Alexander_H._Joffe
Alexander H. Joffe
American archaeologist and historian (born 1959)
Alexander H. Joffe (born 1959) Alex Joffe is an archaeologist and historian of the Near East.[1]
Joffe graduated from Cornell University in 1981 with a B.A in History and received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona in 1991.[2]
From 1980 to 2003 he participated in and directed archaeological research in Israel, Jordan, Greece and the United States.[3]
He participated in fieldwork at Tel Miqne, Tel Dor, Tel Yaqush, Tel el-Hammeh, Beersheva, Tel Rekhesh, Megiddo, Ain Ghazal, and elsewhere. He has written extensively on Near Eastern archaeology. He has been an associate at the Harvard Semitic Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, as well as the Department of Archaeology at Boston University.[2]
Joffe has taught at Pennsylvania State University and SUNY Purchase.[4]
From 2012 to 2022 Joffe was the editor of The Ancient Near East Today, the weekly web magazine of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR).[5]
Joffe married Rachel S. Hallote, the daughter of writer Cynthia Ozick, in 1992.[2] With Hallote and JP Dessel he hosts the podcast This Week in the Ancient Near East.