Curriculum Vitae of Francis Deblauwe

e-mail: fdeblauwe [at] gmail [dot] com
home page: http://iwa.univie.ac.at/academic.html

Education
Teaching experience
Archaeological field experience
Conference papers and lectures
Professional affiliations
Languages
Web sites
Publications
In the Media
Courses


Education

1994 --- Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles (dissertation: A Spatial Analysis of Mesopotamian Buildings from the Late Bronze Age till the Parthian Period)

1986 --- Diploma Modern Arabic, elementary level, Centrum voor Levende Talen Leuven, Belgium

1984 --- Licentiaat in Archaeology and Art History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (dissertation: The Early 1st Mill. B.C. Sculpture in the Round of Tell Halaf)

1982 --- Kandidaat in Oriental Philology and History (Assyriology), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

1981 --- Kandidaat in Archaeology and Art History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 

Teaching and Research Experience

Since 2007 --- Program developer, Alexandria Archive Institute, San Francisco, California

Since 2005 --- Director, IWA-Projekt, Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

Since 2005 --- Research associate, Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

2003-2006 --- Consultant, Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California

1995-2000 --- Adjunct doctoral faculty, Center for Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

1995-2000 --- Adjunct doctoral faculty, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

1996-1997 --- Lecturer, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

1995-1997 --- Lecturer, Liberal Arts Department, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

1996 --- Special instructor (sabbatical replacement), Liberal Arts Department, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

1995 --- Lecturer, Johnson County branch, Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kansas (now University of Saint Mary)

1994 --- Lecturer, History/Government Program, University of Maryland University College, European Division, Heidelberg, Germany
 

Archaeological Field Experience

1989 --- Oylum Höyük (3rd millennium BC) in Turkey: area supervisor (University of California, Los Angeles, & Hacettepe Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey)

1988-89 --- Tell Ziyada (5th-3rd millennium BC) in Syria: area supervisor and faunal analysis (University of California, Los Angeles, & California State University, Los Angeles)

1988 --- Tell Mozan (3rd millennium BC) in Syria: area supervisor (University of California, Los Angeles, & California State University, Los Angeles)

1987 --- Wadi al-Juba (2nd-1st millennium BC) in Yemen: participation in the final inventory of the archaeological remains (American Foundation for the Study of Man)

1982 --- Lehun (Paleolithic-Ottoman) in Jordan: field work (Belgian Committee for Excavations in Jordan)

1979-1985 --- Various excavations in Belgium: Kerkhove and Heestert (Roman), Harelbeke (Merovingian), and Vlissegem and Leuven (Medieval): field work (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
 

Conference Papers and Lectures

2004 --- "The Iraq War and Archaeology," presented at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri

1997 --- "Archaeology Begins at Sumer: Architectural Remains of the First Great Civilization of the Ancient Near East," presented at a monthly meeting of the Kansas City Archaeological Society, Kansas City, Missouri

1997 --- "Space Speaks Volumes: Quantifying Spatial Characteristics of 3rd Millennium B.C. Houses at Tell Melebiya, Syria," presented at At Home in the Ancient World: Domestic Life in the Mediterranean Basin from the Beginnings of Urbanization to the High Roman Empire, a symposium to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Archaeological Institute of America, St. Louis Chapter, in St. Louis, Missouri

1997 --- Convener of the American Schools of Oriental research session "Excavations and Surveys," at the Central States Society of Biblical Literature/American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri

1997 --- "Quantifying Spatial Characteristics of Architecture: A Case Study of the 3rd Millennium B.C. Houses at Tell Melebiya, Syria," presented at the Central States Society of Biblical Literature/American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri

1995 --- "Discriminant Analysis by Means of Certain Spatial Variables Derived from Mesopotamian Buildings," presented at the 205th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Salt Lake City, Utah

1993 --- "An Analysis of the 'Spacings' of Mesopotamian Houses from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages," presented at the XLth Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Leiden, the Netherlands

1992 --- "Circulation and Access Patterns in Assyrian Architecture," presented at the XXXIXth Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Heidelberg, Germany

1991 --- "A Study of Accessibility and Circulation Patterns in Some Mesopotamian Buildings from the Third Millennium B.C.," presented at the 201st Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Berkeley, California
 

Professional Affiliations

Assyriological Centre Georges Dossin (formerly Assyriological Foundation G.D.)
International Association for Assyriology
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARI, formerly American Association for Research in Baghdad)

Languages

Dutch, French, German, some Arabic
Latin, Akkadian, Sumerian, some ancient Greek
 

Web Sites

Since September 2008 --- Contributor to Digging Digitally. Archaeology, Data Sharing, Digitally Enabled Research and Education blog, San Francisco, http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog

