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Jean MacIntosh Turfa
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<p>Jean MacIntosh Turfa (born 1947 in <a href="/facts/Philadelphia%2c_Pennsylvania/2bFFCCTU">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>) is an American archaeologist and authority on the <a href="/facts/Etruscan_civilization/yw3dmLgd">Etruscan civilization</a>. </p><p>Jean MacIntosh graduated from Abington High School in Philadelphia and then earned her bachelor's degree at <a href="/facts/Gwynedd_Mercy_College/4xCXbuqe">Gwynedd Mercy College</a>. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at <a href="/facts/Bryn_Mawr_College/KwWWMNP7">Bryn Mawr College</a> in 1974. </p><p>Turfa has taught at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Liverpool/c9yBULDJ">University of Liverpool</a>, the <a href="/facts/University_of_Illinois_at_Chicago/YcKYWzyp">University of Illinois at Chicago</a>, the <a href="/facts/University_of_Chicago/z6zRMUmV">University of Chicago</a>, <a href="/facts/Loyola_University_Chicago/Dfq5IapC">Loyola University Chicago</a>, <a href="/facts/Drexel_University/t1CjDDmE">Drexel University</a>, <a href="/facts/Dickinson_College/QLmG7YJv">Dickinson College</a>, <a href="/facts/Bryn_Mawr_College/KwWWMNP7">Bryn Mawr College</a>, <a href="/facts/St._Joseph%2527s_University/y4BmTVW3">St. Joseph's University</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Pennsylvania/LBBBULox">University of Pennsylvania</a>. </p><p>She has participated in archaeological excavation campaigns in the United States, the United Kingdom, in Italy at <a href="/facts/Poggio_Civitate/2ygQJkQ7">Poggio Civitate</a> (Murlo), and at <a href="/facts/Ancient_Corinth/8g6C4eQ0">Corinth</a> in Greece. She has been engaged in research and museum-based projects at the <a href="/facts/Manchester_Museum/BPbotAxh">Manchester Museum</a>, the <a href="/facts/Liverpool_Museum/lLMRp4y4">Liverpool Museum</a>, the <a href="/facts/British_Museum/mq5LadWV">British Museum</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Pennsylvania_Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Anthropology/6BQ9NJTm">University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology</a>. </p><p>She is a member of the US section of the <a href="/facts/Istituto_Nazionale_di_Studi_Etruschi_ed_Italici/tE61tF6j">Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici</a>. </p>