Enter the Religious Studies Department essay contest! We are now taking submissions for this year’s R. Thomas Schaub Religious Studies essay contest. Follow the link for full guidelines.

Please read and follow the full set of guidelines, but the basics are that the paper needs to be 8–15 pages in length (not counting title page or bibliography) and must be academic—that is, scholarly in nature. The deadline for submissions is May 8, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. in the Religious Studies Department office, Sutton 452.

We will be giving prizes to the top three papers. Winners will receive gift certificates to the Co-Op in the amounts of $150, $75, and $50 for the top three papers respectively.

So send in your essays—your faculty judges will be excited to read your work!

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Following the fair will be a free yoga class from 4:00–4:30 and a free meditation class from 4:30–5:00. We will be promoting wellness in a broad spectrum, focusing on the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects on both the personal and community levels. We wanted to bring it to your attention, especially as an excellent extracurricular opportunity for students.

Several local organizations promoting wellness will be offering information about their goals and services. Healthy refreshments will be donated by our local Pita Pit!

A $5 donation is suggested, and all donations collected will go directly to Four-Footed Friends, the local no-kill animal shelter. We really hope you will join us for a day of healthy fun!

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Her poster was titled “Lithic Analysis: The Raw Materials Present in the Lithic Artifacts of the Johnston Site (36ln2).”

Michele is an honors student with an Anthropology major in the Archaeology track, who minors in Religious Studies. Michele has been a McNair Scholar since 2011, and was recently accepted into several Ph.D. programs in Archaeology/Anthropology. She is an alternate for a Fulbright scholarship to Cardiff University in Wales, and has also been accepted into Binghamton University and the University at Buffalo. It will be a tough choice to decide which school’s program to enter next year, but she is hopeful that the available graduate funding and the possibility of a Fulbright award will ease her decision.

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Clark is majoring in Religious Studies, and is on the honors track of that major.

The McNair Scholars program serves undergraduates who are first generation and income disadvantaged of any racial background, and minorities underrepresented in higher education, with a strong commitment to pursue graduate studies.

Clark’s goal after graduating from IUP next year is to enter a Ph.D. program in early Christianity or ancient Near Eastern studies. His particular interest at present is Gnosticism. He ultimately hopes to become a professor.

The trip will be on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The bus will leave the HUB parking lot at 8:00 a.m., returning at midnight. Cost of the trip is $16 per person (cash only), and everyone is welcome. In order to register for the trip, please bring your payment to 452 Sutton.

For more information, please see Theresa Smith or e-mail her at tsmith@iup.edu.

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The Ifa religion is related to the Yoruba people in the Benin region of West Africa. Spiritually based and extremely rooted in rich tradition, it is definitely worth getting to know more about.

Come expand your knowledge of the world with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

This event is cosponsored by the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion and the Religious Studies Department.

Morales, a professor of world religions and Islamic studies, discussed Sikh beliefs and practices and working with religious diversity in America.

The talk was prompted by the desire of the Indiana U.U. community to better understand the Sikh religion, given current discrimination and violence directed against Sikhs in the United States.

The Religious Studies Department works to foster better education and more peaceful interactions among people reflecting differences of all kinds, both in the classroom and in the communities we serve.

Click here to visit the Unitarian Universalist’s webpage on the event.

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The talk will be held in McElhaney Hall, room 206, from 3:30–4:45 p.m., and all members of the campus community are invited to attend.

Downie is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies.

The talk will be held in McElhaney Hall, room 206 from 3:30–4:45 p.m. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.

Barstow is a visiting assistant professor of Religion at Wofford College and was invited by the IUP Department of Religious Studies.

The talk will be held in McElhaney Hall, room 206, from 3:30–4:45 p.m. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.

Scott is the Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Villanova Center for Liberal Education at Villanova University.

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The RLST Club and the CSCR will be planning for events and trips for this semester.

To purchase yours at the bargain price of $10 ($1.50 of which goes to the Religious Studies Club), visit the Religious Studies Department office, 452 Sutton Hall, during regular office hrs. (8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.).

Please cash only!

Represent with pride!

