Members

What does it mean to be a member of American Archaeology Abroad?

Whether you are an individual member or an affiliated excavation, you are committed to the advancement of archaeological scholarship and the education of students and the public about the ancient past and archaeology's role in its discovery.

Board of Directors


Dr. Matthew J. Adams, President
Bucknell University
Director, Jezreel Valley Regional Project

Matthew J. Adams received his PhD in History from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007, specializing in Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology, and is now a lecturer in the Classics Department at Bucknell University. He has broad spatial and temporal interests in the ancient world, and has more than 20 seasons of excavation experience at sites in Egypt and Israel. His current research project is the Jezreel Valley Regional Project. He is also a member of the Penn State Mendes Excavations in Egypt and the Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition.


Dr. Jonathan K. David, Vice President
Scholarships Coordinator
Gettysburg College
Assistant Director, Jezreel Valley Regional Project

Jonathan David is currently a professor of Classics at Gettysburg College, and he has taught previously at Penn State University and California State University, Stanislaus. He specializes in the history and archaeology of ancient Greece, but his particular interests involve earliest historiography and the interconnections between the Graeco-Roman world and the Near East. He has been a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, as well as a Mellon Foundation research fellow, and he is now involved with two ongoing excavations in Israel: the Jezreel Valley Regional Project and Tel Aviv University's Megiddo Expedition.


 
Mary K. Faulkner, Treasurer
 The Pennsylvania State University










Margaret E. Cohen, Secretary
The Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Director, Jezreel Valley Regional Project

Though Margaret Cohen has been excavating at sites in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan for over a decade, her primary area of expertise is Hebrew Bible and the history of biblical Israel. Currently completing her PhD, she has taught a variety of courses in archaeology, history and Hebrew language at Penn State University and Lycoming College. She was the recipient of a National Foundation for Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship and, most recently, a Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project Grant from the Association for Jewish Studies. In addition to her graduate studies and archaeological work, Margaret is also active in serving the State College Jewish community and has sat on the local synagogue board and been an educator at the State College JCC.

Members


Dr. Aaron A. Burke
UCLA
Co-director, The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project
burke@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/people/faculty/burke/
www.nelc.ucla.edu/jaffa
www.antiquities.org.il/jaffa






Dr. Kevin Daly
Bucknell University
Co-director, The Ismenion in Thebes, Greece, Excavations

Kevin Daly received his PhD from Harvard University in Classical philology and archaeology. As a philologist, he specializes in epigraphy and historiography. He also has particular interest in prose style, Caesar, and military history. As a field archaeologist, Professor Daly serves as Senior Supervisor at the Athenian Agora Excavations where he has worked for fifteen years.


Dr. Pamela Gaber
Lycoming College
Director, Lycoming College Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus

Dr. Pamela Gaber is a Professor of Archaeology and Religion at Lycoming College and a world-renowned expert in sculpture typology and pottery chronology. She earned a Ph.D. in ancient art and archaeology from Harvard University after which she spent time on the faculties of the University of New Hampshire and University of Arizona before joining Lycoming. Gaber is the author of several publications, most recently the volume Idalion III: Excavations on the Terrace of the East Acropolis and a children's book, Daily Life in Bible Times: What Archaeology Tells Us. In 2008 she published an article, "The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of a City Kingdom," in Near Eastern Archaeology vol. 71 nos. 1-2 March-June 2008. This article, whose focus is our changing understanding of history, has been picked up by the Encyclopedia Brittanica Online. Dr. Gaber began her excavating career in Israel before moving to Cyprus. She has been the director of the Expedition to Idalion excavations and field school—under the sponsorship of various universities—since 1984.


Dr. Thomas Guderjan
University of Texas at Tyler
Director, Blue Creek Archaeological Project
President, Maya Research Program
mrpinquiries@gmail.com

Dr. Thomas Guderjan is the President of the Maya Research Program, Director of the Blue Creek Archaeological Project and a faculty member at the University of Texas at Tyler. His book, The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction and Power at Blue Creek, Belize. University of Alabama Press (2007), summarizes much of the work done at Blue Creek over the past two decades.


