Katharina Galor
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies:
Program in Judaic Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3838
Katharina_Galor@Brown.EDU
Katharina Galor's research focuses on the archaeology of Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine period.
Biography
Katharina Galor is a visiting assistant Professor at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University. She is the President of the AIA (American Institute of Archaeology) Narragansett Society. After her licence (1988), maîtrise (1989) and diplôme d'études approfondi (1991) from the University of Aix-Marseille in France, she received her Ph.D. at Brown University (1996) and completed her post-doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1997).
Katharina Galor has taught Syro-Palestinian archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (The Rothberg School for Overseas Students), at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem and at Tufts University in the US. She has excavated at a number of sites in Italy (Vigna Barberini in Rome), France (Old Jewish quarter of Cavaillon and the Byzantine church at Roquevert) and Israel (Jerusalem, Sepphoris, Qumran, Ein Gedi, Ramat Hanadiv and Tiberias). Her research focuses on Roman and Byzantine Palestine, with topics related to sacred, civic and domestic architecture, town planning, water installations and mosaics.
She is currently co-directing the excavations at Apollonia-Arsuf a joint Brown University-Tel Aviv University project.
Among her publications are:
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.
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).
Interests
Katharina Galor's publications relate to various topics in Roman and Byzantine Palestine, including sacred, civic and domestic architecture, town planning, water installations, and mosaics. She has worked specifically on Qumran, Sepphoris, Tiberias, and Jerusalem, and has examined how ethnicity and religious affiliation can be identified in the material records of those sites.
Degrees
Ph.d.
Awards
1996 : Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1991 : D.E.A. in History and Archaeology Magna Cum Laude
1989 : Maîtrise in Art History and Archaeology Magna Cum Laude
Affiliations
American Institute of Archaeology
American Schools of Oriental Research
Society of Biblical Literature
Funded Research
2005: Rhode Island School of Design-Brown University Institutional Collaboration Grant ($3,000)
2005: Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) ($2,650)
2004: Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureships Fund ($1,300)
2003: Watson Institute for International Studies ($16,000)
2003: Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards Program ($9,000)
2002: Kress Travel Grant ($4,000)
2002: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant to Brown University: Pluralism and Unity Program ($1,500)
2002: Shelby White and Leon Levy Foundation ($3,000)
2002: Biblical Archaeology Society ($2,000)
2002: RICH ($2,000)
2002: Brown Lectureship Fund ($4,800)
2002: Watson Institute for International Studies ($6,000)
2002: Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut (Berlin) Research Grant ($2,800)
2001: Kress Travel Grant ($2,200)
1996: Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ($20,000)
1995: Joukowsky Foundation Fellowship, Brown University ($1,000)
1994: Joukowsky Foundation Fellowship, Brown University ($1,000)
1991: "Ecole Française de Rome" Fellowship (for the excavation of the Vigna Barberini in Rome) ($1,800)
