• Digging at Megiddo and Kabri: GWU Excavations in Israel. GWU Heritage Luncheon, Washington DC; 9 May 2007
• "The Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb." GWU Alumni Association, Philadelphia Chapter; 22 April 2007; North Chevy Chase Elementary School, Chevy Chase, MD; 23 March 2007; GWU Alumni Association, Chicago Chapter; 30 September 2006; GWU Alumni Association, Ft. Lauderdale Chapter; 17 March 2006
• The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: Where Did They Go and Where are They Now? Temple Beth El, Bethesda, MD; 18 March 2007
• Bronze Age Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East: A Reassessment. Presented at “Putting Aegean States in Context: Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe during the Bronze Age” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM; 11-15 March 2007
• Canaanites and Minoans in the Middle Bronze Age Palace at Tel Kabri, Israel. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champagne, Urbana, IL (National AIA Kantor Lecturer); 8 March 2007; University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Chicago, IL (National AIA Kantor Lecturer); 7 March 2007
• Megiddo and Armageddon. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 19 November 2006
• "Minoans in Israel: A Bronze Age Mystery." Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 24 May 2006
• "Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative at Kabri" (co-written/co-presented with Assaf Yasur-Landau, Tel Aviv University). EPOS Conference: “Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology,” UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 20-23 April 2006
• "'A Trout in the Milk': A Brief Reassessment of Mycenaean-Hittite Relations in Light of Recent Discoveries and Hypotheses." Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, NY; 10 March 2006
• "A Questionable Correspondence: The Case of the Missing Ahhiyawa Letters." Conference and workshop on the Mycenaeans and Anatolians in the Late Bronze Age: The Ahhijawa Question; Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 5 January 2006.
• "Minoans and Canaanites at Tel Kabri, Israel." American Friends of the Israel Exploration Society, JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD; 14 December 2005
• "Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace." ASOR Outreach Lecture (part of ASOR annual meetings), Philadelphia, PA; 19 November 2005; Purchase College, Purchase, NY; 13 November 2005; University of Judaism, Los Angles, CA; 7 November 2005; Judaic Studies Dept, American University, Washington DC; 6 October 2005; AIA lecture, Lincoln/Omaha Society, Lincoln, NB; 18 September 2005; Sigma Xi chapter, National Institutes for Standards and Technology (annual banquet), Gaithersburg MD; 10 May 2005; UT Austin Center for Middle East Studies, Austin TX; 24 March 2005; Virginia Festival of the Book 2005, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA; 17 March 2005; ASOR annual meetings, San Antonio, TX; 18-21 November 2004; C. Densmore Curtis Invited Lecture, Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr, PA; 2 April 2004
• "Excavating Armageddon: New Discoveries and Old Debates at Megiddo." Sigma Xi chapter, The George Washington University, Washington DC; 12 May 2005; Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 15 March 2005; Phi Beta Kappa, Washington DC Society; 3 February 2005; American Friends of the Israel Exploration Society, JCC Rockville, MD; 15 December 2004
• "The Battles of Armageddon." Dept of Classics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB; 16 September 2005; Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 15 March 2005; GWU Emeriti Society, GWU, Washington DC; 16 April 2004; AIA lecture, Richmond, VA; 13 November 2003; The First Annual Kayser Lecture. Colonials Weekend, GWU, Washington DC; 18 October 2003; Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington DC; 25 June 2003
• "Troy and the Trojan War." Wesleyan University Classics Dept, Middletown CT; 18 April 2005
• "Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel." Gelman Library, Washington DC; 31 March, 2005
• "Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace." Temple Beth El, Saul Bendit Adult Education, Bethesda MD; 30 March, 6 April, and 13 April, 2005 (3 week course)
• "Troy and the Trojan War: Homer, History, and Hokum." UT Austin Classics Dept, Austin TX; 25 March 2005
• "Black Athena Revisited: Possible Interactions between Egypt and Greece during the Second Millennium BCE." ARCE/DC Society, Washington DC; 21 January (evening) 2005
• "Jerusalem Besieged." GWU Emeriti Society, GWU, Washington DC; 21 January (noon) 2005; Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington DC; 24 June 2003; AIA lecture, Long Island, NY; 30 March 2003
• "Troy as a “Contested Periphery”: Archaeological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Concerning Bronze Age Anatolia." Presented at “Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction;” Atlanta, GA; 17-19 September 2004
• “The Story Behind the Stories: 1) Abraham and the Patriarchs; 2) Moses and the Exodus; 3) David and Solomon; 4) The Ark of the Covenant.” Four lectures during weekend retreat for Temple Shalom at “The Woods,” West Virginia; 23-25 April 2004
• "The Multivalent Nature of Imported Objects in the Ancient Mediterranean World." Presented at the International Conference “Emporia: Mycenaeans and Minoans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean;” Athens, Greece, 14 April 2004 (read for author by J.S. Phillips)
• "Excavating Megiddo: New Discoveries and Old Debates." Graduate Seminar, Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr, PA; 3 April 2004
• "New Names, Old Faces: World Systems Theory and the Economy of the Late Bronze Age Aegean." AIA annual meetings, San Francisco, CA; 3 January 2004
• Co-organizer (with P. Nick Kardulias) — Colloquium: The Role of the World Systems Theory in the Study of Ancient Societies: The Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia as Test Cases. AIA annual meetings, San Francisco, CA; 3 January 2004
• "The Stories Behind the Stories in the Hebrew Bible." Montgomery College, Rockville, MD; 11 December 2003
• "Abraham and Archaeology." St Columba’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC; 24 September 2003
• "Troy and the Early Bronze Age." Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 16 July 2003
• "Early Cities and States in the Ancient Near East: Introduction and Overview." Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 9 July 2003
• "The Ark of the Covenant" "David and Solomon" "Egypt and the Exodus" and "Abraham and the Patriarchs." In From Abraham to the Exodus and Beyond: The Story Behind the Stories, Lecture Series Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; April-May 2003
• "Greece in the Late Bronze Age: Contact, Conquest or Colonization?" Washington Classical Society; Rosslyn, VA; 9 May 2003
• "Treasures of the Dead Sea Scrolls." In Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations, Lecture Series, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 5 March 2003
• "The Trojan War – Myth or Reality?" In Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations, Lecture Series, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 5 February 2003
• "Jerusalem Besieged: Ancient Conflicts, Modern Propaganda." Temple B’nai Tzedek, Potomac, MD; 28 January 2003
• "Atlantis – Fact or Fiction?" In Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations, Lecture Series, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 22 January 2003
• "The Temple Mount Controversy: An Archaeologist’s Perspective." BAS Weekend Seminar, Palm Beach FL; 18 January 2003
• "Jerusalem Besieged: From David to the Romans." BAS Weekend Seminar, Palm Beach FL; 17 January 2003
• "Battles of Armageddon Reprised." BAS Weekend Seminar, Palm Beach FL; 17 January 2003