I hope your semester is starting off on the right foot! We will be having a Religious Studies Club meeting next Tuesday, February 19, at 7:00 p.m. outside Java City in the library.

We’ve got a few exciting things for the semester planned, including tabling in the library, a panel on created worlds, and a karaoke fundraiser!

But we’re really trying to knock this semester out of the park. So I want everyone to bring two ideas with them about either fundraisers or activities we can do! The last meeting we tossed around the idea of having a movie night fundraiser around Easter as well.

I can’t wait to hear your ideas! Don’t forget to buy your departmental T-shirts in the office from Linda.

Braving the cold weather were several members of the department and their families, longtime friend Sherrill Begres (professor emeritus of the Department of Philosophy), Kwasi's wife Rose, and his two sons, Kwasi and Asanti.

After dinner, Terri Smith presented Kwasi with a farewell gift of a memento box inset with an image of Sutton Hall. She and others then spoke of their happy memories with Kwasi and their best wishes to him and Rose for a long and wonderful retirement. Kwasi and Rose will remain in the area for a time, but eventually will return to Ghana, where they have a house.

Kwasi and Rose with retirement gift

The Yirenkyi family: Kwasi Jr., Kwasi, Rose, and Asanti

Terri Smith leading the farewell

(photos provided by Sherrill Begres)

We'll meet outside Java City and go to a quiet classroom to conduct elections for the next year, discuss upcoming trips, and throw around ideas for this semester.

There will be also little goodies to welcome everyone into the new semester.

We hope to see you there!

Downie summarized some important research findings on how people learn and why some types of information are easier than others to remember or learn. She challenged common assumptions and misperceptions about learning and emphasized why a community atmosphere in classes and on campus is so important in the learning process.

Please meet inside the entrance doors, and we’ll go to a classroom. We will be discussing trip ideas, fundraising, and electing a new president for next year! We will be electing the president at this time so that they have a chance to observe and ask questions while the vets are still here, but he or she will not officially take office until the Fall.

So join us with some great ideas, and let’s have an awesome semester!

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Her presentation, “Stepping Back to Go Forward,” was on designing in class critical thinking activities in World Religions courses.

After establishing the importance of respectful dialogue across religious diversity, Downie stepped into moderating role. For the rest of the lively and well-attended session, students shared their religious beliefs and asked each other questions about their religious practices and traditions.

Religious Studies Party
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Location: Breezedale
Start Time: 4:30 p.m.
End Time: 6:30 p.m.

Join us in saying fond farewell to Kwasi Yirenkyi, who retires at the end of this semester. For 26 years, he has been a very valued member of our department. We are deeply grateful to Kwasi for his dedication to our program and students. He will be sorely missed! We'll gather to celebrate Kwasi's much-deserved retirement and wish him and his wife, Rose, all the best in the fulfillment of their hopes and dreams. 

We'll also recognize our graduating seniors; our office staff; and the winner of the Fabiny Scholarship, Gabrielle Kennedy.

In “Latino Muslim by Design: Reductive Binaries in American News Media,” Morales examined representations of Latino Muslims in news media and responses to these productions.

Since the mid-1970s, Latino converts to Islam have been forming communities in metropolitan areas including New York and Los Angeles. Conservative estimates of the number of Latino Muslims in the United States range between 40,000 and 94,000. Although modest in number, Latino Muslims attract quite a bit of journalistic and new media attention and raise important questions regarding two highly stigmatized groups in American media: Latinos and Muslims.

Morales focused on news coverage of Antonio Martínez’ attempted bombing of a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., in December 2010. The event prompted journalistic stories that questioned if there was a connection between Latino “nature” and radical religiosity. Additionally, many stories concluded that the Internet played a significant role in the radicalization of Martínez. In response to such negative news coverage, much Latino Muslim-produced media has taken a reactive and sometimes combative character.

In his presentation, Morales critiqued the “you are either a good or a bad Muslim” framework produced by both news coverage and Latino Muslim media and called for more complex understandings of dynamic communities, rather than accepting reductive media binaries.

