Katharina Galor

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" [1] . 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 Jerusalem [2] [3] [4] . 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.

Israeli woman archaeologist Katharina Galor in the Hamat Tiberias synagogue, 2005 Katharina Galor (born 1966) is a German-born Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel-Palestine. She has been teaching at Brown University since 1998, where she is Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies. She was educated in Germany (Comenius Gymnasium), France ( Université d’Aix-Marseille ), Israel ( Hebrew University ) and the US (Brown University). She has held visiting teaching appointments at the École biblique et archéologique française and the Rothberg School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at Humboldt University in Berlin, and at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design in the US. She was a fellow at the W.F. Galor worked as a field archaeologist in France and the Levant between 1988 and 2006 with a scholarly focus on ethnicity, religious affiliation, and gender. Since 2006 her interests have shifted to encompass cultural heritage studies with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (Yale University Press, 2013; co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn ), Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017), and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020; co-authored with Sa’ed Atshan ). In 2018, Galor was awarded a three-year grant from the Leo Baeck Institute to complete her current book project on Jewish women.

Israeli woman archaeologist Katharina Galor in the Hamat Tiberias synagogue, 2005 Katharina Galor ( ; born 1966) is a German-born Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel-Palestine. She has been teaching at Brown University since 1998, where she is Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies. She was educated in Germany (Comenius Gymnasium), France ( Université d’Aix-Marseille ), Israel ( Hebrew University ) and the US (Brown University). She has held visiting teaching appointments at the École biblique et archéologique française and the Rothberg School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at Humboldt University in Berlin, and at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design in the US. She was a fellow at the W.F. She served as President of the American Institute of Archaeology , Narragansett Chapter. Galor worked as a field archaeologist in France and the Levant between 1988 and 2006 with a scholarly focus on ethnicity, religious affiliation, and gender. Sites she worked on included Apollonia–Arsuf . Since 2006 her interests have shifted to encompass cultural heritage studies with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (Yale University Press, 2013; co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn ), Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017), and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020; co-authored with Sa’ed Atshan ). In 2018, Galor was awarded a three-year grant from the Leo Baeck Institute to complete her current book project on Jewish women.

Israeli woman archaeologist Katharina Galor in the Hamat Tiberias synagogue, 2005 Katharina Galor ( Hebrew : קתרינה מ. גלאור ; born 1966) is a German-born Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel-Palestine. She has been teaching at Brown University since 1998, where she is Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies. She was educated in Germany (Comenius Gymnasium), France ( Université d’Aix-Marseille ), Israel ( Hebrew University ) and the US (Brown University). She has held visiting teaching appointments at the École biblique et archéologique française and the Rothberg School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at Humboldt University in Berlin, and at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design in the US. She was a fellow at the W.F. She served as President of the American Institute of Archaeology , Narragansett Chapter. Galor worked as a field archaeologist in France and the Levant between 1988 and 2006 with a scholarly focus on ethnicity, religious affiliation, and gender. Sites she worked on included Apollonia–Arsuf . Since 2006 her interests have shifted to encompass cultural heritage studies with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (Yale University Press, 2013; co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn ), Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017), and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020; co-authored with Sa’ed Atshan ). In 2018, Galor was awarded a three-year grant from the Leo Baeck Institute to complete her current book project on Jewish women.