Since 2003 --- The Iraq War & Archaeology. An Archaeos, Inc., Documentation and Information Project web site: editor, designer and webmaster; http://iwa.univie.ac.at, http://www.archaeos.org/iwa and http://iraqwararchaeo.blogspot.com

1998-2005 --- Kansas City/Lawrence Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. Straddling the Kansas/Missouri Border web site: designer and webmaster; archived copy at http://web.archive.org/web/20041028135332/cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/aia.html

Publications

2008 --- "OA Academia in Repose. Seven Academic Open-Access Repositories Compared," in iCommons (South Africa), August 7, republished September 4, 1 pic., 2 tables, with hyperlinks, (http://www.icommons.org/articles/oa-academia-in-repose)

2008 --- "Ancient Righting: Archaeologists & Copyright," in iCommons (South Africa), July 7, 1 pic., online publication (http://www.icommons.org/articles/ancient-righting-archaeologists-copyright)

2008 --- "Collating Online Collections. Study of 13 Cultural Heritage Collections Online," in iCommons (South Africa), May 5, 1 pic., 2 tables, 1 video, online publication (http://www.icommons.org/articles/collating-online-collections-study-of-13-cultural-heritage-collections-online)

2006 --- Donny George's Exile and the State of the SBAH (IW&A Documents, 10), The Iraq War & Archaeology, New York and Vienna (Austria), November 11, online publication (http://iwa.univie.ac.at/georgesbah.html)

2006 --- The State of Preservation of the Neo-Assyrian Reliefs at Khinnis/Bavian (IW&A Documents, 9), The Iraq War & Archaeology, New York and Vienna (Austria), May 14, 15 pics., online publication (http://iwa.univie.ac.at/bavian.html)

2005 --- Note on John Russell's Lecture "Recovering Iraq's Past" in St. Louis on November 5, 2005 (IW&A Documents, 6), The Iraq War & Archaeology, New York and Vienna (Austria), November 16, 5 pics., online publication (http://iwa.univie.ac.at/slamrussell.html)

2005 --- "Online-Dokumentations-Projekt zur Kulturgüter-Situation im Irak nun am Server der Universität Wien," in DieUniversitaet-online.at. Zeitung der Universität Wien - Online (Austria), September 12, 5 pics., translated from the English and edited by Friedrich Schipper, online publication (http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/beitraege/news/online-dokumentations-projekt-zur-kulturguter-situation-im-irak-nun-am-server-der-universitat-wien/10.html)

2005 --- "Der Golfkrieg, das Kulturerbe des Irak und der Kampf der Wissenschaft gegen die Antike-Kunsthandel-Lobby in den USA," in DieUniversitaet-online.at. Zeitung der Universität Wien - Online (Austria), [September 12, 2005], translated from the English and edited by Friedrich Schipper, online publication (http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/pdf/2005/Kulturgueter_Irak.pdf)

2005 --- "Operation Iraqi Freedom und Danach: Das archäologische Erbe des Irak und der Kampf der Wissenschaft gegen die internationale Kunsthandel-Lobby," in Forum Archaeologiae. Zeitschrift für klassische Archäologie (Austria), 36 (September), 5 pics., in collaboration with Friedrich Schipper, online publication (http://homepage.univie.ac.at/elisabeth.trinkl/forum/forum0905/36irak.htm)

2005 --- "Mesopotamian Ruins and American Scholars. Two Years Later: Some Lobbying Successes But the Devastation of Iraq's Cultural Heritage Continues," in The Bible and Interpretation (Wyoming), August [15], online publication (http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Deblauwe_Mesopotamian_Scholars.htm)

2005 --- Attending RAI 51. Observations on the 51e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Chicago, July 17-23, 2005 (IW&A Documents, 4), The Iraq War & Archaeology, Vienna (Austria), August 5, updated August 20 and 24, and September 16, online publication (http://iwa.univie.ac.at/rai51.html)

2005 --- "Der Golfkrieg und das kulturelle Erbe des Irak. Der Kampf der Wissenschaft gegen die Antike-Kunsthandel-Lobby in den USA und wie das IWA-Projekt nach Wien kam. Ein Bericht über das Projekt: »The 2003- Iraq War & Archaeology« (IWA) am Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien," in GÖAB-Bulletin. News und Infos der Gesellschaft für Österreichisch-Arabische Beziehungen, 3/05 [July], pp. 10-17, 5 pics., translated from the English and edited by Friedrich Schipper and Gebhard Selz

2005 --- "Preserving the Past From the Vandals of History. [Book review of] STEALING HISTORY: TOMB RAIDERS, SMUGGLERS, AND THE LOOTING OF THE ANCIENT WORLD By Roger Atwood. St. Martin’s Press, 337 pages, $25.95," in National Catholic Reporter, 41, 29 (May 20), p. 7a, 2 pics.