The paper concerned the Egyptian Papyrus Amherst 63, which is a long text in the Aramaic language but in Demotic Egyptian script. It dates to the fourth or third centuries BCE and contains a wide variety of compositions, many of which prominently feature the Mesopotamian goddess Nanaya. The papyrus most likely reflects the religious, cultural, and literary traditions of several disparate groups of Arameans or Aramaic speakers originally from Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine who had taken refuge in the same communities in Egypt in the first millennium BCE.

Holm is editing the papyrus as a whole for a volume on Aramaic literary texts for the Society of Biblical Literature’s series “Writings from the Ancient World,” which will go to press in Spring 2013.

Gabrielle Kennedy is a junior at IUP majoring in Religious Studies. She plans to graduate in 2014.

At IUP, she is a member of the Religious Studies Club, the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion, the Spirit of the Oak, and Pride. She is also president of the Unitarian Universalist student group at IUP and currently works as a religious education assistant at her church, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Indiana.

Gabrielle has always been concerned with helping people and is fascinated with other cultures. She spent last year studying abroad in Derry, Ireland, and she loved it so much that she intends to return for a visit there over Winter break. While her ultimate career goal is to become a Unitarian Universalist minister, she may decide to join the Peace Corps or a similar organization for a period of service after she graduates.

The Fabiny Scholarship will help fund her travel and her studies to complete the Religious Studies major. “I really love the Religious Studies program,” she says, “the professors are really great, and the other students are really neat.”

The event will be held at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 21, at the Sunflower Yoga Studio (580 Philadelphia Street, Suite 104, Indiana, PA).

We seek a scholar who is committed to undergraduate liberal arts education, and who specializes in an aspect or aspects of the history, writings, or traditions of Christianity. In addition to upper level courses in his or her specialty, the person to be hired will also be expected to teach introductory courses in religious studies, such as World Religions and Introduction to Religion.

For a full description of the position, including qualifications, responsibilities, and how to apply, please visit Employment at IUP.

The entire university community is invited.

The Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Religious Studies Club invite everyone to a celebration of the life of Kipp Seelhorst on Sunday, October 7, 2012. Kipp, who was majoring in Religious Studies at IUP, passed away on May 7.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

First Annual Kipp Seelhorst Lecture: “Sewing a Rich Story in Sovereignty with the Land”

• Presented by Andrew Steed, Celtic bard and pilgrimage guide
  A wonderful journey into exploring stories and how the earth authentically supports us when we listen to the wisdom of her song.
• 2:00 p.m.
• Wallwork Hall, room G 98

Memorial and Celebration with Music, Fire Circle, Drum Circle, and Food

• 3:30 p.m.
• Plaza between Wallwork Hall and Sutton Lawn

The next meeting will be on September 25 at 8:00 p.m. in room 210 of Stabley Library. Come join us to discuss various religious traditions and their relevance in contemporary society.

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This scholarship of $500 is available to all Religious Studies majors (including double majors) who have junior standing (i.e., have already completed at least 60 and no more than 89 credits) and a cumulative g.p.a of at least 3.00 in the university and within the major. This application must be submitted in the Religious Studies office by Monday, October 1. No late applications will be accepted.

One student will be chosen from the pool of candidates.

Additional criteria for the award include excellence in at least one of the following areas:

1. Academic achievement
2. Contribution to an atmosphere of religious tolerance on campus and/or in the greater community
3. Active participation in the life of the RLST department.

To pick up an application form or to submit one, please go to the Religious Studies Department office in Sutton 452.

First prize and a Co-op gift certificate worth $150 went to Jessica Danyi for her essay entitled “Cooking Enlightenment: A Concentration on the Time-Being.”

Second prize and a Co-op gift certificate worth $100 went to Heather Black for “Evaluating the Philosophical Foundation of Neopaganism.”

Third prize and a Co-op gift certificate of $75 went to two students this year: Clark Aitkins for “A Comparison of Two Eves in Christianity,” and Theresa Hoffmann for “Buddhism in China: How Confucianism Unexpectedly Paved the Way.”

Congratulations to all of these students for their fine work!

This group has traveled throughout the United States creating such mandalas at universities and top museums, including the Smithsonian.

A mandala is an abstract representation of the universe. Once the mandala is done on October 31, it will be left on display for an hour and then swept up.

