David Frank Graf
Professor
DIRECTOR OF THE JOINT SAUDI-AMERICAN JURASH PROECT AND THE HELLENISTIC PETRA PROJECT (JORDAN).
Professor David Graf received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is an ancient historian and archeologist specializing of the Greco-Roman world in the Levant and Arabia, Co-editor of the multi-volume Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992), he is the author of Rome and Its Arabian Frontier from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (1997) and more than 130 scholarly articles. He has excavated in Turkey, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. and is currently directing excavations in the ancient Nabataean-Roman city of Petra in Jordan. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Saudi Arabia (2003), a recipient of the Provost's Award for Scholarly Activity (2008), a NEH fellow in Jordan (2014), and is a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. This past year, he was the Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. His most recent publication is on“The Silk Road between Syria and China,” in Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World, volume 3 of The Oxford Roman Economy Project.
Education
| 1979 | Ph.D. History Department University of Michigan |
| 1975 | Department of Near Eastern Languages The University of Michigan |
| 1970 | B.D. McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago |
| 1965 | B.A. Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas |
Professional Experience
| 2004 - | Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami |
| 2001 - 2003 | Director, Program in Classical Antiquity, University of Miami |
| 1995 - 2003 | Professor, Department of History, University of Miami |
| 1990 - 1995 | Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Miami |
| 1986 - 1990 | Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Miami |
| 1983 - 1984 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Montana State University |
| 1982 - 1983 | Visiting Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan |
Honors & Acknowledgements
Member, School of Historical Studies
Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity
Lady Davis Fellowship
Sterling Dow Fellowship
William Fulbright Scholar Award for Saudi Arabia
Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Visiting Scholar, Selwyn College, Cambridge University
Theta Alpha Kappa Honor Society
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars
American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Grant
NEH Summer Research Grant
Senior Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Visiting Scholar (Summer), Wolfson College, Oxford
Max Orovitz Research Grants, University of Miami
General Research Support Grants, University of Miami
Dorot Foundation, New York
US Information Agency Grant for Instruction in the Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
NEH Fellow, American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan
Research Projects
Director, Joint Saudi-Amerrican Jurash (Asir) Project,” (2008- )
Director, “Hellenistic Petra Project:, Jordan (2004-2007)
Director, “Eastern Desert Epigraphical Survey,” Jordan, 1996-2000.
Director, Roman Road Project, Jordan, 1986-1995.
Epigrapher, Zeugma Archaeological Project (Turkey), Director D. Kennedy, 1993.
Survey Staff, Myos Hormos Project (Egypt), Directed by S. E. Sidebotham, l987.
Excavations, Tel Anafa (Galilee), Director S. Herbert, University of Michigan, 1981.
Excavations, Baq'a Valley (Jordan), Director P. McGovern, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
Director, Hisma Survey (Jordan), NEH/ASOR Fellow, Amman, Jordan 1978-80.
Publications
David Graf Rome and Its Arabian Frontier from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (Hampshire, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1998).
David Graf "Royal Road" Encyclopedia of Ancient History
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