Division of Social Sciences
New College of Florida
Sarasota, FL 34243
(o) 941-487-4217
(fax) 941-487-4475
Baram@ncf.edu
URL: http://faculty.ncf.edu/baram
EDUCATION
1996 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1989 MA Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1986 BA Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Historical Archaeology, method and theory; race and ethnicity, commodities and consumption; heritage tourism. Areas: eastern Mediterranean: Israel; North America: historic New England and Southwest Florida
TEACHING INTERESTS
General Anthropology; Archaeology (Old and New World); Cultural Anthropology and History; Middle Eastern Cultures and Identities; Race and Ethnicity; Material Culture.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2003 to present Associate Professor of Anthropology
New College of Florida
2010 to present Director, New College Public Archaeology Lab
1997 to 2003 Assistant Professor of Anthropology
(2001- 2003) New College of Florida
(1997-2001) New College of the University of South Florida
1996-1997 Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Assumption College
and
Visiting Instructor, International Development and Social Change Program.
Clark University
1991-1996 Instructor, Division of Continuing Education
University of Massachusetts
1994-1996 Academic Advisor, University Advising Center
University of Massachusetts
1987-1989 Teaching Assistant
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
Courses taught include:
Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Introduction to Archaeology; Method and Theory in Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Archaeology of the Middle East, Archaeology of the Holy Land; Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East, The Colonial Encounter, Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective; Heritage: History and the Past Today, Culture through Film, Sex Roles and the Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Ancient Civilizations, Ancient North America, North American Indians.
PUBLICATIONS
2004 Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2000 A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground. Uzi Baram and Lynda Carroll. Plenum/Kluwer Academic Press, New York. Translated into Turkish in 2004 as Osmanlı Arkeolojisi, by Bilgi Altinok. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul.
Journal Volumes Edited
2007 Between Art and Artifact. Diana DiPaolo Loren and Uzi Baram. Thematic issue of Historical Archaeology Volume 41, number 1.
Articles and Book Chapters
2009 "Above and Beyond Ancient Mounds: The Archaeology of the Modern Periods in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean" In International Handbook of Historical Archaeology, edited by Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster, pp. 647-662. Springer, New York.
2009 "Learning Service and Civic Engagement: A Historic Cemetery as a Site for Grappling with Community, Politics, and Commemoration" In Archaeology and Community Service Learning, edited by Michael Nassaney and Mary Ann Levine, pages 110-121. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2008 "A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River" African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter June 2008. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0608/news0608.html.
2007 "Archaeological Surveys, Excavations, and Landscapes of the Ottoman Imperial Realm: an Agenda for the Archaeology of Modernity for the Middle East" In Constructing Post-Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda. Proceedings of the International Conference (Venice, 24th and 25th November 2006), edited by Sauro Glichi and Mauro Librenti, pp. 11-19. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente, Insegnamento di Archeologia Medievale, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia.
2007 "Appropriating the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel" In Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts, edited by P.L. Kohl, M Kozelsky, and N. Ben-Yehuda, pages 299-325. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
2007 "Tourism and Archaeology" In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah M. Pearsall, Volume 3, pages 2131-2134. Academic Press, New York.
2007 "Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel" In Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, edited by Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine, pages 15-40. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham.
2007 "Images of the Holy Land: The David Roberts Paintings as Artifacts of 1830s Palestine" Historical Archaeology 41(1):106-117.
2007 "Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representation in Historical Archaeology" Second author with Diana DiPaolo Loren. Historical Archaeology 41(1):1-5.
2006 "Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia from the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt" Second author with Cheryl Ward. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(2):135-158
2005 "A New Route in Heritage Tourism on Florida's Southwest Coast" The SAA Archaeological Record 5(3):20-22.
2004 "Archaeology after Nationalism: Globalization and the Consumption of the Past" Senior author with Yorke Rowan. In Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past, edited by Y. Rowan and U. Baram, pages 3-23. AltaMira, Walnut Creek.
