People

The gradual compilation of this page is working to provide a comprehensive alphabetic listing of scholars and researchers working within the fields of the Ancient Near East and Egypt. The contact details and email addresses of most individuals can be found amongst their department or personal page listings.

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Surnames in English alphabetical order:

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Ahituv, Shmuel
Professor, Department of Bible and Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
department page :

Alizadeh, Abbas
Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (Iranian archaeology)
Science Magazine article :

Altman, Amnon
Associated Professor, Departments of History and Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
department page :

Artzi, Pinhas
Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Department of General History and American Studies, Bar-Ilan University
department page :

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Bahrani, Zainab
Edith Porada Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Columbia University
department page :

Baines, John
Professor of Egyptology, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
department page :

Barahona, Agustín
Professor, Drnº Historia y Ciencias de la Musica, Esp. Egipto y Proximo Oriente Antiguos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
personal page :

Bard, Kathryn
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Boston University
department page :

Barta, Miroslav
Czech Institute of Egyptology
department page :

Beaulieu, Paul-Alain
Associate Professor of Assyriology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
department page :

Bell, Lanny
Adjunct Professor of Egyptology, Brown University
department page :

Berlin, Andrea
Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
department page :

Betts, Alison
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney
department page 1 : publications

Bianchi, Alberto (1920-2003)
Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, Uruguayan Institute of Egyptology
publications :

Bietak, Manfred
Professor der Ägyptologie an der Universität Wien, Leiter des österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Kairo
Professor of Egyptology, University of Vienna; Director, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Cairo
department page :

Black, Jeremy
Lecturer in Akkadian, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
department page :

Bowen, Gillian
Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
department page :

Braidwood, Robert (1907-2003) and Linda (1909-2003)
Professor Emeritus, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Obituaries: NY Times – Chicago Tribune

Brand, Peter J.
Assistant Professor of Ancient History & Egyptology, Department of History, University of Memphis
department page :

Brody, Aaron
Assistant Professor of Bible and Archaeology, Director of the Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union
faculty page :

Bryan, Betsy
Professor, Alexander Badawy Chair in Egyptian Art and Archaeology, John Hopkins University
department page :

Buccellati, Giorgio
Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, Director Urkesh Excavations
department web page :

Bunimowitz, Shlomo
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv
department page :

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Castillos, Juan José
Professor of Egyptology, Uruguayan Institute of Egyptology
publications :

Chesson, Meredith
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
department page : alternative website

Chubb, Mary (1903-2003)
Writer, Archaeologist
obituary (the Times)

Cline, Eric H.
Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology, Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
department page :

Clines, David
Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield
department page : personal webpage

Collier, Mark A.
Lecturer, School of Archaeology, Classics & Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool (Egyptology)
department page :

Cooper, Elizabeth N.
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, University of British Columbia
department page :

Cooper, Jerrold S.
Professor in Semitic Languages: Assyriology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, John Hopkins University
department page :

Cowie, Paul James
Editor, Ancient Near East .net
about :

Crawford, Harriet

Reader, Institute of Archaeology London; Director, British Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait
department page : expedition website

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Dalley, Stephanie
Shillito Fellow in Assyriology, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
department page :

Darnell, John
Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Yale University
department page :

von Dassow, Eva
Assistant Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
department page :

Depuydt, Leo
Associate Professor of Egyptology, Brown University
department page :

Dessel, J.P.
Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Tennessee
department page :

Dever, William G.
Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Arizona
department page :

Dorman, Peter F.
Associate Professor of Egyptology, NELC, University of Chicago
department page :

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Ebeling, Jennie
Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Evansville University
department page :

Edelman, Diana
Lecturer, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield
department page :

Ehrlich, Carl S.
Associate Professor, University of York, Canada
profile :

Englund, Robert K.
Professor of Assyriology and Sumerology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California Los Angeles; Director of Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
department page :

Eriksson, Kathryn O.
website :

Etienne, Marc
Conservateur au département des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Louvre, professeur d’archéologie égyptienne à l’École du Louvre
interview (Thotweb, 1998) :

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Feldman, Marian H.
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Art, Aegean Bronze Age and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, UC Berkeley
department page and publications :

Finkelstein, Israel
Professor of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv
department page and publications

Benjamin R. Foster
Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Yale University; Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection; Assyriology
department page :

Frahm, Eckart
Assistant Professor of Assyriology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture, Yale University
department page :

Fritz, Volkmar
Professur für Biblische Theologie – Altes Testament, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
department page : publications

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Gadot, Yuval
Israeli Institute of Archaeology:
personal page :

