 254 from Sedment, Egypt excavated by Flinders Petrie. Most recently, he started a book project with Dr. Trevor Luke called Plants and Power in the Ancient Mediterranean, under contract with Yale University Press.