2002 "Seeing Differences: Travellers to Ottoman Palestine and Accounts of Diversity" Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 3(2):29-49.
2002 "The Development of Historical Archaeology in Israel: An Overview and Prospects" Historical Archaeology 36(4):12-29
2001 "Localised Capitalism in Global Historical Archaeology: A Discussion of the Archaeology of Improvement in Scotland" Archaeological Dialogues 8(1):24-27.
2000 "Entangled Objects from the Palestinian Past: Archaeological Perspectives for the Ottoman Period, 1500-1900" In A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground, edited by U.Baram and L.Carroll, pages 137-160. Kluwer/Plenum, New York Translated into Turkish as 2004 Filistin Geçmişinden Dolaşki Objeler. Osmanlı Arkeolojisi pages 142-163. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul.
2000 "The Future of the Ottoman Past" Senior author with Lynda Carroll. In A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground, edited by U.Baram and L.Carroll, pages 3-36. Kluwer/Plenum, New York. Translated into Turkish as 2004 Osmanlı Geçmişinin Geleceği. Osmanlı Arkeolojisi pages 15-48. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul.
1999 "Clay Tobacco Pipes and Coffee Cup Sherds in the Archaeology of the Middle East: Artifacts of Social Tensions from the Ottoman Past" International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(3):137-151.
1996 "Guns and Roses: Time Capsules, Ritual Activity, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College" Second author with Michael Nassaney, James C. Garman, and Michael Milewski. Old Time New England 74(262):59-80. Reprinted in 2010 Beneath the Ivory Tower: The Archaeology of Academia, edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Kenneth E. Lewis, pp. 74-96. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1996 "Historical Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of the Mediterranean" In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan, pages 424-425. Oxford University Press, New York.
1995 "Notes on the Preliminary Typologies of Production and Chronology for the Clay Tobacco Pipes of Cyprus" In The Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Pages 299-309. Ministry of Communications and Works, Nicosia.
1995 "Questions and Answers for the Material Culture of Cyprus: The Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries" In Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus, edited by P.W. Wallace. Pages 125-134. Institute of Cypriot Affairs, University at Albany, State University of New York.
2008 Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. For Renaissance Studies 22(1):133-134.
2007 A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwest Morea in the 18th century. For American Journal of Archaeology 111(2):387-388.
2006 The Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing and The Lost Florida Manuscript of Frank Hamilton Cushing. For The Florida Anthropologist 59(3-4):266-267
2005 The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine. For The Journal of Field Archaeology 30(4):471-474.
2002 Jerusalem in Original Photographs, 1850-1920: Photographs from the Archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund. For Near Eastern Archaeology 65(4):287-288.
2002 Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine. For International Journal of Middle East Studies 34(4): 748-750.
1999 Reader in Archaeological Theory: Postprocessual and Cognitive Approaches. For American Antiquity 64(3):562.
Research Announcements and Field Reports
2010 Testing Radar Tomography at the Manatee Mineral Spring: Exploratory Excavations. On file with Reflections of Manatee, Inc.
2008 "Finding Lost Settlements with Multi-channel 3D GPR: Examples from North Carolina and Florida" third author with Ralf Birken and Eric Klingelhofer. FastTIMES: News for the Near-surface Geophysical Sciences 13(3):42-50.
2008 Testing Radar Tomography at the Manatee Mineral Spring: A Small View from March 2008. On file with Reflections of Manatee, Inc.
2006 "Historical Archaeology in Italy" The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Newsletter 10(1):3
2006 "Looking for Angola" The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 39(1):43-44.
2001 Historical Archaeological Investigations of Site #8SO585 in Venice, Florida: The Venice Train Depot (VTD) Excavations of 2001. Senior author with Susan Lynn White and Erin Westfall. On file at Sarasota County Historical Resources.
1999 "Khirbet Zeitah al-Kharab G-38/1999 L.10.D26 Final Report" The Inaugural Season for the Zeitah Expedition, edited by R.Tappy. On file at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
1999 "Historical Archaeology in Akko" The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 40(1):40.
