Not Steven H. Werlin
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Steve Werlin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studies the archaeology of Roman and Byzantine Palestine, as well as ancient Judaism. He has been working under the direction of Dr. Jodi Magness at UNC since 2003, and at Tufts University for four years prior to that. His research interests include Ancient Synagogue Art and Architecture, Hasmonean and Herodian Architecture and History, and Jewish Religious Practices in the Classical and Near Eastern world. Steve typically spends his summers excavating. Most recently, he served as a trench supervisor for the Excavations in the Roman Fort at Yotvata in southern Israel, and in the Byzantine churches at Humayma in Jordan.
Steve is correctly completing his dissertation project which includes an analysis of the synagogues in southern Palestine in late antiquity. During the 2008-2009 academic year, Steve was a fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
In 2010, he was awarded the Hershel Shanks Prize for Archaeology in Ancient Judaism for his paper, "Appetite for Destruction? The Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Iconoclasm." Steve resides in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife and son.
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