• Chair, Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures; July 2004-present
• Dean's Council (elected): 2006- (term begins Fall 2006)
• CCAS Research Advisory Council (elected); 2005-present
• University Committee on Research (appointed); 2005-present
• Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Student Appeals Committee (elected); 2002-2005; Chair: 2004-2005
• Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Bylaws Revision Committee; 2004-2005
• Undergraduate Advisor: Archaeology Majors (Fall 2002-present; increase from 10 to 32 majors in first 18 months; now stable at 6-8 declared majors per year)
• Director, George Washington University Archaeological Field School at Megiddo, Israel
• Director/Advisor, GWU/Biblical Archaeological Society Internships in Classics and Journalism
• Director/Advisor, GW Internship at the Smithsonian Institution
• Director/Advisor, GW Internship at the State Department, Cultural Properties Advisory Committee
• Director/Advisor, GW Internship at the Justice Department, Interpol
• Faculty Advisor to GWU Classics Club
• Department of Classics and Semitics Representative to Gelman Library
• Member, Middle Eastern Study Group

• Vice-President (Programs): Feb 2007-present
• Executive Committee: 2004-present
• Committee on Archaeological Research and Policy (CARP): 2003-present
• Nominations Committee: 2004-present
• Development Committee: 2006-present
• Vice-President (Governance): May 2006- Feb 2007
• Committee on the Annual Meeting and Program (CAMP):
• Chair, 2004-2006
• Board of Trustees (elected): 2002-2006
• Academic Master Planning Committee: 2004-2006
• Academic Outreach, Lectures, Honors/Awards, and Regional Societies Committees: Ex Officio, 2004-2006, 2007
• Unprovenanced Texts Committee: 2004-2006
• Program Committee: Chair, 2001-2003; committee member, 1998-2003; Ex Officio, 2004-2006, 2007
• Committee on Publications (COP): 1997-2002
• Dorot Annual Meeting Awards Committee: 2000
• W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Fellowship Committee: 1998-1999
• W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem, NEH Fellowship Committee: 1998-1999

Archaeological Association of America Return to top

• Washington DC Society, Vice-President: 2006-present
• Washington DC Society, Board of Governors: 2003-present
• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award Selection Committee: 2005-present
• Near Eastern Archaeology Interest Group: 2000-present
• Societies and Memberships Committee: 1995-2002
• Professional Responsibilities Committee: 2001-2002
• Society Trustee (elected): 2001-2002
• Chair, Ancient History Committee: 1999-2002; committee member: 1998-2002
• AIA Newsletter Advisory Board: 1998-2002
• Annual Meeting Committee: 1999-2002
• Kershaw Lecturer: 2000-2001
• Local Societies Prize Committee: 1996-1998
• Cincinnati (OH) Society: President 1996-1997, 1998-1999; Program Co-ordinator 1995-1996
• San Joaquin Valley (CA) Society: Founder 1993; Vice-President 1993, 1994

American School of Classical Studies in Athens Alumni Return to top

• Alumni/ae Representative to the Managing Committee: 2002-2005
• Secretary/Treasurer (with D. Harris-Cline): 1997-1999
  

Fresno County Archaeological Society Return to top

• Vice-President for Programs 1993, 1994
• Board of Directors 1992-94

Editorial Work Return to top

• NESTOR: Past Editor of monthly bibliographical Newsletter for Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas: 1996-2000
• Near Eastern Archaeology: Past Editor of "Arti-Facts" section, 1997-2001
• AIA Newsletter:Past Editorial Advisory Board member, 1998-2002
• Archaeology Odyssey: Past Editorial Advisory Board member, 1998-2001

Professional Societies (Past and Current) Return to top

• Archaeological Institute of America
• American Schools of Oriental Research
• American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Alumni Association
• Fresno County Archaeological Society
• American Historical Association (A.H.A.)
• American Oriental Society (A.O.S.)
• American Research Center in Egypt (A.R.C.E.)
• Association of Ancient Historians (A.A.H.)
• British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (B.I.A.A.)
• British School at Athens (B.S.A.)
• Egypt Exploration Society (E.E.S.)
• Society of Ancient Military Historians (S.A.M.H.)
• Fulbright Alumni Association