The mandala will be made in the Ohio Room in the HUB. When you come to watch the monks make the mandala, be sure to take advantage of all the supplementary activities that are also offered: you can use the same instruments as used by the monks to participate in the community sand art; or you might create a “peace flag” to be hung from the ceiling of the Ohio Room (more than 3,000 such flags will hang from the ceiling by the end of the week); if you like doing puzzles, then work on the three mandala puzzles available; or, if you like to color, then fill in one of the mandala coloring patterns.

The opening ceremony for the mandala is Monday, October 24, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. The concert of Tibetan music and dance is on October 29 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. The closing ceremony, in which the monks sweep up the mandala and pour the sand in a local creek, will be Monday, October 31, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

A full schedule of events is available on the Mystical Arts of Tibet Outreach page. More information about the performance may be found on the Lively Arts website.

Contact Stuart Chandler (chandler@iup.edu) if you have any questions or would like to bring a group to see the mandala.

This event is sponsored by: Committee for the Studies of Culture and Religion, The Lively Arts, Department of Religious Studies, Office of International Education, Center for Student Life, Six O’Clock Series, Asian Studies Committee, Asian Studies Club, Religious Studies Club, and Student Cooperative Association.

Dr. Holm’s work is a study of the episodic nature of the Book of Daniel in the Bible; in addition to four discrete visions, Daniel contains six independent court tales brought together into a collection.

The monograph seeks to compare Daniel chapters 1–6 first to an explicit definition of the story-collection genre, which is best-known from medieval European literature in books such asThe CanterburyTales, but which first appeared in the EgyptianTales from King Cheops' Court from the second millenium BCE. It then sets Daniel against the context of story-collections and other related material in the ancient Near East and its environs.

The volume is especially unique in its inclusion of Egyptian court tales as parallels to the biblical Daniel courtier stories and in proposing a new understanding of the composition of the Book of Daniel.

Eisenbrauns is the foremost publisher of the ancient Near East and biblical studies in the United States.

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The competition is open to all IUP undergraduates, and is not restricted to papers from or related to a course taught by a Religious Studies Department professor.

There are three prizes: $150, $100, and $75 in Co-op gift certificates, awarded to the first, second, and third place winners, respectively. All three winning essays will published electronically on the department website.

More detailed list of the general guidelines

The R. Thomas Schaub Religious Studies Essay Contest was established in 2005 as a tribute to R. Thomas Schaub, emeritus professor in the Department of Religious Studies at IUP. Professor Schaub taught courses on Biblical Studies and on Palestinian Archeology until his retirement from IUP in January 1999. He is a renowned scholar of the archaelogy of the Dead Sea Plains, and continues to work in the field.

The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce that the 2010–2011 Emily A. Fabiny Memorial Scholarship was recently awarded to Adina K. Disney.

Adina is the daughter of Debby and Marty Disney, of Baltimore, although she also considers Israel, where she lived for a year, as a second home. She is a sophomore (with junior standing) with a triple major in Religious Studies, International Studies, and Asian Studies, as well as a minor in Anthropology. She plans to graduate in 2013.

Adina is the founder and president of the Jewish Student Union. “I want people to understand about minority religions,” Disney explains. “I think there are a lot of misconceptions, and I would like to impact a few students about other people.”

She also serves as secretary and treasurer of the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion, where she works “to promote religious and cultural awareness on campus.”

“I thoroughly believe in religious minorities becoming a more prominent aspect of IUP campus,” she added. “I hope others soon gain momentum too in order to create awareness and knowledge about the differences people have through their religions.”

Since she is a strong believer in the importance of experiential learning, Adina plans to use the Fabiny Scholarship to help her to travel to Scotland this summer. There, she will be taking Dr. Theresa Smith’s class “Experiential Studies in Religion: Sacred Sites of Scotland,” a special topics course focusing on religious sites from the prehistoric to contemporary eras.

Adina receives this scholarship with the deepest gratitude and appreciation, for it will give her not only an understanding of religions with which she has had little experience, but also a deeper insight into a region of the world she has studied through International Studies.

Find more information on the Emily A. Fabiny Memorial Scholarship.

