Katharina Galor
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Katharina Galor is a German-born Israeli archaeologist specializing in ancient Israel
-Palestine
and Syria
, mainly focusing on the Roman and Byzantine periods. She currently teaches at Brown University
, affiliated with the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Program in Judaic Studies. Exploring the connections between the material record, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, she has worked on excavations within the Levant at Qumran
, Sepphoris, Tiberias, and Jerusalem. Her publications entail topics ranging from the archaeological context of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the successive stages of habitation in ancient Jerusalem, town planning, water installations, mosaics, as well as sacred, civic and domestic architecture.
She also currently serves as the President of the American Institute of Archaeology, Narragansett Society. Galor has also directed major conferences that have sparked much controversy among both the archaeological community and the wider world. Taken from a news article on the mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls
: "It was in the caves of Qumran in 1947 that two Bedouin shepherd boys discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. While the mysteries of the scrolls have been largely resolved, numerous mysteries surrounding the settlement of Qumran remain. A group of the world’s leading archaeological scholars will gather at Brown University Nov. 17-19, 2002, to examine those unanswered questions. The Center for Old World Archaeology and Art will host “Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” the first international conference on the settlement"http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-031.html. In 2006, Galor coordinated '"The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of Archaeological Research", an international conference in which both Palestinian and Israeli archaeologists participated, putting aside the politics of the region to discuss the eternal city of Jerusalemhttp://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/news/jerusalem.htmlhttp://www.brown.edu/Conference/Jerusalem_Perspective/index.htmlhttp://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-047.html.
Excavating at a number of sites in Italy, France, and Israel over the years, she currently co-directs the excavations at Apollonia-Arsuf, which is a joint Brown University-Tel Aviv University project. Her forthcoming book yet to be published, The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Early Beginnings through the Ottoman Period, serves as the first comprehensive survey of the material remains of the city of Jerusalem from the Bronze Age onward.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
-Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
and Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, mainly focusing on the Roman and Byzantine periods. She currently teaches at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, affiliated with the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Program in Judaic Studies. Exploring the connections between the material record, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, she has worked on excavations within the Levant at Qumran
Qumran
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank. It is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalia...
, Sepphoris, Tiberias, and Jerusalem. Her publications entail topics ranging from the archaeological context of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the successive stages of habitation in ancient Jerusalem, town planning, water installations, mosaics, as well as sacred, civic and domestic architecture.
She also currently serves as the President of the American Institute of Archaeology, Narragansett Society. Galor has also directed major conferences that have sparked much controversy among both the archaeological community and the wider world. Taken from a news article on the mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
: "It was in the caves of Qumran in 1947 that two Bedouin shepherd boys discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. While the mysteries of the scrolls have been largely resolved, numerous mysteries surrounding the settlement of Qumran remain. A group of the world’s leading archaeological scholars will gather at Brown University Nov. 17-19, 2002, to examine those unanswered questions. The Center for Old World Archaeology and Art will host “Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” the first international conference on the settlement"http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-031.html. In 2006, Galor coordinated '"The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of Archaeological Research", an international conference in which both Palestinian and Israeli archaeologists participated, putting aside the politics of the region to discuss the eternal city of Jerusalemhttp://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/news/jerusalem.htmlhttp://www.brown.edu/Conference/Jerusalem_Perspective/index.htmlhttp://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-047.html.
Excavating at a number of sites in Italy, France, and Israel over the years, she currently co-directs the excavations at Apollonia-Arsuf, which is a joint Brown University-Tel Aviv University project. Her forthcoming book yet to be published, The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Early Beginnings through the Ottoman Period, serves as the first comprehensive survey of the material remains of the city of Jerusalem from the Bronze Age onward.
Publications
- The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Early Beginnings through the Ottoman Period, co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn, Yale University Press (forthcoming, 2008)
- From Antioch to Alexandria: Studies in Domestic Architecture during the Roman and Byzantine Periods, (eds.) Galor, K. and Waliszewski, T., in Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (2007).
- Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of the Conference held at Brown University, November 17-19, 2002, (eds.) K. Galor, J.-B. Humbert, J. Zangenberg, Brill (2006).
- Crossing the Rift: Resources, Routes, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah, Proceedings of the Conference held at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, GA, November 19, 2003, (eds.) P. Bienkowski and K. Galor, in "British Academy Monographs in Archaeology", Oxford University Press (2006).
- "Qumran's Plastered Pools: A New Perspective", Science and Archaeology at Khirbet Qumran and 'Ain Feshkha, vol. II, (eds.) Humbert, J.-B. and Gunneweg, J., Presses Universitaires de Fribourg (2003) 169-198.
- "Wohnkultur im römisch-byzantinischen Palästina, in Zeichen aus Text und Stein. Studien auf dem Weg zu einer Archäeologie des Neuen Testaments",(eds.) Alkier, S. and Zangenberg, J., Tübingen/Basel, Tanz (2003) 183-208.
- "Domestic Architecture in Roman and Byzantine Galilee and Golan", in Near Eastern Archaeology 66:1-2 (2003) 44-57.
External links
- Faculty page at Brown University: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/people/facultypage.php?id=1106970115
- Excavations at Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/apollonia/
- "Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls" conference: http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/Katharina_Galor/Conference/program.pdf
- "The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of Archaeological Research", International conference held at Brown University: http://www.brown.edu/Conference/Jerusalem_Perspective/index.html
- "Exhibiting Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Jerusalem," an upcoming 2010 traveling exhibition on Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic Jerusalem: http://brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/grants/Jerusalem.html