Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Christopher M. Monroe
Senior Lecturer,
Near Eastern Studies

chrismon@cornell.edu
607.255.1075
407 White Hall
Education
  • Michigan State University, Anthropology, B.S. 1985
  • Texas A&M University, Nautical Archaeology, M.A. 1990
  • University of Michigan, Near Eastern Studies, Ph.D. 2000; Information Science, M.A. 2001
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University - 1 year
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - 2 years
 
Research Interests
Bronze Age archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, Assyriology, trade and intercultural relations, nautical archaeology
 
Research Experience
Excavations at: Tel Zayit, Israel (2000); Tel Qedesh, Israel (1997); Uluburun, Turkey (1987-88, 1990, 1994); Umm el-Marra, Syria (1994); Goltepe, Turkey (1993); Tel Nami, Israel (1987-1989, 1990, 1992); Kommos, Crete (1991)
 
Selected Publications
  • 2007 “Vessel Volumetrics and the Myth of the Cyclopean Bronze Age Ship.” In press for Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.
  • 2007 Review of The Ma´agan Michael Ship. The Recovery of a 2400-Year-Old Merchantman. Final Report, vol. 1. By Elisha Linder; Yaacov Kahanov; et al. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2003. In press for Journal of the American Oriental Society.
  • 2005 “Money and Trade.” In D. Snell, ed., Blackwell Companion to the Ancient Near East, pp. 154-68. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • 2003 Review, in Catholic Bible Quarterly 65:253-55, of Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections. The Relationship of Middle Bronze Age IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt. By Susan L. Cohen. HSM, Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 3. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002.
  • 2002 Review, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 122.4:904-07, of The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East. By J. David Schloen. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001.