Stein received a B.A. from Yale University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1990, he was appointed an assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, and in 2001 became a full professor at the same department. In 2002, he moved to the University of Chicago.
From 2008 to 2010, he jointly directed the Joint Syrian-American Archaeological Research Project at Tell Zeidan of the Ubaid culture.[2][3][4] In 2017, Stein was appointed Senior Advisor to the Provost for Cultural Heritage at the University of Chicago. Since 2013, Stein has directed the Surezha Project at Girdi Surezha spanning the Halaf to Late Chalcolithic cultures.
Publications
Rethinking World Systems - Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia, Tucson: University of Arizona, 1999. ISBN0-8165-2009-7
The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives. School of American Research Press, 2005.
^Stein, Gil J. (2009). "Tell Zeidan"(PDF). 2008–2009 Annual Report of The Oriental Institute. University of Chicago. pp. 126–137. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
^Stein, Gil J. (2010). "Tell Zeidan"(PDF). 2009–2010 Annual Report of The Oriental Institute. University of Chicago. pp. 105–118. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
