Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Judaic Studies. She is affiliated with the Center for Middle East Studies and the Center for Urban Studies.
Katharina Galor is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in the visual and material culture of Israel-Palestine. She received her B.A., M.A. and Diplôme d’Études Approfondi in Art History and Archaeology from the Université d’Aix-Marseille in France and her Ph.D. in Old World Art and Archaeology from Brown University. In addition to teaching at Brown, she also taught at the Hebrew University and at the Ecole biblique et archéologique française in Jerusalem; at Tufts University and at the Rhode Island School of Design in the US; and at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She has been a fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, at the Berlin Antike-Kolleg, the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, the Chronoi Center of the Berlin Einstein Foundation, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Her publications include The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins to the Ottomans (co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn, Yale University Press, 2013), Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology Between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017), The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (co-authored with Sa'ed Atshan; Duke University Press, 2020), which was translated into German (Israelis, Palästinenser und Deutsche in Berlin. Geschichten einer komplexen Bezhiehung, De Gruyter, 2021), and Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency (Routledge, 2024).
