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Oct. 23, 2014
 

Prof. Steve Rosen has been appointed the new Vice-President for External Affairs, succeeding Prof. Amos Drory, who is retiring. Prof. Rosen will spend the coming year in the United States on sabbatical learning about the global Associates offices and assume his everyday duties in Beer-Sheva in the fall of 2015. 

Prof. Rosen has served as deputy rector for the past two years. As part of his duties, he was heavily involved with international students and the Office of International Academic Affairs.  His international administrative academic experience includes a stint as acting head of the Ginsburg-Ingerman Overseas Studies Program and assistant dean of the Kreitman School of Advanced Studies. He is incumbent of the Canada Chair in Near Eastern Archeology a past chair of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near East, head of the Archaeological Division, and the director of the Humphrey Institute for Social Research 

He has been a member of the Archaeological Council of Israel since 1997. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago in anthropology. Prior to working for Ben-Gurion University he worked as a survey archaeologist for eight years with the Archaeological Survey of Israel-Negev Emergency Survey.

His areas of research expertise include the analysis of chipped stone tool industries, especially from the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages, the archaeology of nomadism, and generally prehistoric archaeology and Negev archaeology. He is the author of four books, one edited volume, and over 150 publications in journals and edited volumes. His book Lithics: After the Stone Age won the American Schools of Oriental Research Publication award in 1998 and he edited the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society for seven years.

Prof. Amos Drory spearheaded the External Affairs Branch for seven years bringing it unprecedented success.