Timothy P. Harrison, a renowned academic leader and scholar with decades of research experience in the Middle East, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC), effective Sept. 1, 2023
He also will serve as a professor in UChicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College.
U.Chicago alum, Timothy P. Harrison, AM’91, PhD’95, is currently a professor of near Eastern archaeology at the University of Toronto. He focuses his research on the rise of early social complexity in the ancient Near East, specifically the complex societies of the Bronze and Iron Age of the Levant. He has more than 35 years of experience conducting field research, primarily in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
Harrison's publication project with the White Levy Program was first sponsored in 1997 and published in 2004:
https://whitelevy.fas.harvard.edu/publications/megiddo-3-final-report-stratum-vi-excavations