1995 "Analysis of the Clay Tobacco Pipes" For The Morasha Neighborhood Excavations in Jerusalem, edited by S. Wolff and D. Amit. On file at the Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
1994 "George A. Barton and Anita Cecil O'Donovan Fellow Report" American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 44(1):6-7
1994 "Current Research: Eastern Mediterranean" The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter 27(3):34.
1994 "Ottoman-Era Ceramics in Jerusalem" For Mamilla Excavations, edited by R.Reich. On file at Israeli Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
1990 "Excavations at the Khouri Farmstead" For Ramat Hanadiv Excavations, Season 6, edited by Y.Hirschfeld. Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem.
1989 "Preliminary excavations at the Khouri Farmstead" For Ramat Hanadiv Excavations, Season 5, edited by Y.Hirschfeld. Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem.
CONFERENCES
Symposium Organizer
2010 Neighborhood Archaeology: Volunteers, Communities, and Local Politics. Co-organized with Robert Austin. Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, St. Louis.
2010 Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Florida in Global Perspective. Co-organized with Dan Hughes. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, Amelia Island, Florida.
2003 Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representations in Historical Archaeology. Co-organized with Diana Loren. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, Providence, Rhode Island.
2000 Accounts of Travelers to the Holy Land. American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Nashville.
1999 Material Culture and History. American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Boston.
1996 Breaking New Ground for an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: A Prologue and A Dialogue. A conference, co-organized with Lynda Carroll at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
1995 Historical Archaeology in the Mediterranean. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting. Washington, D.C.
1992 Marxism and Archaeology. The New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, an international conference sponsored by Rethinking Marxism. Amherst, Massachusetts.
co-organized with James C. Garman at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1992 Critical Perspectives on Material Culture. Co-organized with James C. Garman. Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting. Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Conference Presentations
2010 Organizing Archaeology: Community Outreach and Civic Engagements in the Commemoration of the Past. For Neighborhood Archaeology: Volunteers, Communities, and Local Politics session at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, St. Louis.
2010 A Maroon Community in Southern Tampa Bay, Florida: Resistance during the Transition from Spanish to American Rule. For the Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Florida in Global Perspective session at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Amelia Island, Florida.
2009 Marketing Ethnic Heritage: Tourism and Cosmopolitanism in Pursuit of the Past. For the Tourism, Archaeology, and Development Session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia.
2009 Remembering a Community of Self-Emancipated Africans in Spanish La Florida: Historical Archaeology and Public Anthropology in Southern Tampa Bay. Annual meeting of the Florida Folklore Society, Family Heritage House Museum, Bradenton.
2008 Revealing a Hidden History: Looking for Angola's Public Archaeology Program. The Public Anthropology through Cross Disciplinary and Cross Cultural Collaboration, Inclusion and Engagement: "Looking for Angola" in Florida and the Bahamas Session of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
2008 A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River. The Underground Railroad, Marronage, Armed Struggle, and Beyond Symposium of the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Albuquerque.
2007 Hidden Histories Along the Manatee River: Heritage Outreach and Interpretation with Traces of Our Past. Senior author with Sherry Svekis. Florida Maritime Heritage Preservation Conference, Bradenton.
2007 The Archaeological Process: Research and Ethics Today. Archaeology: Basic Concepts in Practice and Public Outreach session of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation annual meeting, Sarasota.
2007 A Historic Cemetery as a Site for Grappling with Community, Politics, and Commemoration. Archaeological Practice and Community Service Learning Symposium of the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Williamsburg.
2006 Lessons Learned from the Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Constructing Post Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda, an international conference sponsored by Universita Ca'Focari. Venice, Italy.
2005 Pursuing Social Justice: Civic Engagement and the Potential for Expanding the Public Sphere. With Keith Fitzgerald. Pedagogies in Teaching session at the Consortium for Innovative Environments for Learning (CIEL) annual meeting. Buffalo.