Colleen Hanratty
Southern Methodist University
http://www.mayaresarchprogram.org

Colleen Hanratty is a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University. She has worked with the non-profit organization, the Maya Research Program, for the past 16 years and is a member of the Board of Directors. She has conducted archaeological research in the southeastern and southwestern USA, Mexico, Peru and Belize. Her doctoral research is on the collapse and abandonment of Blue Creek, Belize.




Robert S. Homsher
San Francisco State University, Department of Anthropology
rhomsher.edu@gmail.com

Robert received his Ph.D. in 2012 from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, specializing in Levantine archaeology. He is currently a visiting lecturer in the Anthropology department at San Francisco State University, where he teaches archaeological methods and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. His primary research interests lie in the Bronze and Iron ages throughout the Levant and adjacent regions, and he relies heavily on geoarchaeological research methods. He has many seasons of excavation experience at sites in Israel, Jordan and Iraq. In addition to the JVRP, he is involved in the ongoing Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition.


Dr. Stephanie Larson
Bucknell University
Co-director, The Ismenion in Thebes, Greece, Excavations

Professor Larson received her Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and her B.A. in Classics and Latin from the University of Minnesota in 1992. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Bucknell University. She specializes in culture and identities of the Archaic and Classical periods in Greece and considers herself both a cultural historian and a philologist. Larson has published articles on Homer, Herodotus, Sappho, religious identity, Greek epigraphy, and the history of federal states in ancient Greece. Her book, Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods, was published as volume 197 of the Historia Einzelschriften by Franz Steiner Press in Stuttgart, Germany. It has received positive reviews in both England and Germany.


Dr. Robert Littman
University of Hawai'i
Co-director, The Tell Timai Project





Adam Prins
Jezreel Valley Regional Project
Chief Technology Officer, American Archaeology Abroad
adam.prins@gmail.com

Adam Prins received his MA in the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East from University College London. He has worked with archaeological projects and museums in Israel, Egypt, Cyprus and the United States and is a staff member of both the Jezreel Valley Regional Project and the Tel Megiddo Expedition. His current research involves developing new technologies for use in archaeology, emphasizing new applications for LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and three-dimensional modeling. He has developed and deployed practical workflows for photogrammetric and three-dimensional imaging of archaeological sites, and works to integrate these and other new technologies into traditional archaeological documentation.


Dr. Donald B. Redford
The Pennsylvania State University
Director, The Mendes Excavations
mendes34@comcast.net

Dr. Donald B. Redford, the director of the Mendes Excavations, is a professor in the Dept. of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University. He is an eminent Egyptologist and biblical scholar and is the author of many books and numerous articles, including his latest publication, The City of the Ram-Man: The Story of Ancient Mendes. He has been featured often in series and documentaries on Ancient Egypt and the Bible on A&E, The History Channel, and German Television. 


Dr. Susan Redford
The Pennsylvania State University
Director, ATP's Theban Tomb Survey
parennefer@yahoo.com

Dr. Susan Redford, the director of ATP’s Theban Tomb Survey, is a faculty lecturer in the Dept. of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of numerous articles, and The Harem Conspiracy: The Murder of Ramesses III. She has been featured in documentaries produced by National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.



Dr. Jay Silverstein
University of Hawai'i
Co-director, Tell Timai Project








Dr. James Riley Strange
Samford University
Director, The Excavations at Shikhin, Israel
jrstrang@samford.eduWebpage: http://howard.samford.edu/religion/bio.aspx?id=2147485602

James Riley Strange is Assistant Professor of religion at Samford University, where he teaches courses in New Testament and related literature, Greco-Roman religions, and archaeology. He directs the Excavations at Shikhin in the Lower Galilee of Israel. A member of Phi Kappa Phi, he received his Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity from Emory University. 

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