Katharina Galor

Katharina Galor in 2005 in the ancient synagogue of Hamat Tiberias on the Sea of ​​Galilee

Katharina Meisel Galor (born Katharina Meisel ; born April 11, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) is a German-Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel and Palestine .

life and work

Katharina Galor has been teaching at Brown University in the USA since 1998, where she is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies. In 1985 she graduated from Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. In 1989 she obtained her maîtrise in art history and archeology at the University of Aix-Marseille in France with the work Les sols de mosaïques en Palestine pendant l'époque du roi Hérode le Grand . She received her Diplôme d'études approfondies in art history and archeology at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1991 with the thesis "La culture des Juifs dans la Rome antique". In 1996 Galor received her Ph.D. in Ancient Art and Archeology from Brown University in Providence , United States with her PhD thesis "Domestic Architecture in the Galilee and the Golan during the Roman and Byzantine Periods". In 1997 she completed a post-doctorate in history and archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Galor was visiting professor at the École biblique et archéologique française and at the Rothberg School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA. She was a fellow at the WF Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, the Institute for Archeology at the Hebrew University, the Berlin Antike College, the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Einstein Center Chronoi of the Einstein Berlin Foundation. She was president of the Narragansett Society branch of the American Institute of Archeology from 2006 to 2009 . She speaks German, French, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian and classic Hebrew.

Katharina Galor worked as an archaeologist in France and in the southern Levant with a research focus on ethnicity, religion and gender between 1988 and 2006. Since 2006, its territory has also expanded in the direction of cultural heritage with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

List of excavations

• 1984 Old City of Jerusalem
• 1985 Emek Rephaim , Jerusalem
• 1985–1987 Church of Roquevert, an abandoned village in the Desix Valley , France
• 1988–1990 Old Jewish Quarter of Cavaillon , France
• 1991 Vigna Barberini, Rome , Italy
• 2000 Sepphoris , Israel
• 2001 Co-Leader, Qumran , Israel
• 2002 Director of the Archaeological Field School, Ein Gedi , Israel
• 2003 Deputy Head, Ramat HaNadiv , Israel
• 2004 Deputy Head, Tiberias , Israel
• 2005– Co-director, Apollonia-Arsuf , Israel (joint project of Brown University and Tel Aviv University )

family

Katharina Galor was married to the Israeli economist Oded Galor from 1991 to 2007 . She has been married to the US historian Michael P. Steinberg since 2007 . When he became President of the American Academy in Berlin in August 2016 , she moved back to Germany after 30 years of absence. The couple have seven children from previous marriages. They have been living between New England and Provence since 2018.

Publications (selection)

Books

• with Hanswulf Bloedhorn : The Archeology of Jerusalem. From the Origins to the Ottomans . Yale University Press, New Haven 2013, ISBN 978-0-300-19899-7 .
• Finding Jerusalem. Archeology Between Science and Ideology . University of California Press, Berkeley 2017, ISBN 978-0-520-29525-4 .
• with Sa'ed Atshan: The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. Duke University Press, Durham 2020, ISBN 978-1-4780-0837-8 .

as editor

• Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference held at Brown University, Nov. 17-19, 2002 . In: Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert , Jürgen Zangenberg (eds.): Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah . tape 57 . Brill, 2006, ISBN 1-281-39868-3 , ISSN  0169-9962 .
• Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlements Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah . In: Piotr Bienkowski , Katharina Galor (ed.): Levant Supplementary Series . tape 3 . Oxbow Books, Oxford 2006, ISBN 1-84217-209-3 .
• Katharina Galor, Tomasz Waliszewski (eds.): From Antioch to Alexandria. Recent Studies in Domestic Architecture . Institute of Archeology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-8749614-2 .
• Unearthing Jerusalem. 150 Years of Archaeological Research in the Holy City. In: Katharina Galor, Gideon Avni (Ed.): Proceedings of the Conference held at Brown University November 12-14, 2006 . Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2011, ISBN 978-1-57506-223-5 .
• Katharina Galor, Michaela Bauks and Judith Hartenstein (eds.): 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. In: Journal of Ancient Judaism . Supplements. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-1-57506-223-5 .

Articles and book chapters

• The Roman-Byzantine Dwelling in the Galilee and the Golan - “House” or “Apartment”? In: Archaeologia Transatlantica . tape 18 , 2000, pp. 17-34 .
• Qumran's Plastered Installations: Cisterns or Immersion Pools? In: Christoph Ohlig, Yehuda Peleg, Tsvika Tsuk (eds.): Cura Aquarum in Israel. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region . Tübingen 2002, p. 33-45 .
• Qumran's Plastered Pools: A New Perspective . In: Jean-Baptiste Humbert, J. Gunneweg (ed.): Science and Archeology Khirbet Qumran and 'Ain Feshkha at, . tape 2 . Presses Universitaires de Friborg, 2003, p. 169-198 .
• Home decor in Roman-Byzantine Palestine . In: Stefan Alkier, Jürgen Zangenberg (Hrsg.): Characters from text and stone. Studies towards a New Testament Archeology . Tanz, Tübingen / Basel 2003, ISBN 3-7720-8007-3 , p. 183-208 .
• Domestic Architecture in Roman and Byzantine Galilee and Golan . In: Near Eastern Archeology . tape 66 , no. 1–2 , 2003, pp. 44-57 .
• with Hanswulf Bloedhorn: Jerusalem Through Time . In: DIG Magazine . 2003, p. 10-18 .
• with Jürgen Zangenberg: Qumran Archeology in Transition. Remarks on the International Conference “Qumran — The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Archaeological Interpretations and Debates, ”Nov. 17-19, 2002 at Brown University, Providence RI . In: Qumran Chronicle . tape 11 , no. 1/4 , 2003, p. 1-6 .
• Archeology in Israel. Looking at the past and understanding the future . In: Israel Review . tape 1 , 2003, p. 33-45 .
• Roman and Byzantine Period Ritual Pools on the Sepphoris Acropolis . In: Gilbert Wiplinger (Ed.): Cura Aquarum in Ephesus, Turkey. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region, Ephesus / Selçuk, Turkey, October 2–10, 2004 . tape 1 , no. 12 . Peeters, Leuven / Paris / Dudley (Massachusetts) 2006.
• The stepped water installations of the Sepphoris Acropolis . In: Douglas R. Edwards, C. Thomas McCollough (Eds.): The Archeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity and the 'Other' in Antiquity, Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers . American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston 2007, p. 205-217 , JSTOR : 27799186 .
• with Yizhar Hirschfeld : New Excavations in Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Tiberias . In: Jürgen K. Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, Dale B. Martin (Eds.): Ancient Galilee in Interaction. Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity . Tübingen 2007, p. 248-291 .

Web links

• Brown University website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fellow Prof. Dr. Katharina Galor. berliner-antike-kolleg.org, accessed February 20, 2017 (American English). 
2. ^ Katharina Galor: Profile Katharina Galor. (PDF; 75 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Brown University. September 7, 2001, archived from the original on September 19, 2015 ; accessed on February 20, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Katharina M. Galor's Research. (No longer available online.) In: ResearchConnection. Brown University, formerly the original ; Retrieved February 20, 2017 (American English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ Elisabeth Binder: Michael P. Steinberg, the new president, introduces himself . In: Der Tagesspiegel . 2016 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on February 21, 2017]).