2005 Looking for Angola: Public Archaeology and Public Education. Second author with Vickie Oldham, Canter Brown Jr., Bill Burger, Rosalyn Howard, and Louis Robinson. Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting, Gainesville.
2005 In the Public Interest: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Heritage Tourism. Archaeological Theories as Ideologies session of the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salt Lake City.
2003 The Complexities of Modernity in the Middle East: Historical Archaeology and Its Contributions. Shining the Light: The Illumination of History and Cultural Processes through Archaeology - The Differing Approaches and Foci of `Historical Archaeology' Worldwide session of the fifth World Archaeological Congress. Washington, DC.
2003 The Ibis Archaeological Field School at Little Salt Spring. Senior author is Traci Ardren. Florida Anthropological Society annual meeting. Tallahassee.
2003 Images of the Holy Land: Travelers and Their Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century Palestine. Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representations in Historical Archaeology Session of the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Providence.
2002 Transportation and the Development of a Florida Town: Excavations and Memories at the 1927 Seaboard Railroad Depot in Venice, Florida. Senior author with Susan Lynn White. Public Archaeology session of the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mobile.
2001 Layers of Meaning from the Clay Tobacco Pipes of the Ottoman Middle East. Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Smoking and Tobacco Pipes session of the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting. New Orleans.
2000 A Legacy of the Grand Tour: Travelers to Palestine during the Nineteenth Century, and what they saw that we miss. Accounts of Travelers to the Holy Land session of the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Nashville.
2000 Contributions to a Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Artifacts of Trade and Social Change from Palestine. Archaeology of Cities and Trade session of the Forum for European Expansion and Global Interactions. St. Augustine.
1999 Where Napoleon's Dreams Vanished: Historical Events and Material Changes in Akko During the Ottoman Period. Material Culture and History session of the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Boston.
1998 New Directions in the Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe: Typologies, Material Variation, and Social Change. Pottery Analysis session of the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Orlando.
1998 An Archaeology of Middle Eastern Pleasures: Coffee and Tobacco in the Ottoman Empire. Commodities in Global Perspective session of the Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting. Atlanta.
1996 Consuming Habits of the Ottoman Empire: Archaeological Perspectives on Consumption and Commodities in the Middle East. Social Change and Material Culture Session of the American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco.
1996 The Habits of Modernity: Entangled Commodities from the Palestinian Past. Breaking New Ground of an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Binghamton, New York.
1995 Material Culture and Consumption in Palestine - Changes over the Ottoman Period, 1516-1917. Historical Archaeology in the Mediterranean Session of the Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting. Washington, DC.
1994 Steps toward an Archaeology of Ottoman Palestine. New Directions in Islamic Art and Archaeology session of the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting. Chicago.
1994 Questions and Answers for the Material Culture of Cyprus: The Sixteenth through Nineteenth Century. Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus, an international conference sponsored by the Institute of Cypriot Affairs. Albany, New York.
1994 Time Capsules, Ritualism, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Second author with Michael Nassaney and James Garman. Northeast Anthropological Association annual meeting. Geneseo, New York.
1992 Bordercrossing: An Archaeology of Ottoman Palestine. Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, an international conference sponsored by Rethinking Marxism. Amherst, Massachusetts.
1992 Palestine's Post-Columbian Material Culture: A Consideration of Turkish Tobacco Pipes. Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting. Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
1991 "Palestine is desolate and unlovely": The Potential of Historical Archaeology in Israel. Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting. Richmond, Virginia.
1989 The William S. Clark Housesite: A Study of the Material Correlates of Leadership. First Joint Archaeological Congress. Baltimore, Maryland.
1987 Material Culture in a New Light: Stone Fences in Bellingham, Massachusetts. Second author with J. Edward Hood and Mark Bograd. Northeastern Anthropological Association annual meeting. Amherst, Massachusetts.
Other Professional Presentations
2010 Rebuilding Pride and Purpose through the Arts: History, Heritage, Education, Community, Economic Development. Panel discussion at the Ringling College of Art and Design.
