Current Semester
Spring 2013 Courses:
RLST 204IH: Intro to the Hebrew Bible
RLST 499RH: Senior Capstone
Advising: Religious Studies
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10-11:30am (Spring 2013 semester) or by appointment
Office: Wilson 2-161
Email: scohen@montana.edu
Phone: (406) 994-5202
Curriculum Vitae: Click Here
Research Interests
Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant
Urbanization theory
Education
PhD, with distinction, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2000
A.M. in History, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1991
A.B. magna cum laude with Honors in History, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1989
Awards, Honors, and Affiliations
Short Term Professional Development Grant, Office of the Provost, MSU, 2008.
Research Enhancement Award, College of Letters and Science, MSU 2008.
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, MSU, 2008.
Cox family Fund Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, 2007
Scholarship and Creativity Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, MSU, 2006.
Harris Grant/Torch Fund Award, American Schools of Oriental Research, 2003, 2006.
Research Enhancement Award, College of Letters and Science, MSU 2005
Publications Grant. Archaeological Institute of America, 2005..
Associate Fellow, W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, 2002-present.
Archaeological Research and Fieldwork
Tel Zahara Excavations, Israel Director, 2006 – 2009.
Gesher Excavations, Israel. Director, 2002 – 2004.
Affiliations
Member, Governing Board of Trustees, W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, 2006 – present.
American Schools of Oriental Research, 1993 – present.
Archaeological Institute of America, 2005 – present.
Selected Publications
The Excavations at Tel Zahara I: The Roman and Later Remains, ed. S. Cohen.
Boston, MA: Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research. (In press)
Three MB II Burials from Tel Zahara. (With W. Więckowski, Institute of Archaeology,
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland). In Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin. Eds. J. Spencer, A. Brody, and B. Mullins. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. (In press)
Weaponry and Warrior Burials: patterns of disposal and social change in the southern Levant. Pp. 307-319 in The 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12-16 April 2010, R. Matthews and J. Curtis, ed. London: The British Museum and University College London. (2012)
The Middle Bronze Age in Israel/Palestine. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant. Eds. A. Killebrew and M. Steiner. Oxford: Oxford University. (2012)
Terracotta Figurines from the 604 B.C.E. Destruction at Ashkelon. In Ashkelon Volume III, Harvard Semitic Museum Publications. Eds. L.E. Stager and D. Master. (2011)
Cores, Peripheries and Ports of Power: Theories of Canaanite Development in the early Second Millennium B.C.E. Pp. 69-75 in Exploring the Longue Durée: Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager, ed. D. Schloen. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. (2009)
Continuities and Discontinuities: A –Re-Examination of the Intermediate Bronze Age – Middle Bronze Age Transition in Palestine. The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 354: 1-13. (2009)
The Excavations at the MB IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report. (With Y. Garfinkel, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Boston: Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 62. (2007)
Canaanites, Chronology, and Connections: The Relationship of Middle Bronze Age IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt. Harvard Semitic Museum Publications, Studies in the History and Archaeology of the Levant, vol. 3, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. (2002)
