Oriental Institute Research Archives Staff 1973-2012

  This is a listing of the librarians and staff of the Oriental Institute Research Archives from its founding in 1973 until today. It is based partly on information included in the Oriental Institute Annual Reports, and partly on my own memory. The first section is a chronological list, the second section an alphabetical list. If I have inadvertently omitted anyone, please let me know, and I will add them instantly.
[First published February 8 2008, updated with 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 staff names on February 17, 2008; updated 21 September 2009 with 2008-2009 staff names; updated 10 March 2013 with staff names]

2011-2012 Foy Scalf (Librarian)
Employees:
Laura Holzweg
Jill Waller
Ahmet Tunc Sen
Taylor Coplen
Melissa Bellah

Volunteers:
Ray Broms
Andrea Dudek
Roberta Schaffner

2010-2011 Foy Scalf (Librarian)
Employees:
Laura Hozlweg
Jill Waller
Monique Vincent

Volunteers:
Ray Broms
Stephanie Duran
Andrea Dudek
Roberta Schaffner

2009-2010 Foy Scalf (Librarian)
Employees:
Laura Holzweg
Lori Calabria
Monique Vincent
Jill Waller

Volunteers:
Ray Broms
Stephanie Duran
Andrea Dudek
Mary Louise Jackowicz
James Tillapaugh

2008-2009 Foy Scalf (Librarian)
Employees:
Kathryn Anthony
Lori Calabria
Laura Holzweg
Hannah Kooperkamp
Matthew McAffee

Volunteers:
Susan Bazargan
Ray Broms
Joe Diamond
Stephanie Duran

2007-2008 Foy Scalf (Librarian)
Employees:
Laura Cappe
Laura Holzweg
Erika Morey
Kenneth Yu

2006-2007 Magnus Widell (Librarian)
Emplyees:
Foy Scalf
Annie Caruso
Camran Cross
Kenneth Yu

2005-2006 Magnus Widell (Librarian)
Employees:
Foy Scalf
Annie Caruso
Camran Cross
Alexander Eger
Seunghee Yie

2004-2005 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Employees:
Foy Scalf
Benjamin Trofatter

2003-2004 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Michael Beetley
Foy Scalf
Benjamin Trofatter

2002-2003 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Eudora Bernsen
Foy Scalf
Kathy Wagner

2001-2002 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Vanessa Davies
Emily Hartsay
Sandra Morrison
Kathy Wagner
Alexandra Witsell

2000-2001 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Jacob Lauinger M
ark Saathoff
Leslie Schramer
Alexandra Witsell

1999-2000 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Jacob Lauinger
Mark Saathoff
Katherine Strange

1998-1999 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Aaron Burke
Alexandra O’Brien
Tamara Siuda
Katherine Strange

1997-1998 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Hratch Papazian
Alexandra O'Brien
Justine Way

1996-1997 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Hratch Papazian
Alexandra O'Brien
Justine Way

1995-1996 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Alexandra O'Brien
Justine Way

1994-1995 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Gregory Munson
Rachel Dahl

1993-1994 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Belinda Monahan
Gregory Munson

1992-1993 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Paul Cobb
Terry Wilfong

1991-1992 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Paul Cobb
Terry Wilfong

1990-1991 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Paul Cobb
Terry Wilfong

1989-1990 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Anthony Tomasino
Terry Wilfong

1988-1989 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Anthony Tomasino
Terry Wilfong

1987-1988 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Terry Wilfong

1986-1987 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Terry Wilfong

1985-1986 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Terry Wilfong

1984-1985 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Jonathan Elias
Gary Greig
Christine Riddle
Margaret Schroeder
Donald Vance

1983-1984 Charles E. Jones (Librarian)
Steven Boozer
John Meloy
David Testen

1982-1983 Alice Figundio Schneider (Librarian until March)
Charles E. Jones (Librarian from March 1983)
John Meloy
David Testen
Rich Graber
Mike Krausman

1981-1982 Alice Figundio Schneider (Librarian)
Nina Bruhns
David Baird
Steven Boozer

1980-1981 Alice Figundio Schneider (Librarian)
Elizabeth Garner
Jonathan Goodman
Pam Sears
Talvi Laev
Afshin Amir-Alikhani

1979-1980 Richard L. Zettler (until January 1980)
Alice Figundio (from January 1980)
Elizabeth Garner
Jonathan Goodman
David Testen

1978-1979 Richard L. Zettler (Librarian) (Frank Yurco during Zettler’s absence in Iraq)
John Currid
Alice Figundio
David Testen

1977-1978 Richard L. Zettler (Librarian)
Luanne Buchanan
Lorelei Corcoran
Robert Ritner

1976-1977 Richard L. Zettler (Librarian)
Lorelei Corcoran
Terry Hofeld-Church
Robert Ritner

1975-1976 Charles C. Van Siclen, III (Librarian)
Howard M. Farber
John A. Larson
George C. Moore
Ida McPherson
Ann Roth

1974-1975 Charles C. Van Siclen, III (Librarian)
Howard M. Farber
John A. Larson
Margaret C. Root

1973-1974 Charles C. Van Siclen, III (Librarian)
John A. Larson
Frank Yurco
Richard L. Zettler

Before 9/1973 Howard Berman (Librarian)


Archival Photofiles, [apf2-05480], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Alphabetical list of persons who worked in the Oriental Institute Research Archives
Annotated with information on completed dissertations and continuing envolvement Ancient Near Eastern Studies / academia.

