< Previous 10 2007 “An Apology in Defense of Archaeology.” Invited Paper for the Society of American Archaeologists Panel on Imperial Inspections: Archaeologists, War, and Violence, Austin, Texas. 2007 “Artifacts: the Inside Story,” Smithsonian Institution Seminar. 2005 “Deterritorializing the Dead: Early Iron Age Burials in the Central Hill Country,” Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2006 “From Eve to Jezebel, Archaeology and the Bible's Notorious Women” Smithsonian Institution Seminar. 2006 “Relics, Fakes and Forgeries,” Smithsonian Institution Seminar. 2006 “The Archaeology of Persia,” Smithsonian Institution Seminar. 2006 “The Archaeology of the Persian Period in Palestine.” Invited Lecture for the Archaeology Series of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. 2005 “Archaeology in the War Zone: Preservation of Sites in the West Bank.” Invited Lecture for the Archaeology Series of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. 2005 “Text and Trowel: Biblical Cities in Archaeological Context,” Smithsonian Institution Six-Week Seminar. 2005 Invited paper presented at an international conference on the Ottoman House, The Ottoman Houses of Jordan, Haifa, Israel. 2005 Invited Lecture for the Archaeology Series of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Demolishing David: Archaeological Evidence for the United Monarchy. 2005 Invited Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Toward a Post-nationalist Archaeology of the Middle East, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2005 Invited Discussant for Society of American Archaeologists Panel on Archaeology in Politicized Contexts, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2005 Workshop planner and discussant for an invited seminar Against All Odds: Building Shared Heritage through Archaeology in the Israel/Palestine, Los Angeles, California. 2004 Invited Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Antonio, Texas, Writing About Archaeology for the Public. 11 2004 Invited Paper for Conference on Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle East, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2004 “The Days of the Judges,” Invited Lecture for the Archaeology Series of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington. 2003 Invited Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Atlanta, Georgia, Preserving Ottoman Akko: A Program of Community Outreach and Education, Public Archaeology of the Near East Session. 2002 Workshop planner and discussant for seminar on Israeli and Palestinian approaches to the past (Catal Hoyuk, Turkey). 2001 Invited Lecture at Columbia University, New York, Sacred Space in Ancient and Modern Palestine. 2001 Invited Discussant on Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Connectivity in Antiquity Session. 2000 Invited Participant and Consultant, Workshop on the Presentation of the Past in the Holy Land, Ramallah, Palestinian National Authority. 2000 Invited Participant and Consultant, Workshop on Management Planning for Archaeological Sites, Corinth, Greece. 1999 Invited Participant and Consultant, Workshop on Who Was Here First?…And Does It Matter? Beit Jala, Palestinian National Authority. OTHER PAPERS 2016 Paper presented at the Association for Critical Heritage Studies Conference” Muslims at the Gates of Christendom: Statelessness, Hybridity and the Refugee Challenge to European Identity,” Montreal, Canada. 2013 Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, “Heritage and Cultural Diplomacy,” Honolulu, Hawaii. 2013 Forum on Open Access in Publishing, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, “Heritage and Cultural Diplomacy,” Honolulu, Hawaii. 2011 Paper Presented at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, “Applying for Research Grants,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 12 2011 Paper Presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Meeting, Decalogue or Dialogue? The Biblical Past and Middle East Peace, Berkeley, California. 2011 Paper Presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Meeting, Suppressing Ancient Insurgencies–An Archaeological Cover-up, Berkeley, California. 2009 Succession of Empires—Teaching the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2008 Forgotten Pasts: Palestinian Archaeologists Between the Wars, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, Massachusetts. 2002 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boulder, Colorado, Perceptions of Antiquity and the Formation of Modern Resistance Identities, Connectivity in Antiquity Session. 2001 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Nashville, Tennessee, Surveys of Regions Around Excavated Sites: Micro-Regional Surveys Around Tulaylat al-Ghassul, Jordan, Landscape Archaeology Session. 2000 Paper presented at the Landscapes and Politics Interdisciplinary Conference, “The Memory of Iron Age Landscapes,” Edinburgh, Scotland. 1999 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Iconography and Ideology: Animal Figurines from Teleilat Ghassul, Theoretical Approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology. 1999 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ritual Feasting at Teleilat Ghassul, Ancient Food and Foodways. 1998 Paper presented at the Encounters with Ancient Egypt Interdisciplinary International Conference, “Ancient Egypt and the Archaeology of the Disenfranchised,” University College London, England. 1997 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Napa, California, The Occulate Being of Teleilat Ghassul, Art of the Ancient Near East. 1997 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Napa, California, Ghassulian Repaired Pottery, Ceramic Technology. 13 1996 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, The Chalcolithic Period in the Hauran, Archaeology of Jordan Forum. 1995 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ghassulian Pottery: Temper, Temperature and Function, Ceramics and Archaeology. BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 2014 (Continuing) Vice President, Archaeological Institute of America DC Chapter 2011-2013 Society for American Archaeology Ethics Committee 2010-2013 Board, Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, DC Chapter 2007 (Continuing) Biblical Archaeology Lecture Committee, JCC of Greater Washington 2004-2010 Publications Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research 2003-2007 Chair, Awards Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research 2004-2006 Lecture Committee, American Schools of Oriental Research AFFILIATIONS American Anthropological Association American Association for the Advancement of Science American Evaluation Association American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Institute of America Organization of Foreign Service Professionals Society for American Archaeology World Archaeological Congress 14 INTERVIEWS (RADIO, TELEVISION AND INTERNET) 2008 Geopolitics of Archaeology, Worldview, Chicago Public Radio. 2006 Heritage and the Landscape of War, archaeology.org. 2007 Women in the Bible, Interfaith Voices, Washington Public Radio. 2006 Relics, Fakes and Forgeries, Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, CNN. 2006 The Jesus Family Tomb, Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, CNN. 2003 The Archaeology of the Passion, CNN Live Today, CNN. 2001 The Contested City of Jerusalem, Pacifica, San Francisco. 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