Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Education
B.A. - Open University, History, 2006
M.A. - Tel Aviv University, Jewish History, 2009
Master Thesis: Rosette Stamped Jar Handles from the Kingdom of Judah (Supervisors: Prof. Nadav Na'aman and Prof. Oded Lipschits)
Ph.D. - Tel Aviv University, Archaeology, 2015
Name of doctoral dissertation: Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age: Empire, Elite, and Colonial Encounters (Supervisors: Prof. Nadav Na'aman and Prof. Oded Lipschits)
Current Projects
- Tel Hadid Archaeological Project
- Final Publication of Salvage Excavations at Tel Hadid
- Stamp-seals from the Southern Levant (Co-directors: Prof. Christoph Uehlinger, Prof. Silvia Schroer, and Prof. Stefan Münger)
- Final Publication of the Yohanan Aharoni Excavations at Tel Arad (Co-directors: Prof. Ze'ev Herzog and Ms. Lily Singer-Avitz)
Academic and Professional Awards
Awards
2019 Yad Yitzhaq Ben-Zvi “Ish Shalom” Award for The Shadow of Egypt: Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze and the early Iron Age, Jerusalem 2018.
Grants
2019 Swiss National Sciences Fund—Sinergia Project CRSII5_186426: “Stamp seals from the Southern Levant: A Multi-faceted Prism for Studying entangled Histories in an Interdisciplinary Perspective” (co-directed by Prof. Christoph Uehlinger, Prof. Silvia Schroer, and Prof. Stefan Münger)
Fellowships
2019 Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers
2015 Swiss Government Excellence Program
PhD Students
Since 2018. Deborah Aybinderow: Economy and Society in the Shephelah in the Iron Age II in light of the Olive Oil Industry in the Sorek Valley (Co-supervisor: Prof. Oded Lipschits)
Since 2020 Noa Ranzer: Stamp-seals during the Iron Age (Co-supervisors: Prof. Yuval Gadot and Prof. Christoph Uehlinger, UZH)
MA Students
2018–2020 Noa Rantzer: Biography of Scarabs: Production, Distribution and Consumption of Scarabs in the Yarkon Basin during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages (Co-Supervisor: Prof. Yuval Gadot); submitted May 2020
Since 2018 Lior Serban: The Shephelah between the Iron IIC and the Persian period – Continuity and Change in Settlement Pattern, Economic Activity and Administration (Co-Supervisor: Prof. Oded Lipschits)
2019–2020 Ruthy Lewis: The Glass Assemblage at Tel Hadid: An Exploration and Illumination of the Byzantine Settlement (co-Supervisor: Dr Ruth Jackson-Tal); submitted December 2020
Since 2020 Marissa Tsiao: Fibulae of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age: Chronology, Inter-regional Connectivity, and Performance
Since 2020 Jingchao Chen: Tracing Household Ingredients in Iron Age IIC Tel Hadid and Tel Bet-Shemesh: A Pilot Study with Organic Residue Analysis on Pottery Assemblages (Co-Supervisor: Prof. Cynthianne Spiteri)
Since 2020 Xiaoshuai Yuan: Contextual Analysis of Seals of Iron Age IIB Judah (Co-Supervisor: Prof. Oded Lipschits)