RLST 481 (Experiential Studies in Religion: Sacred Sites of Scotland) is an upper-level Religious Studies course offered during the Summer pre-session (May 9–May 30, 2011).

It will include a number of day and overnight trips throughout Scotland to religious sites from the prehistoric to contemporary eras and from ancient Pagan, Neo-Pagan/New Age, and Christian traditions. While we will live and travel together, students will also have some free time for their own explorations.

The course is limited to ten to twelve students, who will be required to fill out application forms which are available from Dr Smith (tsmith@iup.edu). Applications and deposits ($300) are due by February 18, 2011, and may be dropped off in the department office (452 Sutton Hall). Please contact Dr. Smith with questions.

Tentative Schedule

May 9 Depart Pittsburgh
May 10-12 Edinburgh
May 13-19 Inverness (Class days and day trips to Loch Ness, Clava Cairns and Findhorn)
May 20-22 Orkney Islands
May 23-27 Kilmartin, Mull and Iona
May 28-29 Travel days
May 30 Arrive home

The University of Nebraska is one of the premier publishers of books in Native American Studies, as well as home to The American Indian Quarterly and Studies in American Indian Literature.

Dr. Smith’s book is being issued in the fall under the press’s Bison Book imprint, responsible for reprints of classic books from various genres.

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The chapter, entitled “Atheism and Secularity in Ghana,” is based on research done in 2008 in Ghana about atheists and nonreligious groups.

In the presentation “How I Got from There to Here: The Journey of a Buddhist Priest,” Trevor Maloney will speak about his spiritual journey and his present life at the Austin Zen Center in Austin, Texas. He will also share with students the compassion and pride he has in his career.

• When: Thursday, April 8, 2010
• Time: 8:00 p.m.
• Where: Johnson Hall Auditorium

“I went to grad school for all the wrong reasons,” thirty-year-old Maloney said. “I didn't know it, but i needed a monastery, not and academic program.... Where does a priest like me fit in? I'm excited to find out!”
—From a recent profile of up and coming Buddist Practitioners in Shambhala Sun.

This event is sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Religious Studies Club. The sponsors of this event would like to thank Rev. Maloney for his time.

General Guidelines

1. The competition is open to all IUP undergraduates and is not restricted to papers from or related to a course taught by a Religious Studies professor, although such papers are encouraged. Unfortunately, however, only one entry per student can be accepted, so students should please choose their best work. Those desiring advice of any kind are encouraged to discuss their essay with a department professor in advance.
2. Style: 5-15 pages in length (excluding cover sheet and bibliography), double-spaced, no wider than one-inch margins, 12 cpi Times font. Use of citations must be consistent throughout, but students may choose from MLA or APA styles.
3. Papers will be judged not only on content and the quality of critical arguments, but also on style and composition. Religious Studies is a diverse set of disciplines, and it is expected that papers on a variety of topics may be submitted—for example, papers on some aspect of a particular religion (Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc.), or on some general approach to religion, philosophy, or sociology of religion, etc. The main expectation, however, is that the paper utilize scholarly methodologies and promote academic discourse.
4. The papers will be judged by a panel of Religious Studies faculty members.
5. Awards will be made at the 2010 Spring semester gathering of the Department of Religious Studies at the end of the semester. There will be three prizes: $150, $75, and $50 will be awarded to the first, second, and third place winners, respectively. In addition, all three winning essays will be published on the department website.
6. Submissions are due on April 28, 2010, by 4:00 p.m. in Sutton 452.

Any questions? Please e-mail Dr. Tawny Holm at tholm@iup.edu.

“Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape,” a two-part essay, attempts to illuminate the rich dialectical conversation that continually occurs between place and individual, and between writer and environment in the Ojibwa life-world.

This scholarship is renewable for three years. Bridget will be pursuing a M.Div. beginning Fall 2010.

Congratulations to Bridget, from the faculty and staff of the Department of Religious Studies.

This presentation was based on her book-length project, “Medicine and Magic: Conversations with an Ojibwe Medicine Woman and a Cornish Villiage Witch.”

Congratulations to Dr. Smith on a very well-received lecture!

