Team Members

Timothy Matney
Director, Associate Professor (University of Akron), Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Pennsylvania).

Lynn Rainville
Assistant Director, Assistant Professor (Sweet Briar College), Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Michigan).

OPERATION SUPERVISORS

Kemalettin Köroglu
Op K, Associate Professor (Marmara University), Ph.D. in Ancient History.

John MacGinnis
Op G, Senior Fellow (Cambridge), Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology (Cambridge).

Michael Roaf
Op E and I, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology (University of Münich), D.Phil. in Near Eastern Archaeology (Oxford).

Monica Smith
Op J, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (UCLA), Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Michigan).

SPECIALISTS

Adam Allentuck
Zooarchaeologist, M.A. in Anthropology (University of Manitoba).

John Curtis
Bronzes, Keeper of the Department of the Ancient Near East (British Museum), Ph.D. (Institute of Archaeology, London University).

Timothy Demko
Geomorphologist, Assistant Professor (Univesrity of Minnesota), Ph.D. in Geosciences (University of Arizona).

Lynn Swartz Dodd
Metallurgy, Assistant Professor and Curator (University of Southern California), Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (UCLA).

Ann Donkin
Surveyor, B.Sc. (University of Akron).

Dorian Fuller
Archaeobotanist, Ph.D. (Cambridge).

Jennifer Gilpin
Phytoliths, M.A. (University of Reading).

Haskel Greenfield
Zooarchaeologist, Professor of Anthropology (University of Manitoba), Ph.D. (CUNY-Graduate Center, New York City).

Britt Hartenberger
Lithics, Ph.D. in Archaeology (Boston University).

Birger Helgestad
Registrar, Ph.D. Candidate (University College London).

Azer Keskin
Ceramic Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate (SUNY-Binghamton).

Helen McDonald
Ceramics Research Associate (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), M.A. in Mesopotamian Archaeology (Cambridge).

Kirsi Lorentz
Physical Anthropologist, Assistant Professor of Archaeology (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Cambridge).

Kathleen Nicoll
Geomorphologist, Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and the Environment (Oxford), Ph.D. in Geology (University of Arizona).

Simo Parpola
Epigrapher, Professor (University of Helsinki), Ph.D. (University of Chicago).

Paola Pugsley
Artist, Ph.D. in Archaeology (Exeter University).

David Reese
Shells, Ph.D. (Adjunct Curator, Yale, Peabody Museum of Natural History).

Mandy Reimann
Conservator (FHTW, University of Applied Sciences for Technology, Berlin).

Philipp Schmidt
Conservator (FHTW, University of Applied Sciences for Technology, Berlin).

Diana Stein-Wuenscher
Seals and Hurrians, Lecturer (Birkbeck College, University of London), D.Phil. in Near Eastern Archaeology (Oxford).

Dirk Wicke
Ivory, Ph.D. in Archaeology (University of Munster).

EXCAVATORS

Mesut Alp
M.A. in Archaeology (Ege University).

Peter Bartl
Ph.D. Candidate in Near Eastern Archaeology (University of Münich).

Celine Beauchamp
B.A. (Universite de Bourgogne), professional archaeologist, London.

David Dorren
Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (University of Oxford), professional archaeologist, Scotland.

Sara Kayser
M.A. in Archaeology (University College London).

Mary Shepperson
B.A. in the Historical Archaeology of Egypt & Mesopotamia (Cambridge).

Jeff Szuchman
Ph.D. Candidate in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations (UCLA).