2010 Chair for Cross-Cultural Currents in Mediterranean Literature session of New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota.
2008 Community-based Research: From Tampa Bay to Red Bays. Invited lecture at the College of Bahamas. Nassau.
2008 Public Archaeology on Florida's Southwest Coast: A Rich Heritage and New Opportunities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society. Ybor City.
2008 Chair for Europeans Imagine the World session of the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota.
2007 Invited Participant for Rethinking Weeden Island: Designing Research for the 21st Century. St. Petersburg, Florida
2007 Invited Participant in a focus group for Florida Humanities Council: a new research grant. Orlando.
2007 Discussant for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Action: The Florida Public Archaeology Network session of the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, Tampa.
2006 Chair for Expanding the Idea of Europe session of the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota.
1996 Chair for Social Change and Material Culture session of the American Anthropological Association annual meeting. San Francisco.
PUBLIC LECTURES (since 1998)
2010 Honoring the Dead, Keeping History Alive: Sarasota' Galilee Cemetery. For the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation annual meeting, Sarasota.
2010 The Future of the Past. For the Ground breaking ceremony for the New College Public Archaeology Lab.
2010 Archaeo-heritage sites as Cosmopolitan Canopies. For the History and Preservation Coalition of Sarasota County.
2009-10 Introductions for Traces of Our Past: Florida's History Through Archaeology. A six-part lecture series co-sponsored by the New College Public Archaeology Laboratory and Time Sifters and supported by the Florida Humanities Council, held at New College.
2009 Archaeology and History Hidden in Plain Sight. For the Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood, Sarasota.
2009 Looking for Angola: New Approaches & Evidence in the Search for an Early 19th Century Maroon Community on the Manatee River. For the Gulf Coast Archaeological Society, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2009 Politics of the Past: New Discoveries and Controversies in the Archaeology of Israel's Ancient Kings. For Time Sifters, Sarasota's local archaeology society.
2007 To Dig or Not To Dig: A Discussion of Ethics in Archaeology. For Traces of Our Past at Manatee Mineral Spring, sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council.
2007 A Hidden History: the Exiles living on the Manatee River. For Temple Emanu-El, Sarasota.
2007 Politics of the Past: Biblical Archaeology in Israel. For The Program for Arts and Humanities, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Sarasota.
2007 Looking for Angola on the Manatee River: Filling a Gap in History. For the Sarasota Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
2006 Looking for Angola. For the Sarasota Reading Festival, Sarasota.
2006 Looking for Angola. For Florida Conversations, sponsored by Tampa Bay History Center and USF Florida Studies Center.
2006 Public Archaeology and Hidden Histories. For Traces of Our Past program at DeSoto National Memorial (NPS), sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council.
2005 Looking for Angola. A series of six presentations in Sarasota and Manatee counties on the early 19th century maroon community, sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. The presentations included a panel with an archaeologist, ethnographer, historian, and educator for the general public; other presentations were directed toward various communities in the region. The endeavor included interviews with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Portuguese-language service and WMNF (Tampa Bay's 88.5) as well as several newspaper articles.
2005 Visions and Voyages: Travelers to the Middle East and What They Saw. For The Program for East and West: Cultural Exchange and Conflict in the Mediterranean, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Sarasota.
2003 The Historical Registry Designation for Rosemary Cemetery. For Time Sifters.
2002 The Politics of the Past: Biblical Archaeology Today. For Time Sifters.
2002 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology in Jerusalem. For the virtual university at Temple Beth Am in Margate, Florida.
2001 The Power of Passions and the Possibilities for Peace in the Middle East. For the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club at Bird Key.
2000 Archaeology and How It Effects Politics in Israel. For the salon series of Temple Beth Sholom.
2000 Realignment in the Middle East: New Directions for the New Millennium. For the Venice Great Decisions group.
1999 Race in the community for Channel 40 News (along with Professor Hernandez). Channel 40 used more excerpts from the interviews for an extended segment on the six o'clock news called "Race Relations: A Special Report."
