Education

2005    Ph.D. in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada.
            Dissertation title: The Middle Epipalaeolithic in Context: Palaeolandscapes and Prehistoric Occupation of Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan.
           
1998    B.Sc. in Anthropology, Honours, First Class Standing
            Co-Specialization in Archaeology and Geology, Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, Canada
            Thesis title: Dating the Torments of the Damned in Hell: VRM Dating of the Romanesque Frieze at Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, UK.

Post-Doctoral Fellowships

2003/4     Halbert Foundation Exchange Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Munk Centre for International Studies, Toronto, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
                Research title: Small Tools, Big Changes: The Transition from Forager to Farmer in the Southern Levant.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Near Eastern Prehistory
• Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic, and Neolithic Periods
• Social Complexity and the Origins of Agriculture
• Lithic Analysis
• Palaeolandscape Reconstruction
• Geoarchaeology and Micromorphology
• Survey
• Site-Formation Processes

Academic Honours and Awards

2002-2004            School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Toronto
2000-2003            University of Toronto Fellowship, Department of Anthropology
1999-2003            Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship
1999-2000            Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (declined)
1998-1999            University of Toronto Open Fellowship
1998                      Northern Studies Training Program (NSTP) Research Grant, Canada
1998                      Mineralogists Association of Canada Student Award
1998                      Peter Bartz Memorial Silver Jubilee Scholarship, Lakehead University
1994-1997            Lakehead University In-Course Scholarship

Teaching Experience

2005                Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, “ARH360Y: Prehistory of the Near East”. This course highlights the archaeological
                        record of the Levant from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, focussing on current issues regarding the rise of agriculture, village life, and urbanism.

2005                Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, “ARH406H: Lithic Analysis”.

2004                Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, “ARH312Y: Archaeological Laboratory”. This course covers basic laboratory and
                        analytical skills in archaeology, with emphasis on measurement and measurement error, research design, modelling, sampling, and quantification.
                        Laboratory sessions include analysis of lithics, pottery, faunal and plant remains, sediments, and radiocarbon dates.

2004                Head Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Scarborough, “ANTA01: Becoming Human”.

1998-2002       Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, “ARH312Y: Archaeological Laboratory”.

Archaeological Experience


2005                           Director of Excavations, Wadi Ziqlab Project, Jordan.
1999-2005                  Laboratory Supervisor, Wadi Ziqlab Project Laboratory, University of Toronto.

Museum Experience

1995-1997       Historical Interpreter/Tour Guide, Old Fort William Museum, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Publications

In preparation    Excavations at a Geometric Kebaran Site in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan.  To be submitted to Annual of the Department of Antiquities of
                        Jordan.

2003                Wadi Ziqlab Survey. In Archaeology in Jordan, edited by S.H. Savage, K.A. Zamora and D.R. Keller. American Journal of Archaeology,
                        107:449-451.

2003                Excavations at a Geometric Kebaran Site in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. Antiquity, 77:295 (with E.B. Banning).

2003                Dhra’ Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report. Levant, 35:1-38 (with I. Kuijt, W. Findlayson, N. Goodale, S. Denis, S. Smith, S. Kadowaki, and
                        T. Aprin).

2002                Middle Epipalaeolithic Sites in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan.  Paléorient, 27(1): 5-19 (with M. Lohr, M. Betts, C. Parslow, and E.B. Banning).

2002                Geoarchaeological Survey and the Epipalaeolithic in Northern Jordan.  Antiquity, 76: 313-314 (with E.B. Banning).

2001                Geoarchaeological Survey in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, vol. 45:61-70 (with E.B. Banning).

2001                Wadi Ziqlab Survey. In Archaeology in Jordan, edited by S. Savage, K.A. Zamora, and D.R. Keller.  American Journal of Archaeology, 105(3):
                        427-429 (with E.B. Banning).

2000                The Romanesque Frieze at Lincoln Cathedral (England) – Primary or Secondary Insertion? Magnetic Considerations. Archaeometry, 42(1):
                        225-236 (with G. J. Borradaile, and M. O’Connor).

1999                Attempts to Date Salt-Making Activity in Iron Age Britain using Magnetic Inclinations.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 26(11): 1377-1389
                        (with G.J. Borradaile, T. Lane, F. Lagroix, T. Lane, P. Linford, and N. Linford).

Conference Papers

2004                “Small Tools, Big Changes: The Transition from Forager to Farmer in the Southern Levant”. Society for American Archaeology in Montreal,
                        Canada, March 31 to April 4, 2004.

2002                “Small Tools in a Big Valley: Recent Work on the Middle Epipalaeolithic in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan”. American School of Oriental Research (ASOR)
                        in Toronto, Canada, November 21-23, 2002.

1998                “VRM dating and its Applications in Archaeology”. 8^th Annual APALA Conference at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada,
                        January 16-20, 1998.

Conference Posters

2002                “A Geometric Kebaran Encampment in Jordan”. Domesticating Space: Landscapes and Site Structure in the Prehistoric Near East,
                        Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 19-20, 2002.

2001                “All the Dirt on Wadi Ziqlab: The Middle Epipalaeolithic in Context”.  Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, USA, April 15-19, 2001.

2001                “New Rules for Small Tools”. Society of American Anthropology, New Orleans, USA, April 15-19, 2001 (with C. Parslow, M. Lohr, and E.B.
                        Banning).

Press Releases

2003                “The Wadi Ziqlab Project”. Munjazāt, a Department of Antiquities of Jordan publication for current archaeological projects in Jordan.

2000-2002        Excavation and Survey in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Yearly press release for the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (with E.B. Banning).

2000                  Survey in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. ACOR Newsletter, July 2000 (with E.B. Banning).

2000                 The Wadi Ziqlab Project, University of Toronto, poster for display at the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan.

Invited and Public Lectures

2004                “Geoarchaeological Investigations in Northern Jordan”. Presented to the Prehistory Section, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
                         Israel.

2004                “The Middle Epipalaeolithic Landscape of Northern Jordan”. Presented to the Department of Archaeology, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

2002                “Recent Work in Wadi Ziqlab. Excavations at WZ 148: A Middle Epipalaeolithic Site in Northern Jordan”. Presented to the Anthropology Students
                        Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

2001                “Earth Science Methods in Archaeology: Geoarchaeology”. Presented to ARH312Y: Archaeological Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto,
                        Canada.

1999                “Archaeomagnetic Applications in Archaeology”. Presented to ARH312Y: Archaeological Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

1998                “Archaeomagnetic Dating in Archaeology”. Presented to ANT3119: Scientific Applications in Archaeology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, 
                        Canada.

Professional Affiliations

Society for American Archaeology
Council for British Research in the Levant