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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Schmidt

Current affiliations

  • Junior professorship of Biblical Archaeology (Prof. Schmidt)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
  • Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)
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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Archaeology of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages of the Southern Levant and Mesopotamia
  • Iconography and visual culture of the Southern Levant and Northern Syria
  • Technology, crafts and raw materials with a special focus on glass
  • Archaeometry (special focus: glass)

Academic Education

2016Doctorate (Dr. Phil.) at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, title of dissertation "Production, Distribution and Significance of Glass in Iron Age Mesopotamia. An Archaeological – Philological – Archaeometrical Approach"
2013 - 2016Doctoral studies as research assistant at the Graduate School "Distant Worlds" at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and visiting researcher for one term at the University College London
2012Magister Artium in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich with the thesis: „Glasierte Gefäße in Obermesopotamien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung neuassyrischer Beispiele“
2007 - 2012Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology (major), Near Eastern Languages and Prehistoric Archaeology (minors) at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and the Université Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris

Work Experience

since 2023Professor for Biblical Archaeology/ Archaeology of the Southern Levant at the University of Münster
2022 - 2023Director of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem
2020 - 2022Cultural Heritage Project "Livelihood Support through Cultural Heritage Development. Creating decent jobs through employment-intensive cultural heritage conservation methods in the northern districts of Jordan and Iraq" in cooperation with UNESCO and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), supported by the EU MADAD Fund: Management of the Gadara/ Tall Zarʿa component.
2018 - 2022Excavation director of the excavations at Tall Zar‛a, Jordan, by the GPIA Amman, funded by the German Archaeological Institute.
2016 - 2022Director of the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology of the Holy Land (DEIAHL) in Amman
2016 - 2022Administration of the DOJAM project "Documentation of Objects in Jordanian Archaeological Museums"
2019 - 2021Seminars at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Vorderasiatische Archäologie)
2018 - 2019Organisation and coordination of the special exhibition "Tall Zirā‛a - Mirror of Jordan's History" at the Jordan National Museum, Amman, funded by the Federal Foreign Office, Regula Pestalozzi Foundation
2016 - 2017Excavation project "Eastern Badia Archaeological Project", Jordan, with a focus on the Late Neolithic period: trench supervisor (Directors: Prof. Y. M. Rowan, Oriental Institute Chicago, Prof. G. Rollefson, Whitman College)
2013 - 2016Research assistant at the Graduate School "Distant Worlds" at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich (PhD)
2012 - 2015Excavation project Dülük Baba Tepesi (Doliche) of the Asia Minor Forschungsstelle in Münster: Specialist for Iron Age pottery (Director: Prof. E. Winter)
2008 - 2010Excavation project Tell Halaf, Syria: from 2009, area supervisor in the area of the Neo-Assyrian north-eastern palace (Directors: Dr. L. Martin, Prof. M. Novák)
2008 - 2009Excavation project Sirkeli Höyük, Turkey: field supervisor (Director: Prof. M. Novák)

Functions and Memberships

since 2023Member, Editorial board, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS)
since 2021Member of the Board, International Relations, German Society for the Exploration of Palestine (DPV)

Publications

A Middle Bronze Age fortification and late Iron Age destruction: The 2021 excavations at Tall Zarʿa in northern Jordan
Schmidt, K.  (2026)
In: Zeitschrift für Orientarchäologie, 17.
Research article (journal)
Craftsmanship Across Places: A Late Bronze Age Jewelry Mold from Tall Zarʿa and Its Ties to Byblos
Schmidt, K. (2026)
In: M. J. Adams; Y. Gadot; J. Uziel; Y. Zelinger (eds.), From artifact to history: Studies in the Hellenistic and Roman world and beyond. In honor of Andrea Berlin. (kein Verlag angegeben).
Research article (book contribution)
Revisiting the Stratigraphy and Dating of the Iron Age Monumental Residence on the Amman Citadel
Schmidt, K. (2026)
In: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästinavereins, 2026/1.
Research article (journal)
Farbige Könige und Götter der Eisenzeit. Wie ein Synchrotron in Jordanien verlorene Farben sichtbar macht
Schmidt, K. (2026)
In: Antike Welt - Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte, 2026/2.
Review article (journal)
Ausgrabungen auf der Zitadelle von Amman. Zwischen Routine und Entdeckung
Schmidt, K. (2026)
In: Antike Welt - Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte, 2026/1.
Review article (journal)
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Projects

EXC 2060 A3-42 - Mountain-top sites in Edom: Disentangling politics, religion and economy in an Iron Age tribal kingdom
Duration: since 01/01/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Amman Archaeological Project (ammap)
Duration: since 01/11/2023
Type of project: Own resources project
Roads to Mansur (RMP)
Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2023
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster
Support to livelihoods through cultural heritage development. Creating decent job opportunities through Employment-intensive methods applied to the…
Duration: 01/12/2020 - 30/01/2022
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster
Excavation director of the excavations at Tall Zar‛a, Jordan
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 01/01/2022
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster