Thomas E. Levy is Associate Director of CISA3 and Professor of Archaeology at UC San Diego, where he holds the Norma Kershaw Endowed Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Neighboring Lands.
Formerly, assistant director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, Levy has had a distinguished career as a field archaeologist working in Israel and Jordan. Since joining the faculty at UCSD in 1992, he has served as the chair of the Department of Anthropology and director of the Judaic Studies Program. He is currently serving his second term as director of that program and is associate director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) of UCSD’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
Levy’s interests include anthropological archaeology, Biblical and Near Eastern archaeology, ethnoarchaeology in India and the application of digital methods in archaeology. He has served as the principal investigator of major excavation projects in Israel and Jordan including Shiqmim, Gilat, and Nahal Tillah in Israel and the Jabal Hamrat Fidan and the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Projects in Jordan. These projects have been generously supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, private foundations and other institutions. In 2007 he served as the guest curator for the San Diego Museum of Man’s exhibition ‘Journey to the Copper Age’ carried out in association with the National Geographic Society (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKKL4GMeJQM ).
Dr. Levy’s research focuses primarily on the evolution of complex societies, especially chiefdoms, in the southern Levant and deep-time studies of the role of technology on the evolution of societies from the Neolithic (ca. 7,500 BCE) to the Iron Age (ca. 1200 to 500 BCE). He has published widely on these topics. His most recent books are; The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating – Archaeology, Text and Science, London: Equinox, edited with T. Higham 2005) for which they won the Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award, Best Scholarly Book on Archaeology for 2007; Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult - The Sanctuary at Gilat (Israel),2006, Editor, London: Equinox. London: Equinox; Crossing Jordan – North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. London: Equinox (Levy et al 2007 editors); and Journey to the Copper Age – Archaeology in the Holy Land. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man (2007). Levy was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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 Thomas E. Levy, Associate Director of CISA3, Professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies, Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at UC San Diego tlevy@ucsd.edu
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Investigators - International
 Caroline Grigson, Ph.D., Archaeozoologist, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK c.grigson@waitrose.com
Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Professor, Director, of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, U.K., christopher.ramsey@archaeology-research.oxford.ac.uk
Mohammad Najjar, Ph.D., Director, Friends of Archaeology (FoA) of Jordan, Amman, Jordan m.najjar@foah-jordan.org
Stefan Münger, Institute for Biblical Studies, University of Bern, Langgassstr. 51, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch
Thomas Higham, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, U.K., thomas.higham@archaeology-research.oxford.ac.uk
Uzy Smilansky, Professor, The W. Gentner Chair for Physics, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel uzy.smilansky@weizmann.ac.il
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Investigators - USA
Oystein LaBianca, Professor, Anthropology, Faculty of Behavioral Science, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA labianca@andrews.edu
Lisa Tauxe, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Paleomagnetic Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA ltauxe@ucsd.edu
Yorke M. Rowan, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA ymrowan@hotmail.com
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Investigators - UCSD Faculty
Thomas DeFanti, Director of Visualization, Calit2 and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago tdefanti@ucsd.edu [bio]
Frieder Seible, Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, and Professor, Structural Engineering, UCSD fseible@ucsd.edu [bio]
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Investigators - Staff Researchers and Postdocs
Kai-Uwe Doerr kdorr@ucsd.edu [bio]
John Graham, Chief Scientist, Visualization Center, San Diego State University johng@telascience.org [bio]
Jules Jaffe, Research Oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD jules@mpl.ucsd.edu [bio]
Daniel Johnson, Staff Engineer, Calit2 danieldeanjohnson@gmail.com
Donald Kimball, Principal Development Engineer, Calit2 dfkimball@ucsd.edu [bio]
Javier Rodriguez Molina, Staff Researcher, Calit2 jar001@soe.ucsd.edu
Jürgen Schulze, Project Scientist, Calit2 jschulze@ucsd.edu [bio]
Dogan Seber, Director, Geoinformatics Lab, San Diego Supercomputer Center dseber@ucsd.edu [bio]
Philip Weber, Staff Researcher, Calit2 at UCSD pweber@ucsd.edu
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Investigators - Affiliated
Eric Frost, Visualization Center Director and Professor, Geological Sciences, San Diego State University eric.frost@sdsu.edu [bio]
Stephen Savage, Director, Geo-Archaeological Information Applications Lab and Adjunct Professor, Arizona State University shsavage@asu.edu [bio]
William Tong, Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University william.tong@sdsu.edu [bio]
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Development
Kelly Briggs, Director of Development, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD kbriggs@ucsd.edu (858) 534-2329
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Staff
Alexandra Hubenko ahubenko@ucsd.edu
Doug Ramsey dramsey@ucsd.edu
Laura Wolszon lwolszon@ucsd.edu
Serena Camozzo scamozzo@ucsd.edu
Vanessa Pool vpool@ucsd.edu
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