Department of Archaeology

David Holmes, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Steven Ortiz, Director, Lanier Center for Archaeology; Professor, Department of Archaeology
Thomas Davis, Chair, Department of Archaeology; Associate Director, Lanier Center for Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Biblical Studies

The Department of Archaeology offers two Graduate Programs, a Master of Arts in Archaeology and Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.

The mission of the overall graduate program in archaeology is to produce students who: 1) have a broad-based training in the Humanities; 2) are introduced to methods and theories in social sciences and their contributions to biblical studies; 3) have practical training in field archaeology and material studies; 4) and are competent to integrate archaeological data into the interpretation of the Bible and other documents of the ancient Near East.