Andrea Berlin, Co-director of Tel Kedesh

A couple of weeks ago I talked about Sharon Herbert, one of my directors at Tel Kedesh. Now I have the pleasure to introduce my blog to the other director of Tel Kedesh, Andrea Berlin. Andrea and I were both graduate students at the University of Michigan and she has gone on to fame and glory and is now a professor at the University of Minnesotta in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies. She did her dissertation on the Coarse Wares from Tel Anafa, an excavation directed by Sharon Herbert. Since then she has worked on Hellenistic material all over Israel as well as in Egypt, Cyprus and Turkey, most notably (for my viewpoint as a classical archaeologist) at Troy!

Above you see me and Andrea on the Tel at Kedesh after she gave me an update on the site.