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Katharina Galor ( he, 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
Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a Public university, public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 14 ...
), Israel (
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
) 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
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...
in Berlin, and at
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
and the
Rhode Island School of Design
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...
in the US. She was a fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, at the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University, at the Antike Kolleg Berlin, the Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Chronoi Center of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. 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
Apollonia ( grc, Απολλωνία; he, אפולוניה), known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf ( ar, أرْسُوف, translit=Arsūf) and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of w ...
.
Since 2006 her interests have shifted to encompass cultural heritage studies with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Her publications include ''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
The Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955, is an international research institute with centres in New York City, London, and Jerusalem that are devoted to the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. Baeck was its first intern ...
to complete her current book project on Jewish women.
Publications
* ''The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013; with H. Bloedhorn).
* ''Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).
* ''The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020; with Sa’ed Atshan).
* ''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, and J. Zangenberg, (Boston: 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 Levant Supplementary Series 3 (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006).
* ''From Antioch to Alexandria. Studies in Domestic Architecture during the Roman and Byzantine Periods'', (eds.) Galor, K. and Waliszewski, T. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, 2007.
*''Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research in the Holy City. Proceedings of the Conference held at Brown University November 12–14, 2006'', (eds.) K. Galor and G. Avni (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011).
* ''Gender and Social Norms in Ancient Israel, Early Judaism and Christianity. Texts and Material Culture. Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, February 18–21, 2016'', (eds.), M. Bauks, K. Galor and J. Hartenstein, in Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019).
References
External links
Faculty page at Brown University* Lecture: ''Kenyon Institute Jerusalem'': /* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BHXtwu1ys*/
* Lecture: ''Jewish Museum Berlin'': /* https://www.jmberlin.de/en/talk-katharina-galor-the-temple-mount
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