2005 --- "Antiquities and the Iraq War: Information, the Web and Pictures," in Visual Resources. An International Journal of Documentation, 21, 1 (March) = Special Issue on The Destruction of Our Cultural Heritage: Examples of Visual Documentation from Iraq, Afghanistan and Croatia, pp. 73-91, figs. 1-20

2005 --- Steve Walsh, "War exposes history," in [Gary] Post-Tribune (Indiana), February 6, pp. A1 and A4, 5 pics., with a sidebar by Francis Deblauwe

2005 --- "American graffiti. We cannot avoid responsibility for this destructive legacy of the war, writes Francis Deblauwe," in The Guardian, January 15, p. 4

2004 --- "Going, Going, Gone! Archaeological Sites in Iraq," in Archaeology Odyssey, November-December, pp. 41-47 and 50-51, 13 pics., 3 figs.

2003 --- "Melee at the Museum. International Whodunit Lingers over Looting of Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad," in National Catholic Reporter, 39, 44 (October 17), pp. 18-19, 2 pics.

2003 --- "Iraq Losses Greatly Exaggerated. But Many Important Items Still Missing," in Biblical Archaeology Review, 29, 5 (September-October), pp. 18-19, 1 pic.

2003 --- "Iraq Update," in Archaeology Odyssey, September-October, pp. 19-21, 1 pic.

2003 --- "Plundering the Past: The Rape of Iraq’s National Museum," in Archaeology Odyssey, July-August, pp. 16-23, 9 pics., cover pic.

2003 --- Francis Deblauwe and Bert Wetherill, "Prohibit Imports of Looted Treasures," in The Kansas City Star, June 6, ca. 400 words, 2 pics.

1997 --- "Discriminant Analysis of Selected Spatial Variables Derived from Mesopotamian Buildings of the Late Bronze Age till the Parthian Period," in Mesopotamia. Rivista di Archeologia, Epigrafia e Storia Orientale Antica, 32, pp. 271-288, figs. 1-26

1997 --- "A Test Study of Circulation and Access Patterns in Assyrian Architecture," in Hartmut Waetzoldt and Harald Hauptmann (eds.), Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten. XXXIXe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Heidelberg 6.-10. Juli 1992 (Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient, 6), Heidelberg, pp. 239-246, figs. 1-12

1994 --- "'Spacings' and Statistics, or a Different Method to Analyze Buildings. A Test with Mesopotamian Houses from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages," in Akkadica. Périodique bimestriel de la Fondation Assyriologique Georges Dossin, 89-90 (September-December), pp. 1-8, figs. 1-9

1992 --- "A Study of Accessibility and Circulation Patterns in the Sin Temple of Hafagi from the Third Millennium B.C.," in Mesopotamia. Rivista di Archeologia, Epigrafia e Storia Orientale Antica, 27, pp. 89-118, figs. A-AT, plans 1-10

1991 --- "Old South Arabian Trade Routes," in Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, 22, pp. 133-158, figs. 1-6

1991 --- "Faunal Remains," in Giorgio Buccellati, Daniela Buia and Stephen Reimer, "Tell Ziyada: The First Three Seasons of Excavation (1988-1990)," in Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 21, pp. 31-61, viz. pp. 52-53, fig. 12

1988 --- Noord-Jemen (De wereld, m'n thuis), Initia, Brussel, 32 pp., 47 pics., 5 maps

1988 --- Nord-Yémen (La terre, ma maison), Initia, Bruxelles, 32 pp., 47 pics., 5 maps

1988 --- "Noord-Jemen: Kunst en kultuur," in Hadewych Hernalsteen and Urbain Vermeulen (eds.), Bedoeïenen en oliemagnaten aan de Golf (Inforiënt-Reeks, 8), Peeters, Leuven, pp. 61-78, 7 pics., cover pic.

1988 --- Francis Deblauwe and Hadewych Hernalsteen, "Noord-Jemen: In wankel evenwicht," in Hadewych Hernalsteen and Urbain Vermeulen (eds.), Bedoeïenen en oliemagnaten aan de Golf (Inforiënt-Reeks, 8), Peeters, Leuven, pp. 49-60, 1 map

1987 --- "The Sculpture in the Round of the Principality of Guzana. A Bibliography of the Sculptures from the 1st Mill. B.C., Found at Tell Halaf, Tell Feheriye and Tell Herbe," in Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 47, pp. 333-359

1986 --- "Female Figurines with Head-Shawl from Tell Halaf," in Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, 17, pp. 275-279, pls. 19-20

1985 --- Bibliografisch hulpmiddel i.v.m. de studie van Mesopotamië, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Departement Archeologie en Kunstwetenschap, Leuven, 70 pp.

