Gojko Barjamovic received his training at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has taught for more than a decade at Harvard University prior to joining Yale in 2024. He is a specialist in the economic and social history of Assyria in the 2nd millennium BCE and also works on ancient foodways (including the Yale Babylonian Recipes), human aDNA, absolute chronology, and ancient metal. He works with colleagues in the field of Economics on early markets and the trans-regional convergence of prices.