Curriculum Vitae Shelley Wachsmann
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Curriculum Vitae Shelley Wachsmann PERSONAL DATA Address Nautical Archaeology Program Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 Phone (979) 847-9257 E-mail [email protected] [email protected] HIGHER EDUCATION 1984 to 1990 Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology, at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Dissertation: Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Late Bronze Age Levant. Dissertation advisors: Professor Trude Dothan and Professor George F. Bass. 1974 to 1984 MA in Near Eastern Archaeology, cum laude, the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Thesis: Toward a Better Understanding of the Historical Significance of Aegeans Depicted in the Theban Tombs. Thesis advisor: Professor Trude Dothan. 1970 to 1974 BA in Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology, cum laude, at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. HISTORY OF PRIOR ACADEMIC AND RELATED APPOINTMENTS 2010-present Meadows Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University. 2009-2012 Coordinator, Nautical Archaeology Program. 1999-2010 Meadows Associate Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University. 1993-1999 Meadows Assistant Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University. Wachsmann/CV 2 1990-1993 Meadows Visiting Assistant Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University. 1990 Archaeologist/Researcher: Israel Antiquities Authority (formerly Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums [IDAM]) 1976-1989 Inspector of Underwater Antiquities, IDAM. 1975 Assistant to Dr. Amos Kloner, Field Archaeologist in charge of Jerusalem region for IDAM. ____ Assistant to Professor Yigael Yadin preparing excavation material from Tel Hazor for publication (Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem). 1974 Tel Lahav excavation, directed by Mr. David Alon (IDAM); Assistant Excavator. 1972 Office of the Staff Officer in Charge of Archaeology in Judea and Samaria (Director: Dr. Zeev Yeivin); Inspector of Antiquities. ARCHAEOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE 2014 The 2014 Ioppa Maritima Project. Reconstructing the maritime aspects of ancient Jaffa, Israel. Geoarchaeological/geophysical survey of Greonigen Park, Jaffa, and regional deep-water survey (30-250 meters). Principal Investigator. 2013 Easter Island. Reconstructing the Palaeoenvironment of the Moai Quarry inside Rano Raraku. March 07-20, 2013. In collaboration with Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cotson Institute, UCLA. 2012 2012 INA/EISP Rano Raraku Crater Lake Survey, Easter Island. Sidescan and bottom-penetrating sonar survey. March 09-26, 2012. In collaboration with Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Cotson Institute, UCLA. 2010 The 2010 Eratosthenes Seamount Expedition (Geological survey of the seamount located between Cyprus and Egypt led by Dr. Robert D. Ballard; Archaeological observer.) 2007-2009 The Danaos Project (Deep-water survey of the ancient sea route between Crete to Egypt); Project Archaeological Principal Investigator. 2003-2006 The Persian War Shipwreck Survey; Canadian Team Archaeological Principal Investigator. Wachsmann/CV 3 2005 Documented Gurob ship-cart model at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology, London. 2002 The 2002 INA/CNANS Joint Expedition: (Study of maritime aspects of Phoenician penetration into Portugal in the 7th-6th centuries BC.); Principal Investigator. 1999 The ROBO Israel Deep-Water Shipwreck Survey: (Sidescan Sonar Survey opposite Tantura Lagoon); Principal Investigator. ____ The 1999 Ashkelon Deep-Water Shipwreck Survey: (Survey of two 8th- century BC Phoenician Shipwrecks, directed by Dr. Robert Ballard and Professor Lawrence E. Stager; member of the archaeological team. 1998 Abu-el Haggag Festival in Luxor, Egypt; recorded the festival and carried out interviews. 1997 The Leon Levy Shipwreck Survey, Ashkelon Israel: (Sidescan Sonar and Diving Survey). In cooperation with the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon and Haifa University’s Center for Maritime Studies; Principal Investigator. 1996 To the Sea of the Philistines: (Sidescan Sonar Survey Opposite Ashkelon). In cooperation with the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon; Principal Investigator. 1994-1996 INA/CMS Joint Expedition to Tantura Lagoon, Israel; Principal Investigator. 1992 Sea of Galilee Archaeological Research Project (sub-bottom profiling sonar survey); Principal Investigator. 1986 Excavation of the Galilee Boat; Principal Investigator. 1985 Probe excavation of fifth-century BC Ma’agan Mikhael; Principal Investigator. ____ Land excavation in the Crusader city of Caesarea; Principal Investigator. ____ Excavation of a Byzantine wreck at Dor; Principal Investigator. 1980 Excavation of a Late Bronze Age cargo found underwater near Kibbutz Hahotrim; Principal Investigator. 