Lynne Sullivan (born December 25, 1952) is an American archaeologist and former Curator of Archaeology for the Frank H.
McClung Museum located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, Tennessee.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee (undergraduate) and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (Masters and PhD), Sullivan is renowned for her research and publications on subjects such as Southeastern United States prehistory, Mississippian chiefdoms, mortuary analysis, and archaeological curation.
She has been a major contributor to the feminist/gender archaeology movement through her studies in social inequality, gender roles, and the historic significance of women in the development of modern archaeology.