• Afshin Amir-Alikhani
• David Baird [Network Specialist, NSIT, University of Chicago]
• Michael Beetley
• Howard Berman [Independent Scholar, Seattle WA. University of Chicago dissertation: The Stem Formation of Hittite Nouns and Adjectives]
• Eudora Struble (Bernsen) [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Steven Boozer [Cataloging Asst., Regenstein Library, University of Chicago]
• Nina Bruhns [Author of romance novels]
• Luanne Buchanan
• Aaron Burke [Asst. Prof. of Archaeology of Ancient Israel & the Levant, UCLA. University of Chicago dissertation: The Architecture Of Defense: Fortified Settlements Of The Levant During The Middle Bronze Age:]
• Annie Caruso
• Paul Cobb [Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania. University of Chicago dissertation published as: White banners : contention in ʻAbbasid Syria, 750-880]
• Lorelei H. Corcoran [Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology and Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Memphis. University of Chicago dissertation published as: Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.) with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums]
• Camran Cross
• John Currid [Carl W. McMurray Professor of Old Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary. University of Chicago dissertation: Archaeological investigations into the grain storage practices of Iron Age Palestine]
• Rachel Dahl
• Vanessa Davies [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Alexander Eger [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Jonathan Elias [Director, Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium. University of Chicago dissertation: Coffin inscription in Egypt after the new kingdom : a study of text production and use in elite mortuary preparation]
• Howard M. Farber
• Elizabeth Garner
• Jonathan Goodman
• Rich Graber
• Gary Greig [Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at King's Seminary at Church On The Way in Van Nuys, CA. University of Chicago dissertation: The influence of the semantic categories of Egyptian verbs of perception and cognition on grammatical structure in Late Egyptian]
• Emily Hartsay
• Terry Hofeld-Church
• Laura Holzweg [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Charles E. Jones [Head Librarian, Blegen Library, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (until March 2008); Head Librarian, The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU (from March 2008)
• Mike Krausman
• Talvi Laev
• John A. Larson [Museum Archivist, The Oriental Institute]
• Jacob Lauinger [Assistant Professor of History, Roanoke College. University of Chicago dissertation: Archival practices at old Babylonian/Middle Bronze age Alalakh (level VII)]
• John Meloy [Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, AUB. University of Chicago dissertation: Mamluk authority, Meccan autonomy, and Red Sea trade, 797-859/1395-1455]
• Belinda Monahan [Archaeologist, Project ArAGATS, the joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies. Northwestern University dissertation: The organization of domestication at Gritille, a pre-pottery neolithic B site in southeastern Turkey]
• George C. “Bud” Moore
• Erika Morey [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Sandra Morrison
• Gregory Munson [Physician/VA Quality Scholar at VA-Tennessee Valley Healthcare System]
• Ida McPherson
• Alexandra O’Brien [University of Chicago dissertation: Private tradition, public state : women in demotic business and administrative texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Thebes]
• Hratch Papazian [Lecturer of Egyptology, NELC, University of Chicago. University of Chicago dissertation: Domain of pharaoh : the structure and components of the economy of Old Kingdom Egypt]
• Christine Riddle Urban
• Robert K. Ritner [ Professor of Egyptology, NELC, University of Chicago. University of Chicago dissertation published as: The mechanics of ancient Egyptian magical practice]
• Margaret C. Root [Professor, History of Art and Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology; Curator, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Bryn Mawr College dissertation published as: The king and kingship in Achaemenid art : essays on the creation of an iconography of empire]
• Ann Macy Roth [Clinical Associate Professor of Egyptology, NYU. University of Chicago dissertation published as: Egyptian phyles in the Old Kingdom : the evolution of a system of social organization]
• Mark Saathoff [Course Administrator for the University of Chicago, Department of Medicine]
• Foy Scalf [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Librarian]
• Alice Figundio Schneider
• Leslie Schramer [Editor, Oriental Institute Publications Office]
• Margaret Schroeder [Research Order Photo Processor, the Oriental Institute]
• Pam Sears
• Tamara Siuda [Her Holiness Hekatawy I, current Nisut-bityt of the Kemetic Orthodox Religion]
• Katherine Strange Burke [University of Chicago dissertation: Archaeological texts and contexts on the Red Sea : the sheikh's house at Quseir al-Qadim]
• David Testen [University of Chicago dissertation published as: Parallels in Semitic linguistics : the development of Arabic la- and related Semitic particles]
• Anthony J. Tomasino [Director of the Biblical Studies Program, Assistant Professor of Bible, Old Testament, and Hebrew, Bethel College. University of Chicago dissertation: Daniel and the revolutionaries : the use of the Daniel tradition by Jewish resistance movements of late second-temple Palestine]
• Benjamin Trofatter
• Charles C. Van Siclen, III [Librarian, The American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo
• Donald R Vance [Associate Professor. of Biblical Languages and Literature, Oral Roberts University. University of Denver dissertation published as: The question of meter in biblical Hebrew poetry]
• Monique Vincent [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Justine Way
• Jill Waller [Graduate Student, NELC, Johns Hopkins University]
• Magnus Widell [Lecturer in Assyriology, University of Liverpool]
• Terry Wilfong [Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of Michigan, University of Chicago dissertation published as: Women of Jeme : lives in a Coptic town in late antique Egyp]
• Alexandra Witsell [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
• Kathy Wagner
• Seunghee Yie [Graduate Student NELC, University of Chicago]
  Kenneth Yu
• Frank Yurco
• Richard L. Zettler [Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near East Section of the University Museum. University of Chicago dissertation published as: The Ur III Temple of Inanna at Nippur : the operation and organization of urban religious institutions in Mesopotamia in the late third millennium B.C.]

Archival Photofiles, [apf2-05486], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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