1999 Multiculturalism in the Community. For the Venice Great Decisions group.
1999 The Election in Israel. For the Salon Series of Temple Beth Sholom.
1999 What are we remembering?: History, Collective Memory, and the New Past of Israel. For the Society for Humanistic Judaism.
1998 Discussion of the Current Middle Eastern situation focused on Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
For the salon series for American Friends of Peace Now.
1998 Fifty Years of Israeli Archaeology. For a community group on Siesta Key.
GRANTS and AWARDS
2008-2010 Project Director for Preserving Regional Heritage: New College Public Archaeology Laboratory.
FIPSE Programs: Grant P116Z080257. US Department of Education.
2008 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research into Building a Public Archaeology Laboratory
2007 Co-sponsor for Traces of Our Past at Manatee Mineral Spring, funded by Florida Humanities Council
2006 Co-sponsor for Traces of Our Past at DeSoto National Memorial, funded by Florida Humanities Council
2005 New College Faculty Development Grant for a new course offering - Heritage: History and the Past Today
2002 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Sarasota County
2001 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in the Historical Archaeology of Sarasota County
2000 Instructional Development Grants: Support for Faculty Innovation. USF Center for Teaching Grant for Centering Florida in a course on North American Prehistory
1999 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in Israel
1998 University of South Florida Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Program for fieldwork in Israel
1998 New College Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research in Israel
1996 Conference Support Grants from the Institute for Turkish Studies, Department of Anthropology at UMass, UMass Graduate School, and Department of Anthropology at SUNY Binghamton for Breaking New Ground for an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire.
1995 Twentieth-fifth Anniversary Graduate Research Grant for Dissertation Graphics
Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts
1993 George A. Barton Fellowship for the William F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem;
American Schools of Oriental Research
1993 Anita Cecil O'Donovan Fellowship for the Cyprus American Archaeological
Research Institution; American Schools of Oriental Research
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society
for American Archaeology
World Archaeological Congress
Time Sifters, the Sarasota Chapter of the Florida Anthropological Association
Manuscript Reviewer for the Following Journals/Publishers:
The International Journal of Historical Archaeology
The International Journal of Middle East Studies
American Anthropologist
Current Anthropology
The Journal of Social Archaeology
Antiquity
Wadsworth/Thomson Higher Education
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books
Westview Press
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Publications
Pine Forge Press/Sage Publications
Pearson Prentice Hall
External Reviewer of Tenure Candidates for:
Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University (2003)
Anthropology/Sociology at Assumption College (2004)
Honors College of the University of New Mexico (2007)
Grants Reviewed
Council for the Humanities, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Other Professional Activities
Research Coordinator for Middle East for The SHA Newsletter (2003 - present)
Florida Humanities Council exhibit reviewer (2004)
Trail of Lost Tribes - Founding Board of Directors (2000-2003)
Grassroots Anthropology - Board of Directors (2003- 2004)
Looking for Angola Advisory Board (2004 - present)
Traces of our Past Advisory Board (2006 - present)
Weedon Island Advisory Board (2008 - present)
NEW COLLEGE COMMITTEE SERVICE
Faculty Advisor for Hillel (1997 - 2004; 2007 - present)
Campus Space Committee (1998 - 99; co-chair)
Campus Blueprint Task Force on Diversity (Summer 1999)
Student Academic Standards Committee (1999 - 2001; secretary)
Educational Policy Committee (Spring 2002)
Faculty Academic Status Committee (2002 - 2003; Spring 2006)
International Studies Committee (2003 - Fall 2004; chair)
Provost Advisory Committee (Spring 2005)
Ad-hoc committee for the Visiting Fulbright Scholar: Direct Access to the Muslim World Program (Spring 2005)
New College Child Center, Inc. (2006- 2007)
United Faculty of Florida Bargaining Team (2007-2009; chief negotiator Spring 2009)
New College Representative to the University of Florida Press editorial board (2007 - present)
REFERENCES
Available upon request