First posted 2/1/10. Updated 3/2/11 with the addition of the Mesopotamian Directory 2011 and the removal of the International Directory of Hittitologists and Anatolianists (has that reappeared somewhere? I can't find it). Updated 5/19/11 with the addition of the Directory of Ancient Historians in the United States and Canada Updated (links checked and fixed, AMESA added, 16 October 2013. Updated 16 December 2014]
Are there other important directories I'm missing? What do you use to find people and places in your own disciplines? Reply in the comments below if you can.
- Alte Geschichte in Deutschland — Ancient History in Germany
- AMESA: Directory of Scholars of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- Association for Coroplastic Studies Membership
- Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology
- The British Egyptological Society Directory (BES)
- Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum (CPhCl)
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI): Who's Who in Cuneiform Studies
- Curricula Vitae of Colleagues in Ancient Near East Studies
- Directory of Ancient Historians in the United States and Canada
- Directory of Institutions and Scholars Involved in Demotic Studies
- Directory of North American Egyptologists
- IDAP - International Directory Aegean Prehistorians
- Informationen deutschsprachiger Institutionen der Ägyptologie
- International association of Assyriology. Addresses in Assyriology
- The International Directory of Middle East Scholars
- Membres de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres depuis 1663
- Mesopotamian Directory 2011
Are there other important directories I'm missing? What do you use to find people and places in your own disciplines? Reply in the comments below if you can.