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Education: Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Toronto, 1987; M.A., the University of Toronto, 1976; M.A., Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Michigan, 1974; M.F.A., School of Art, Yale University, 1971; B.A., Connecticut College, 1968. Research Interests: Late prehistory of Egypt; the origins of complex societies and early states in northeast Africa: Egypt, Nubia, and northern Ethiopia/Eritrea; the Red Sea trading network in the Bronze & Iron Ages. Honors and Awards: National Geographic Society, Chairman’s Award for Exploration, 1998. Excavations and Fieldwork: Co-director of the joint BU/IUO (Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli) project at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-2002. We excavated a number of sites, including a large elite residence and cemetery on Bieta Giyorgis Hill to the northwest of Aksum, dating to the late 1st millennium BC and 1st millennium AD. We are now working on compiling and editing the publication of the excavations. I am also co-director (with Rodolfo Fattovich) of excavations at the Middle Kingdom port of Wadi Gawasis, on the Red Sea in Egypt. Representative Publications2001 Some remarks on the processes of state formation in Egypt and Ethiopia. Co-author: R. Fattovich. In Africa and Afrcans in Antiquity, E. Yamauchi, ed., pp. 276-290. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press 2000 The emergence of the Egyptian state. In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, I. Shaw, ed., pp. 61-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999 Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge (1999). 1997 Urbanism and the rise of complex society and the early state in Egypt. In Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, L. Manzanilla, ed., pp. 59-86. New York: Plenum 1994 The Egyptian Predynastic: an overview, Journal of Field Archaeology 21: 265-288 1992 Toward an interpretation of the role of ideology in the evolution of complex society in Egypt, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11: 1-24 |
