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Timothy Harrison

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
  • 416-978-6600
  • University of Toronto, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Avenue, Room 221, Toronto, M5S 1C1, Canada

BIO

Professor Harrison has conducted over thirty-five years of archaeological field research in the Middle East, primarily around the Eastern Mediterranean littoral (the Levant), in the countries of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. He has directed excavations at the Bronze and Iron Age site of Tall Madaba, in Jordan, and he is currently directing the Tayinat Archaeological Project on the Plain of Antioch in southeastern Turkey. These projects form part of a regional research effort that seeks to shed light on the rise of early complex societies in the Eastern Mediterranean. In 2012, he launched the CRANE Project, an international consortium of researchers and projects conducting research in the Orontes Watershed and Eastern Mediterranean. Professor Harrison has published extensively on the Bronze and Iron Age cultures of the Levant, including four monographs and more than 140 articles and papers. He served as President of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the leading international professional association dedicated to the study of the cultures and history of the Middle East, between 2008 and 2013, and he is currently Chair of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2007 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2002 - Jun 2007
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 1997 - Jun 2002
  • Research Associate
    University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Chicago, United States1995 - 1997
  • Lecturer
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States1994 - 1995
  • Lecturer
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States1993 - 1995
  • Program Archaeologist
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States1991 - 1992

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • President
    American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, United States2008 - 2013

DEGREES

  • Ph.D.
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States1995
  • M.A.
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States1991
  • B.A.
    Wheaton College, United States1987

AVAILABILITY

  • Teaching provision
  • Media enquiries
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Mentoring (short-term)
  • Mentoring (long-term)

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • School of Cities
  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)

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