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Eric H. Cline听is Professor of Classics and Anthropology, Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute, and former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University, in Washington DC. With degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, he is an active field archaeologist with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey experience, including ten seasons at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel and eight seasons at Tel Kabri, also in Israel, where he is currently Co-Director. His 2014 book听1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed听was considered for a Pulitzer Prize.听He is the author or editor of 20 books, which have been translated into sixteen languages, as well as nearly 100 articles, and several recorded lecture courses.

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Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney听is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Cooney鈥檚 research in coffin reuse, primarily focusing on the 21st Dynasty, is ongoing. Her book听Recycling for Death听will appear in the coming year with American University Press in Cairo. This research investigates the socioeconomic and political turmoil that has plagued the period, ultimately affecting funerary and burial practices in ancient Egypt. Her latest book,听When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, was published in 2018 by National Geographic. Her next book,听The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World听appears with National Geographic in 2021.

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Jennie Ebeling听is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville and co-director (with Norma Franklin) of the Jezreel Expedition in Israel. A former Fulbright fellow, she has been awarded fellowships from the NEH, the Lady Davis Trust, and the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem for research in Israel and Jordan. Ebeling served as an 17吃瓜Trustee for nine years and Vice President (Membership) for three and received the Charles U. Harris Service Award in 2013. She currently edits ASOR鈥檚 Archaeological Report Series. Ebeling is the co-editor of four volumes and the author of听Women鈥檚 Lives in Biblical Times听(T&T Clark, Int鈥檒, 2010).

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Ahmad Emrage听is ASOR鈥檚 representative for heritage activities in Libya (East), Dr. Emrage manages ASOR鈥檚 cultural heritage grants and activities in the eastern area of Libya. He also serves as a senior advisor for ASOR鈥檚 work throughout Libya and North Africa. Emrage holds the B.A. and M.A. degrees in Archaeology from University of Benghazi, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. During the 2019鈥�20 academic year, Emrage held a Fulbright Fellowship to teach courses on Libyan cultural heritage at Oberlin College (Ohio, USA).

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Lawrence (Larry) T. Geraty, President Emeritus, Director of the Foundation Board and Associate Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at La Sierra University, has been engaged with Near Eastern archaeology and with 17吃瓜and its affiliate schools for more than five decades. In this time, he has taken on leadership roles as 17吃瓜President from 2002 to 2006 and by serving on the 17吃瓜Board through 2016 and acting as an Honorary Trustee since then. Larry has also served as ACOR trustee (1976-2002), Secretary-Treasurer (1983) and vice-president (1993). The creation of the newly endowed 17吃瓜Lawrence T. Geraty Community Archaeology Endowment will heighten awareness of cultural heritage by engaging and facilitating partnerships with local communities in heritage protection and community archaeology.

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Felix H枚flmayer听studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and received his PhD in 2010. From 2009 to 2013, he was a researcher at the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute, in Amman (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) and Berlin. From 2013 to 2015, he was the Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. In 2015, he returned to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Felix teaches at the Institute of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Since 2017, he co-directs the Austrian excavations at Tel Lachish (Israel) together with Katharina Streit.

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Katherine Jones听is a statistician and data scientist, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in mathematics at The George Washington University. In her professional work, Kate focuses on quantitative economic analysis; she works on teams which study antitrust and competition effects, often using Big Data.

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Thomas Kline听is a partner at the law firm Cultural Heritage Partners in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for a number of groundbreaking cases, including setting precedent in the law governing recovery of antiquities and Nazi-looted art. Tom advises clients on a wide variety of art and cultural property matters, including ownership, theft, authenticity, breach of contract, and insurance. Since 1989 he has specialized in cultural heritage-related litigation, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, and advice and counseling, representing governments, museums, churches, foundations, and families. Tom is an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University, Museum Studies Program.

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Carol Meyers听received the A.B. with honors from Wellesley College and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. She is currently the Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Duke University. Meyers is the author of more than 450 articles, reports, reference-book entries, and reviews; and she has authored, co-authored, or edited twenty-two books. Her 2013 book,听Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, is a landmark study of women in ancient Israelite society. Meyers has worked on numerous digs since she was an undergraduate, and she has been a staff member and then co-director of several archaeological projects in Israel. She has been a frequent consultant for media productions relating to archaeology and the Bible, including A&E鈥檚 Mysteries of the Bible series, DreamWorks鈥檚 鈥淧rince of Egypt,鈥� NOVA鈥檚 鈥淭he Bible鈥檚 Buried Secrets,鈥� and several National Geographic documentaries.

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Megan A. Perry听is Professor of Anthropology with East Carolina University. She holds degrees from the University of New Mexico (Ph.D.), Case Western Reserve University (M.A.), and Boston University (B.A.). Her primary research interests involve investigating human skeletal remains to assess ancient disease, diet, and mobility patterns, in addition to mortuary practices of ancient populations in 1st to 6th century A.D. Jordan. Professor Perry has been working on archaeological projects in Jordan for over 25 years, and she is on the Board of the American Center of Overseas Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan.

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Debora Heard听is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago specializing in Nubian archaeology and Egyptian history and language. Her current research compares the inscriptions and iconography of Kushite temples dedicated to the gods Amun and Apedemak. For more than a decade, she has given public lectures on various aspects of ancient Nubian society, particularly the role of royal women in Kushite society. A member of several archaeological and ancient studies organizations, she is the organizer and a founding member of the newly-launched William Leo Hansberry Society, which is committed to providing African-descended people pathways to careers in ancient Nile Valley and Northeast African Studies.

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William Raynolds听is Co-director of the Garden Collection at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Egypt), a consultant for the World Monuments Fund (Haiti), the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the American Archaeological Mission in Libya, and Co-Director of 17吃瓜Cultural Heritage Initiatives. Following his time at Yarmouk University (Jordan), where he was a Fulbright Fellow affiliated with the Department of Archaeology, Mr. Raynolds completed his MSc. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, New York (2009).

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Christopher Rollston听(MA, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University) is Professor of Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures at George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), where he is Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His research focuses heavily on writing and literacy in the world of the Bible, ancient scribal education, ancient Israelite religion, modern forged inscriptions. He has lectured and published widely in the field. For six years, he co-edited (with Eric H. Cline)听BASOR. Rollston鈥檚 volume entitled听Forging History in the Ancient World of the Bible & the Modern World of Biblical Studies听is forthcoming with Eerdmans.

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Stuart Swiny:听Born in Scotland, and educated in France and England, Professor Swiny completed his doctoral degree at the London University, Institute of Archaeology. He has conducted archaeological and anthropological research in Iran, Afghanistan, Cyprus, and has also excavated in France, Turkey (underwater), and Egypt. Swiny served as longtime Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI). In 1996, he was appointed professor in Classics and Anthropology at the University at Albany, and later served as director of the Institute of Cyrpriot Studies. Swiny, archaeologist whose work on Cyprus now spans six decades, is currently the Curator of the Sawin Museum in Dover, MA.