ABOUT US

Tel Akko is an extraordinary archaeological excavation that has taken place, with some interruptions, over a period of some thirty years. It was previously under the Directorship of Moshe Dhotan, who has now sadly passed. It is currently under the joint Directorship of Ann Killebrew and Michal Artzy who have both been involved with it since 1977

Academic Team, Specialists & Staff

Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion; 2010, 2016)

Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University; 2010–2019)

Gary Gilbert (Claremont McKenna College; 2010–2019)

Jolanta Młynarczyk (University of Warsaw; 2011–2019)

Nicholaus Pumphrey (Baker University; 2015–2019)

Martha Risser (Trinity College; 2010–2019)

Melissa Rosenzweig (Miami University of Ohio; 2015–2018)

Tammi Schneider (Claremont Graduate University; 2019–2019)

Michael Sugerman (University of Massachusetts Amherst and SUNY Binghamton; (2019–2019)

Nancy Tan (Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2019)

Amani Abu Hamid (Israel Antiquities Authority and University of Haifa; 2010–2015)

Justin Batista (University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2016–2017)

Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion; 2010)

Mikael Bruun-Schmidt (University of Copenhagen; 2010–2013)

John T. Crawmer (University of Massachusetts Boston; 2018)

Monica Genuardi (Rutgers University; 2019)

Gary Gilbert (Claremont McKenna College; 2015–2016, 2018–2019)

Daniel Griswold (SUNY Buffalo; 2017–2019)

Brady Liss (University of California San Diego; 2014)

Brandon Olson (Boston University; 2010–2012)

Amanda Pumphrey (Claremont Graduate University; 2019)

Nicholaus Pumphrey (Claremont Graduate University and Baker University; 2013–2019)

June Weber (University of Nebraska; 2019)

Benjamin Baker (Pennsylvania State University; 2010–2012)

Helen Batey-Smith (University of Melbourne; 2019)

Justin Batista (University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2014–2015)

Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion; 2016)

Darcy Calabria (Pennsylvania State University; 2017–2019)

John T. Crawmer (Pennsylvania State University; 2016–2017)

Zachary Devlin (Pennsylvania State University; 2010–2014)

Caitlin Donahue (Pennsylvania State University; 2019)

Kelsey Driscoll (Pennsylvania State University; 2019)

Monica Genuardi (Pennsylvania State University; 2014–2018)

Gary Gilbert (Claremont McKenna College; 2013–2014, 2017)

Marcin Gostkowski (University of Warsaw; 2017)

Robert Grutz (Independent; 2011)

Madeline Harris-Schober (University of Melbourne; 2018)

Rebecca Hisiger (Pacific School of Religion; 2010)

Amanda Holdeman (University of Haifa; 2018–2019)

Hande Köpürlüoğlu (Bilkent University; 2014–2015)

Elizabeth Grace Leonnig (Fairfield University; 2014)

Brady Liss (Pennsylvania State University; 2013)

Paige Lynch (Pennsylvania State University; 2014)

Alan Moseley (Pennsylvania State University; 2015)

Cas Popp (Pennsylvania State University; 2017)

Amanda Pumphrey (Claremont Graduate University; 2013–2014; 2016–2018)

Nicholaus Pumphrey (Claremont Graduate University; 2010–2012)

  1. Jesse Schley (Trinity College; 2015–2016)

Lucas Schulte (Claremont Graduate University; 2010)

Marissa Scott (Pennsylvania State University; 2019)

Ian Seasholtz (Pennsylvania State University; 2019)

Jane C. Skinner (Pennsylvania State University and Yale University; 2010–2013)

Sharon Staub (Independent; 2018)

Matthew Susnow (University of Haifa; 2016)

Tracy Thorpe (Harvard University; 2011)

Joseph Valenzuela (Pennsylvania State University; 2010)

Mark Van Horn (Pennsylvania State University; 2017–2018)

Benjamin Wallace (Slippery Rock University; 2010)

Eliza Wallace (Boston University; 2013)