1978-1985 Survey for Napoleonic remains jettisoned into the sea at Tantura during Bonaparte’s retreat from Acre; Principal Investigator. Wachsmann/CV 4 MILITARY SERVICE (ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE) Final rank First Sergeant (Rav Samal). (Ret.) 1973-1990 Active reservist (55th Paratrooper Reserve Brigade, 28th Battalion, Company A). 1969-1970 MAHA’L (Mitnadvei Chutz L’Aretz: Foreign Volunteers Unit) Completed paratrooper training. Ribbons Yom Kippur War Ribbon, Lebanese War Ribbon. FIELDS QUALIFIED TO TEACH, INCLUDING AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ANTH/RELS 317 Introduction to Biblical Archaeology ANTH/RELS 436 Ancient Egypt ANTH 612 Preclassical Seafaring ANTH 613 Classical Seafaring ANTH 633 Deep-Submergence Archaeology ANTH 660 Field Archaeology ANTH 689 Near Eastern Seafaring RECORD OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2015 Understanding the Boat from the Time of Jesus: Galilean Seafaring. Jerusalem, Carta. 2013 The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context. College Station, Texas A&M University Press. 1998 Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station & London, Texas A&M University Press & Chatham Publishing. Second printing, 2009. 1995 The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000 Year Old Discovery. New York, Plenum. Second edition, 2000 by Perseus Press, Cambridge. Third edition, 2009 by Texas A&M University Press. Fourth edition, 2015 by Commercial Press, Beijing (Chinese translation). Wachsmann/CV 5 1990 The Excavations of an Ancient Boat from the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret). (cAtiqot 19). Jerusalem, Israel Antiquities Authority. With contributors. 1987 Aegeans in the Theban Tombs. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 20). Leuven, Uitgeverij Peters. BOOK AWARDS 2013 Joint winner of the Nautical Archaeology Society’s Keith Muckelroy Award for published works on maritime archaeology for The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context with Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe’s Britain Begins. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2000 The Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the Archaeology of Israel in the popular book category for 1998-1999 for Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. 1997 The Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology for 1995-1996 for The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000 Year Old Discovery. REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 2011 Deep-Submergence Archaeology. In The Oxford Handbook of Marine Archaeology. A. Catsambis, B. Ford and D. Hamilton, ed. New York: Oxford University Press: 202-231. 2009 On Drawing the Bow. In Eretz-Israel 29 (In Honor of Ephraim Stern). J. Aviram, A. Ben-Tor, I. Ephàl, S. Gitin and R. Reich, eds. Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society: 238*-257*. 2000 To the Sea of the Philistines. In The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment. (University Museum Monograph 108. University Museum Symposium Series 11). Ed. E.D. Oren. The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: 103-143. 1990 Concerning Syro-Canaanite Sea Trade in the Late Bronze Age. In Commerce in Palestine Throughout the Ages: Studies. Eds. B.Z. Kedar, T. Dothan and S. Safrai. Yad Yitzchak Ben Zvi, Jerusalem: 42-66. (in Hebrew) INVITED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS in press The 2012 INA/EISP Rano Raraku Crater Lake Survey. In Easter Island Statue Quarry Excavations: From Stone to Sculpture. J. Van Tilburg and C. Arévalo Pakarati, eds. Los Angeles, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Wachsmann/CV 6 Press, University of California, Los Angeles. (5 pages and 8 figures) With J. Morris. (Submitted July 17, 2013). 2018 Model of a Ship Cart. In Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World. J. Spier, T. Potts and S. E. Cole, eds. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum: 61-62. 2017 Chapter 4: Historical, Cartogaphic, and Geomorphological Data concerning an Ancient Inland Harbor at Jaffa, Israel. In The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 2: The Late Ottoman Period and Other Archaeological Studies. A. A. Burke, K. S. Burke and M. Peilstöcker, eds. Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California Los Angeles: 175-220. Second author, with A.A. Burke, S. Avnaim-Katav, R.K. Dunn, K. Kowalski, G.A. Pierce, and M. Peilstöcker: 90-110. 2008 Underwater Survey, 1996-1997. In Ashkelon Excavation Report I: Introduction and Overview (1985-2006). L. E. Stager, J. D. Schloen and D. M. Master, eds. Winona Lake, Eisenbauns: 97-100. 2005 The Graveyard of Ships: Tantura Lagoon, Israel. In Beneath the Seven Seas. Ed. G.F. Bass. Thames & Hudson, London: 98-99. 2002 Nautical Archaeology in Israel. In International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology. Eds. C.V. Ruppé and J.F. Barstad. (Plenum Series of Underwater Archaeology, General ed., J.B. Arnold III). Plenum, New