Garfinkel, Yosef (Yossi)
Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Director, Sha’ar haGolan Excavations, Israel
department page :

Gilboa, Ayelet
Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa
department page :

Gilmour, Garth
Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford; Senior Fellow, W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
department page :

Giveon, Raphael (1916-1985)
Egyptologist
Straßenbenennung

Goodman, Martin D.
Professor of Jewish Studies; Fellow of Wolfson College, Oriental Institute; Wolfson College; Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford
department page :

Gordon, Cyrus H. (1909-2001)
Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Brandeis University (1956-1973), Professor of Hebrew Studies, New York University (1973-1989)
obituaries : New York Times

Goren, Yuval
Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv
department page : curriculum vitae

Goren-Inbar, Naama
Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
department page :

Goring-Morris, A. Nigel
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
department page :

Görg, Manfred
Professor, Universität München
department page : publications

Grandet, Pierre
personal webpage :

Greenberg, Raphael
Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
department page :

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Hackett, Jo Ann
Professor of the Practice of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, Department of NELC, Harvard University
department page :

Hadley, Judith M.
Associate Professor, Theology & Religious Studies, Villanova University
department page :

Rachel Hallote
Assistant Professor of History, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, Purchase College, State university of New York
faculty page :

Halpern, Baruch
Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, Professor of Ancient History and Religious Studies; Fellow, Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies, Pennsylvania State University
department page : curriculum vitae

Harrison, Timothy
Associate Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
department page / cv :

Hassan, Fekri
Petrie Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology & Department of Egyptology, University College London (1994-present)
department page :

Hawass, Zahi
Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Director of the Giza Pyramids Excavation
official website :

Hein, Irmgard
Associate Professor, Insitute of Egyptology, University of Vienna
university listing :

Hermann, Georgina
Reader in West Asiatic Archaeology, University College, London
department page

Herzog, Ze’ev
Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv
department page :

Hitchcock, Louise
Lecturer, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne
department page :

Hoffmeier, James K.
Professor of Old Testament, Ancient Near Eastern History & Archaeology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
department page :

Hope, Colin A.
Egyptologist, Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
department page :

Huehnergard, John
Professor of Semitic Philology, Department of NELC, Harvard University
department page :

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Ilan, David
Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology
institution page :

Izre’el, Shlomo
Professor, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
department page :

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Janssen, Rosalind
Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology, University College, London
department page :

Joukowsky, Martha
Associate Professor of Old World Archaeology and Art and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
department page 1 :

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Kemp, Barry J.
Reader in Egyptology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge; Director, el-Amarna Excavations
department page :

Killebrew, Ann
Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University
department page : curriculum vitae

Kitchen, Kenneth A.
Professor Emeritus, University of Liverpool
department page :

Knapp, A. Bernard
Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Glasgow
department page : publications

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Leclant, Jean
Professor of Egyptology, Collège de France
department page : interview (Thotweb, 1997) :

Lehmann, Gunnar
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva
department page :

Lehner, Mark

Lemche, Niels Peter
Professor, Biblical Studies Section, University of Copenhagen
department page :

Leprohon, Ronald
Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
department page / cv :

Lesko, Leonard H.
Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology, Chairman of the Department of Egyptology, Brown University
department page :

Levy, Tom
Professor of Anthropology, University of California San Diego; Director, Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project, Jordan
department page :

Lloyd, Alan
Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Wales, Swansea
department page :

Lorton, David
personal website :

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Macdonald, Burton
Professor of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
department page :

Machinist, Peter
Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, Department of NELC, Harvard University
department page :

McMahon, Augusta
University Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology; Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge
department page :

Magness, Jodi
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina
department page :

Málek, Jaromir
Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
department page :

Martin, Geoffrey Thorndike
Edwards Professor of Egyptology Emeritus, University College London
profile :

Master, Daniel
Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Wheaton College
department page :

Matthews, Roger
PhD, Reader, University College London
department page :

Mazar, Amihai
Professor of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
department page :

Meskell, Lynn
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
department page : publications : curriculum vitae

Michalowski, Piotr
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Michigan
department page :

Millard, Alan R.
Professor Emeritus, School of Archaeology, Classics & Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool
department page :

Morris, Ellen
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Wales Swansea
department page :

Mullins, Robert
Visiting Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles
department page :

Mumford, Greg
Research Associate and Project Director, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
curriculum vitae / profile :

Münger, Stefan
Departement für Evangelische Theologie, University of Bern, Switzerland
department page :

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Na’aman, Nadav
Professor of Jewish History, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
department page :

