Hebrew University professor Yosef Garfinkel (“The Yarwhosians?”) has been excavating Sha‘ar Hagolan since 1989. He is the author of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Pottery of the Southern Levant (Hebrew University, 1999). Co-author Michele Miller is also co-director of excavations at Sha‘ar Hagolan, where she has, among other things, conducted field surveys to determine the extent of Yarmukian occupation of the site.
Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, Bruce Kuklick (“My Life’s Shattered Work!”) has written about everything from religion to baseball. His Puritans in Babylon (Princeton University Press, 1996), tells the story of America’s first archaeological expeditions in the Near East, including the 1888–1900 Nippur expedition. He is at work on a study of intellectuals and the Vietnam War.
Thomas Gordon Smith (“Eternal Architecture”) lives in South Bend, Indiana, where he runs his own design firm and teaches at Notre Dame University’s School of Architecture. He has designed residential and institutional buildings from Illinois to Shanghai, and his classically inspired strictures have been featured in Newsweek and Architectural Digest. His Vitruvius on Architecture is scheduled to be published this spring by Monacelli Press. September/October 1999.
A professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, Camille Paglia is a popular essayist and social commentator. She is the author of four books, including the best-seller Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press, 1990).
Hebrew University professor Yosef Garfinkel (“The Yarwhosians?”) has been excavating Sha‘ar Hagolan since 1989. He is the author of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Pottery of the Southern Levant (Hebrew University, 1999). Co-author Michele Miller is also co-director of excavations at Sha‘ar Hagolan, where she has, among other things, conducted field surveys to determine the extent of Yarmukian occupation of the site. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, Bruce Kuklick (“My Life’s Shattered Work!”) has written about everything from religion to baseball. His Puritans in Babylon (Princeton University Press, 1996), tells the story of America’s first archaeological […]
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