Jeremy A. Sabloff(B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969) is The Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (since 1994) and the University Museum Term Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Curator of Mesoamerican Archaeology at the Museum.

He has previously taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was Chair of the Department), and the University of Pittsburgh (where he was also Chair) and was an Overseas Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. He is also a past President of the Society for American Archaeology, a past Chair of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, past Editor of American Antiquity, and currently sits on a number of scholarly editorial boards, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Latin American Antiquity, Journal of Anthropological Research, and Archaeology Magazine. He currently is Chair of the Smithsonian Council and is President of the Kolb Foundation. He is member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1994), the American Philosophical Society (elected in 1996), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 1999). Furthermore, he is a member of numerous scientific societies and Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Sabloff is the author of Excavation at Seibal: Ceramics (1975), The Cities of Ancient Mexico (1989, 2nd ed., 1997), and The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya (1990) and the co-author of A History of American Archaeology (1974, 2nd ed., 1980, 3rd ed., 1993), A Reconnaissance of Cancuen, Peten, Guatemala (1978), Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica (1979; 2nd ed., 1995), Cozumel: Late Maya Settlement Patterns (1984), and The Ancient Maya City of Sayil (1991). He also has edited or co-edited eleven books and numerous articles and chapters on his principal interests: archaeological theory and method, the history of archaeology, and ancient Maya civilization.

He is internationally known for his research and writings on ancient Maya civilization. He has undertaken archaeological field research in both Mexico and Guatemala and most recently co-directed a five-year project (supported by the National Science Foundation), which examined the growth of the urban settlement at the Precolumbian Maya city of Sayil in Yucatan. His other scholarly interests include the history of archaeology, archaeological theory and method, ancient cities, and settlement pattern studies.