Noegel, Scott
University of Washington, Seattle, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
department page : publications

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Oren, Eliezer
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva
department page : personal page :

Ortiz, Steve
Assistant Professor of Archaeology, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
department page :

Owen, David I.
Professor, Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Cornell University
department page :

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Peltenburg, Edgar
Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
department page :

Postgate, Nicholas
Professor of Assyriology and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
department page :

Potts, Daniel T.
Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor in Middle Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney
department page :

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Quack, Joachim Friedrich
Ägyptologisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin
department page :

Quirke, Stephen
Assistant Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
department page :

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Rainey, Anson
Emeritus Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and Semitic Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
department page :

Ray, John
Reader in Egyptology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge
department page :

Redford, Donald B.
Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Pennsylvania State University
department page :

Redmount, Carol A.
Associate Professor Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley; Curator of Egyptian Archaeology, P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology; Principal Investigator and Director, UC Berkeley El-Hibeh Project, Egypt
department page and publications :

Rendsburg, Gary A.
Professor of Jewish Studies, Cornell University
department page, cv & publications :

Reich, Ronny
Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa
department page :

Richards, Janet
Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan; Assistant Curator for Dynastic Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
department page :

Robson, Eleanor
Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
department page :

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Sagona, Antonio
Associate Professor and Reader, Centre for Archaeology and Classics, University of Melbourne
department page :

Sass, Benjamin
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv
department page :

Schloen, David
Assistant Professor of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
department page :

Schneider, Tammi J.
Associate Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate College
department page :

Schniedewind, William (Bill) M.
Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Professor of Biblical Studies & Northwest Semitic Languages, University of California Los Angeles
department page :

Schwartz, Glenn M.
Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, John Hopkins University
department page :

Sheridan, Susan G.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
department page : website

Sherrat, Andrew
Professor of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
department page :

Sherrat, Susan
Evans Archivist, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
department page :

Simpson, William K.
Professor of Egyptology, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Yale University
department page :

Singer, Itamar
Professor, Ancient Near Eastern History and Cultures, Tel Aviv University
department page :

Smith, Joanna
Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
department page :

Smith, Mark
Skirball Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Studies, New York University
department page :

Sowada, Karin
Assistant Curator, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney
department page :

Spalinger, Anthony
Associate Professor, University of Auckland
department page :

Spence, Kate
Associate Lecturer, Egyptology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge
department page :

de Spens, Renaud
Director, Thotweb
institutional page :

Stager, Lawrence (Larry)
Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, Harvard University; Director, Ashkelon Excavations, Israel
department page :

Steel, Louise
University of Wales, Lampeter
department page :

Steinkeller, Piotr
Professor of Assyriology, Department of NELC, Harvard University
department page :

Sweeney, Deborah
Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
department page and publications

Szpakowska, Kasia
Egyptologist, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Wales, Swansea
department page :

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Tait, John
Professor of Egyptology, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
department page :

Thompson, Thomas
Professor, Biblical Studies Section, University of Copenhagen
department page :

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Uchitel, Alexander
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa
department page :

Ucko, Peter
Professor of Comparative Archaeology, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
department page :

Ur, Jason
SUNY, Stony Brook; Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
personal page :

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van de Mieroop, Mark
Professor, Columbia University
department page :

Vaughn, Andrew G.
Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Gustave Adolphus College
department page : personal page :

Verner, Miroslav
Professor, Czech Institute of Archaeology
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Warburton, David Alan
Aarhus University, Denmark
department page :

Watkins, Trevor
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
department page : profile : conference papers :

Wendrich, Willeke
Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California Los Angeles
department page :

Wengrow, David
Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
department page :

White Crawford, Sidnie
Professor and Chair of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; President, W.F. Albright School of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
department page :

Whitelam, Keith
Professor, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield
department page :

Wilfong, Terry
Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of Michigan; Department of Near Eastern Studies, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
department page :

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Xella, Paolo
publications :

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Yener, Aslihan
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, NELC, University of Chicago
department page :

Yoffee, Norman
Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
department page :

Young, Ian
Senior Lecturer, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney
department page : publications :

Younger, K. Lawson
Professor of Old Testament, Semitic Languages & Ancient Near Eastern History, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois
department page :

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Zaccagnini, Carlo
Professor, Professore ordinario di Storia del Vicino Oriente antico presso l’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Universita degli Studi di Napoli / University of Naples
home page :

Zertal, Adam
Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa
department page :

Zimansky, Paul
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Boston University
department page :

Zorn, Jeffrey
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
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