Katharina Galor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Katharina Galor

Israeli woman archaeologist

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1966

Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Germany, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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About Katharina Galor

Katharina Galor (born 1966) is a German-born Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel-Palestine.
She has been teaching at Brown University since 1998, where she is Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies.
She was educated in Germany (Comenius Gymnasium), France (Université d’Aix-Marseille), Israel (Hebrew University) and the US (Brown University).
She has held visiting teaching appointments at the École biblique et archéologique française and the Rothberg School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at Humboldt University in Berlin, and at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design in the US.
She was a fellow at the W.F.
Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, at the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University, at the Antike Kolleg Berlin, the Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Chronoi Center of the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
She served as President of the American Institute of Archaeology, Narragansett Chapter. Galor worked as a field archaeologist in France and the Levant between 1988 and 2006 with a scholarly focus on ethnicity, religious affiliation, and gender.
Since 2006 her interests have shifted to encompass cultural heritage studies with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Her publications include The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (Yale University Press, 2013; co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn), Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017), and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020; co-authored with Sa’ed Atshan).
In 2018, Galor was awarded a three-year grant from the Leo Baeck Institute to complete her current book project on Jewish women.

Katharina Galor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

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