Andrea Berlin

Andrea M. Berlin is an archaeologist and the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. She also holds a faculty position in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. Before that she held positions at academic institutions, among which were (from 2004 to 2010) the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in 1988 from the University of Michigan.

Berlin is an expert in the archaeology and history of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East, with an emphasis on ceramics. She has published widely on the archaeology of Second Temple Judaism and the archaeology of Israel. Berlin has been assistant director of Tel Anafa and Banias excavations and a co-director of the excavations at Tel Kedesh (all in northern Israel). Berlin is the initiator and, since 2012, the main editor of the Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP), which is an open database of ceramics produced in the Levantine region. The Archaeological Institute of America awarded Berlin their highest honor, the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement for 2025. Provided by Wikipedia