June Weber (Pennsylvania State University; 2018)

Patricia Aven (Registrar; Claremont Graduate University; 2010)

Kristen Barry Brown (Architect; Pennsylvania State University; 2010–2011)

Jill Bierly (Registrar; University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2012)

Daniel Bryson (Registrar; Claremont Graduate University; 2010)

Jane Grutz (Registrar; Independent; 2011)

Matthew Hunt (Registrar; Pennsylvania State University; 2014)

Jamie Quartermaine (Surveyor; Oxford Archaeology North; 2010–2019)

Jane C. Skinner (Architect; Pennsylvania State University and Yale University; 2012–2019)

Evan Taylor (Registrar; University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2013)

Yossi Salmon (University of Haifa; 2010–2012)

Ragna Stidsing (University of Haifa; 2010–2019)

Jolanta Młynarczyk (University of Warsaw; 2011–2019)

Martha Risser (Trinity College; 2010–2019)

Rachel Ben-Dov (W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeology; 2012–2019)

Dena Davis (Harvard Semitic Museum; 2010–2011)

Weronika Karpinska-Szarata (University of Warsaw; 2016–2017)

Linda Meiberg (University of Pennsylvania; 2018–2019)

Amanda Pumphrey (Claremont Graduate University; 2015)

David Cole (Media; Pennsylvania State University; 2015)

Adi Eliyahu-Behar (Archaeometallurgy; Weizmann Institute of Science and Bar Ilan University; 2014–2015, 2017–2018)

Ümit Güder (Archaeometallurgy; Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi and Max Planck Institute; 2017–2019)

Timothy Hay (Photogrammetry; Pennsylvania State University; 2015–2016)

Emily Holt (Archaeozoology; SUNY Buffalo; 2017)

Matthew Howland (Photogrammetry; Pennsylvania State University; 2013)

Omri Lernau (Archaeozoology; Independent, 2016–2019)

Justin Lev Tov (Archaeozoology; Cogstone Resources Management and R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates Inc., 2013–2019)

Andrea Elyse Messer (Media; Pennsylvania State University; 2012, 2014, 2015)

Jennifer Munro (Media; Munro Marketing; 2016– 2019)

Brandon Olson (GIS and Photogrammetry; Pennsylvania State University; 2010–2012)

Ryan Placchetti (Photogrammetry; University of Pennsylvania; 2011–2012, 2014)

Jamie Quartermaine (Photogrammetry; Oxford Archaeology North; 2011–2019)

Melissa Rosenzweig (Archaeootany; University of Chicago and University of Miami Ohio; 2013–2018)

Jane C. Skinner (GIS and Photogrammetry; Pennsylvania State University and Yale University, 2012–2019)

Eugene (Genie Deez) Staples II (Media; Claremont Graduate University; 2019)

Agnes (AJ) Tessner Risser (Photogrammetry; Wellesley College; 2017–2018)

Naama Yahalom Mack (Archaeometallurgy; Weizmann Institute of Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2015, 2017–2018)

David Zell (Photogrammetry and Conservation; Independent; 2015–2019)

Ornit Babani-Schnecke (Israel Antiquities Authority; 2015–2019)

Ayelet Cohen Levit (Israel Antiquities Authority; 2014)

Dana DePietro (SHARE; 2014–2015)

Aurora Lattarulo (Israel Antiquities Authority; 2017–2018)

Shelley-Anne Peleg (Israel Antiquities Authority and Independent; 2010–2019)

Elena Sesma (University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2017–2018)

Evan Taylor (University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2014– 2015, 2017–2018)

Rahel Merhav (Independent; 2010–2019)

Jihad Abu Janam (Israel Archaeological Services; 2016–2019)

Oren Gutfeld (Israel Archaeological Services; 2014–2019)

Shireen Mahajne (University of Haifa; 2012)

Daniel Naphtali (Israel Archaeological Services; 2015)

Ahiad Ovidia (Israel Archaeological Services; 2014)

Yachin Yankelevitch (Independent; 2010–2013)

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