Director
Dr. Thomas W. Davis's archaeological career has spanned more than 30 years. He received a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) in 1979. After spending a year at Bryn Mawr College in Classical Archaeology, he continued his graduate education at the University of Arizona, where he was awarded an M.A. in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1987 in the field of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology. Oxford Press has recently published his revised dissertation under the title: Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology (2004).
After receiving his doctorate, Dr. Davis spent over a decade in the field of Cultural Resource Management at R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates in Frederick, Maryland, where he rose to the rank of Assistant Vice President. During this time he directed more than 60 archaeological projects throughout the eastern and southern United States.
Since 2003, Dr. Davis has been the Director of CAARI. In Cyprus he has served as Co-Principal Investigator for the Politiko Troullia survey and the Kourion Mapping Project. As a graduate student, Dr. Davis worked as Field Director in the University of Arizona excavations on the acropolis of Kourion. In 1987 he was a Pacific Scientific Research Fellow at CAARI. His current research also includes the East Frontier Archaeological Project in the Sinai, Egypt, where he has been Field Director at the site of Tell el Borg since 2000. He has published more than 30 articles on a variety of archaeological topics.
Dr. Davis lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Nicosia. Mrs. Davis received a B.A. in French and studied at the Université de Tours, France. She has served as a volunteer and registrar on excavations in both Jordan and Egypt.
