About Prof. Galor

Katharina Galor is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in the visual and material culture of Israel-Palestine. She has excavated in France, Italy, and at various sites in Israel. In addition to her many years of teaching at Brown, she has also taught at the Hebrew University and the Ecole biblique et archéologique française in Jerusalem, at Tufts University and at RISD in the US, and most recently at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her publications include The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn; Yale University Press, 2013) and Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology Between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017). She is currently working on two book projects, one on Jewish women in visual and material culture, and a second on Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin (the latter in collaboration with Sa’ed Atshan of Swarthmore College). Contact her at katharina_galor@brown.edu if you have questions about her course.

Course Description

Reviews the discoveries and related scholarship of ancient synagogues, churches, and mosques in ancient Palestine. Focuses on their architectural and decorational as well as their spiritual and religious characteristics, and examines how those institutions influenced each other throughout their history of development.