The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce that the 2008-2009 Emily A. Fabiny Memorial Scholarship was recently awarded to Carole Walker.

Carole is the daughter of Dean and Stephanie Walker, of Pittsburgh, and is a senior with a double major in Philosophy and Religious Studies as well as a Studio Fine Arts minor. She plans to graduate in May 2010. The scholarship was key in helping her achieve her goal to study abroad and allowed her to visit England with Dr. Theresa Smith, who taught a class there focusing on Sacred Pagan Landscapes of England. Carole has previously served as president for the Philosophy Club and now serves as vice president for both Religious Studies Club as well as the Committee for the Study of Culture and Religion at IUP.

"It is an honor to have received the scholarship and to have been able to use it for this particular trip," Walker said. "I've learned that Emily had hoped to make a similar trip herself—particularly to Cornwall. That meant a lot to me and was something I thought about often while I was there."

About Emily A. Fabiny

Emily Fabiny, of Blue Ridge Trail, Dorrance Township, died in 2002 in a car accident at the age of twenty while returning to campus. She was a 2000 graduate of Crestwood High School and was a member of its girls’ track team. Emily was a sophomore at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she was pursuing a dual major in Journalism and Religious Studies. She was a disc jockey, a producer of radio programs, and a past editor of The Penn.

As many of you know, the Religious Studies Department essay contest was named in honor of Dr. Schaub, a world-renowned Biblical archaeologist and treasured professor emeritus.

Here is a list of some of his work:

Books

• 2003 : Bab edh-Dhra’: Excavations in the Town Site (1975-1981). Reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan. Vol. 2. Part 1: Text, i-xxiv, 650 pp. Part 2 – Plates and Appendixes, 350 pp., CD-ROM includes 9 appendixes and 71 color slides. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, IN (co-editor with Walter E. Rast)

Articles

• 2000 : "The Early Bronze Age I Stratified Ceramic Sequences from Bab-edh Dhra'" (with Walter E. Rast) in Breaking with the Past: Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant, ed. by Graham Philip and Douglas Baird. Sheffield Academic Press. 73-90 (with Walter E. Rast).
• 2000 : "Terminology and Typology of Carinated Vessels of the Early Bronze Age I-II of Palestine," in James Sauer Festschrift. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake,IN. 444-464.
• 2003 : “In Memoriam” Walter E. Rast in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 332., 1-5.
• 2005 : Review of Tel Qashish: A Village in the Jezreel Valley: Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987 in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 338: 58-60.
• 2007 : “Mud-Brick town Walls in EB I-II Jordan and their Significance for Understanding the Formation of New Social Institutions.” Pp. 247-52 In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, IX. Amman: Department of Antiquities.
• 2007 : “Life in the Earliest Walled towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Bab edh-Dhra’ and Numeira. (with Meredith S. Chesson). Pp. 245-52 in Crossing Jordan eds.T. E. Levy et alii. London: Equinox Press.
• 2007 : “Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain: Cemeteries of Feifa, Bab edh-Dhra’ and Khirbet Khanazir (with Meredith S. Chesson). Pp. 253-60 in Crossing Jordan. Eds. T. E. Levy et alii. London: Equinox Press.
• 2008: “The Southern Ghors and The Kerak Plateau in EB IV.” Pp. 101-10 in The Levant in Transition. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual IX. Oxford: Maney Publishing.
• 2008 : “Basalt Bowls in EB IA Shaft Tombs at Bab edh-Dhra’: Production, Placement and Symbol.” Pp. 277-84 in New Approaches to Old Stones. eds. Yorke Rowan and Jennifer Ebeling. London: Equinox.
• 2008 : “Cultural Artifacts of the EB I Tombs” Pp. 25-43 in The EB I Tombs of Bab edh-Dhra’ Jordan, eds. Donald Ortner and Bruno Frohlich. Equinox Press.
• 2009 : “Travelers to a Permanent Abode: Burial Practices of the Early Brozne Age I in the southern Ghawrs of Jordan . Pp. 743-56 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, X. Amman Department of Antiquities.

In Press

“The origins of the Early Bronze Age Culture of the Southern Levant: The Case for Conflict.” In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Paris, 2001. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, IN.

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