In the Media

2007 --- quoted in Karin Wendt, "Revisited: The Baghdad Museum," in Tà katoptrizómena (Hagen, Germany), online, December

2006 --- quoted in Rachel Dempsey, "Library preserves Iraq journals," in Yale Daily News, March 3

2006 --- quoted in Thomas Buomberger, "Die grinsenden Totengräber der Kultur," in Die Weltwoche (Switzerland), 2/06 (January 11)

2005 --- quoted in Martin Bailey, "The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. This Book Was Compiled in the Heat of Battle, But It Misses the Main Story," in The Art Newspaper (UK), April 29

2005 --- quoted in "Američané vážně poškodili starověké město Babylon. Quod non fecerunt Baathi, hoc fecerunt Americani Polonique," in Britské listy (Czech Republic), online, January 17

2005 --- quoted in "Bye bye Babylon, voici les barbares postmodernes," in de defensa (Belgium), online, January 16

2005 --- quoted in "Babylon Falls Prey to US 'Cultural Vandalism': Report," in Islam Online (Qatar), online, January 15

2004 --- interviewed and quoted in Jeffrey Young, "The Global Antiquities Black Market," in Voice of America, with online audio, December 22

2004 --- quoted in "War Wrecks Iraq's Heritage," in The Digger (UK), 34 (December), p. 2

2004 --- quoted in Emmett Berg and Louisa Woodville, "Tracking Lost Empires. A New Database Documents Iraqi Sites," in Humanities, 25, 6 (November-December), pp. 46-49

2004 --- quoted in William Speed Weed, "The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel. Monitoring Dumps, Extracting Worms, Lobbying Politicians: Science's Ugly Side," in Popular Science, 265, 5 (November), pp. 70-81

2004 --- quoted in "Audit of the Iraq War and Occupation," in New Scientist, 183, 2454 (July 3), p. 8

2004 --- quoted in Alexander H. Joffe, "Museum Madness in Baghdad," in Middle East Quarterly, 11, 2 (Spring), pp. 31-43

2004 --- quoted in Caroline Lécharny, "À la poursuite des objets volés," in La Recherche (France), 374 (April), p. 18

2004 --- quoted in "Next Month One Year Anniversary of Baghdad Museum Looting," in ArtDaily.com (Mexico), online, March 14

2004 --- quoted in Susan Pagani, "A Market For Injustice. In the Wake of War, Culture Is Robbed," in San Antonio Current, March 11, pp. 10-12

2004 --- quoted in Gregory Elich, "Spoils of War: The Antiquities Trade and the Looting of Iraq," in U.N. Observer & International Report, January 5, online

2004 --- quoted in Gregory Elich, "Spoils of War: The Antiquities Trade and the Looting of Iraq," in Centre for Research on Globalization (Canada), January 3, online

2003 --- quoted in Karel Verhoeven, "In Bagdad was de waarheid zoek. Waarom de wereld geloofde dat het zijn oudste geheugen kwijt was," in De Standaard (Belgium), June 14

2003 --- quoted in "Irakse museum glo nie leeggesteel," in Die Burger (South Africa), May 8

2003 --- quoted in M[aarten] D[essing], "VS start jacht op Iraakse kunstdieven," in De Standaard (Belgium), May 7

2003 --- quoted in Kyle MacMillan, "Questions Abound on Losses from Iraq Museum. Art Treasures Regarded Among Masterpieces of Mesopotamia," in The Denver Post, May 6, p. F.01

2003 --- quoted in Michael McLeod and Kate Santich, "Stolen past. The Looting of the Baghdad Museum and a Historical Library Robs the World of Precious Links to Ancient Civilization," in Orlando Sentinel, April 29

2003 --- live expert guest on "Iraq: Looting of Cultural Treasures," in WashingtonPost.com. Live Online, April 21, online moderated chat

2003 --- quoted in Ben Arnoldy, "The History of Ur," in The Christian Science Monitor, April 16, p. 25

Courses

I taught the following courses at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI), the University of Maryland University College, European Division (UMUC-ED) and Saint Mary College (SMC):

Undergraduate (lower level)

Archaeology and the Bible (KCAI)
History and Politics of the Middle East (KCAI; twice)
Introduction to Art and Archaeology (KCAI)
Issues in Modern Art to the Present (KCAI)
Mesopotamian Art and Architecture (KCAI)
The Vikings: History, Art and Culture (KCAI)
Undergraduate (upper level)
Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (UMUC-ED)
World Religions East (SMC)
Combined undergraduate (upper level) & graduate
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age (UMKC)
Archaeology and Biblical History (UMKC; twice)
Archaeology and the History of Antiquity (UMKC)
History and Culture of the Hittites (UMKC)
The History of Ancient Israel (UMKC)
Islam and the Arabs: The Formative Period (UMKC)
Graduate
Non-Thesis Research/Reading (UMKC)

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