Aaron A. Burke is Assoc. Prof. of the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant in the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA where he is also a faculty member of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

Martin Peilstöcker is Research Associate with the seminar for Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany. He served formerly as the senior Research Archaeologist (1994–2013) for Jaffa with the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Associate Directors

The project’s associate directors, who are affiliated with the project’s principal institutional partners, represent the project's interests and seeks ways for the project to fulfill its research objectives.

Katherine Strange Burke is a Research Associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and the Islamic and Crusader ceramicist for the project.

William Schniedewind is Prof. of Biblical Studies & Northwest Semitic Languages, and Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UCLA. He also serves as the project's Northwest Semitic epigrapher.

Shelley Wachsmann is Meadows Professor of Biblical Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University. He is PI of the Ioppa Maritima initiative.

Wolfgang Zwickel is Prof. of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany.

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Advisory Committee

Gideon Avni, Director of Excavations and Surveys, Israel Antiquties Authority

Timothy Harrison, Prof. of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto

Ronny Reich, Prof. of Archaeology, Haifa University

Charles Stanish, Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA; Prof. of Archaeology, Anthropology Department, UCLA

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Field Staff

Nadia Ben-Marzouk, Excavation supervisor. Graduate student, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Andrew J. Danielson, Excavation supervisor. Graduate student, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Jacob C. Damm, Excavation supervisor. Graduate student, Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, UCLA

Martina Haase, Excavations supervisor. Graduate student, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Amy B. Karoll, Excavation supervisor. Graduate student, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

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Specialists

All specialists who have contributed thus far to joint UCLA-IAA work in Jaffa are listed alphabetically here.

Jacco Dieleman, Egyptologist. Assoc. Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, UCLA

Felix Höflmayer. Radiocarbon and Chronology Specialist. The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago

Brett Kaufman, Metals Analyst. Graduate student Archaeology Program, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA

Andrew Koh, Residue Analyst. Director of ARCHEM. Assistant Professor, Brandeis University

Robert Kool, Numismatist. Coin Department, Israel Antiquties Authority.

Krister Kowalski, GIS Analyst. Graduate student, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany.

Inbar Ktalav, Archaeomalocologist. Contract researcher

Omri Lernau, Fish Analyst. Institute of Archaeology, Haifa University

Brita Lorentzen, Dendrochronology Analyst. Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University

Ed Maher, Faunal Analyst. North Central College, Naperville, IL

Andrea Orendi, Botanical Analyst. Tübingen University.

William Schniedewind, NWS Epigrapher. Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, UCLA

Tzvika Shacham, Cultural Historian. Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

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