Helga SEEDEN

- PhD, the UCLondon Institute of Archaeology
- Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, AUB, since 1991
- Editor, the journal Berytus since 1987
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY (James & James, Science Publishers, London), since 2000
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal ARCHAEOLOGIES, published by the World Archaeological Congress, in association with AltaMira Press since 2005

Key Interests

-Management and presentation of cultural resources
-Ethnoarchaeology
-Urban and rural settlement formation processes in Lebanon and Syria
-Alternative Archaeologies and World Archaeology

Courses Taught

- 'Introduction to Archaeology' (Arol 101): Cultural resource management strategies. The retrieval and processing of archaeological information and the multiple ways of presenting it to the public are tested with actual and virtual case studies.
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/arol101/

- 'The Human Story I and II' (Arol 213/214): The Archaeology of Stone Age People with the help of ethnographic, ethnoarchaeological and experimental information.

- Graduate seminars in Current Approaches to Archaeology (Arol 301/302).

Recent Fieldwork and Present Research

- Beirut Souks Post-excavation Project from 1997 to the present: analysis and preparation for scientific publication and popular presentation of the results of three years continuous excavations in the post-war Beirut city center (1994-96). With Dominic Perring, Tim Williams, Paul Reynolds, Reuben Thorpe, Sarah Jennings, et al. External funding (Leverhulme Trust, London 1994-2002), and AUB grants; the CBRL granted funds to the palaeoenvironmentalist James Rackham to study the animal bones from the excavations.

- Beirut Souks Excavations from 1994-1997 sponsored by AUB, the Leverhulme Trust and Solidere.
The latest List of Publications resulting from the AUB-ACRE Beirut Souks Exacavation Project (1995 ongoing) is available in Berytus Archaeological Studies volume 48/49 (2004-2005). See also
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/archaeology/berytus43/
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/archaeology/soukex/deliverables/index.html

- Public Presentations on Beirut: Archaeology and Reconstruction
ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, London: presented the Beirut AUB-Leverhulme Project Exhibition (with Tim Williams, English Heritage, and Tim Loveless, photographer).
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, New York, 1996, and Project Exhibition at the Stanhope Hotel,
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, Washington; The University of California, Berkeley; San Francisco; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Detroit.

- Postwar efforts to raise heritage awareness in Lebanon
'The National Museum Past & Future - Uprooted Heritage': Participated in designing the first post-war exhibition at the Beirut National Museum for the Department of Antiquities (1993).
'TYRE 1991' First cultural heritage rescue project in post-war Lebanon: Salvage of important archaeological finds from Tyre for the Department of Antiquities and exhibition at the Bank of Lebanon, in cooperation with Helen Sader, AUB.

Earlier Fieldwork and Research

- Village investigation and ethnoarchaeology with Shadi Hamadeh (AUB FAFS): ICARDA-AUB Dryland Resource Management Project - Case Study LEBANON: Ethnoarchaeological investigation of two villages in the Biqa'.

- AUB-IFEAD Habur Village Project (Syria), in cooperation with the Institut Français d'Etudes Arabes à Damas (IFEAD). Ethnoarchaeological research into rural settlement history in northeast Syria. Funded by AUB, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, NY, and the IFEAD (1985-1990). See Damaszener Mitteilungen 4, 1-31. Also in H Weiss (ed.) American Journal of Archaeology 95 / 4 (Oct. 1991), 692-95 and 98, 1994, 112-114; Bulletin d'études arabes 41-42 (1985-1990), 143-148.

- AUB Busra Project. Ethnographic and archaeological research and fieldwork in a south Syrian farming village. Discovery of an Umayyad farmhouse and Bronze Age Busra (1980-1985).
See Damaszener Mitteilungen 1, 1983, and 3, 1985; 3, 281-306; Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes (=AAAS) 33 / 2 (1983), 160-173; & 267 (in Arabic); World Archaeology 17/2, 289-303 and cover photograph; Archiv für Orientforschung 31 (1984), 126128; Syria (Paris) 62 (1985), 132-133; Berytus 33 (1985), 103-142.

- A Stone Age Village on the Euphrates: Reports from the Halafian settlement at Shams ed-Din Tannira. AUB rescue excavation 1974-1980.

Recent Publications

- Urban Archaeology '94: BEIRUT. With Dominic Perring, S. Masri et al. Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Directorate General of Antiquities, the AUB-Leverhulme Team, Solidere (new edition in prep.).
- The Paths of History. Beirut Central District. Maps of the Beirut City Center reconstruction and archaeological sites and discoveries. The Directorate General of Antiquities. English, French and Arabic editions (new edition in preparation).
- Search for the Missing Link: Archaeology and the Public in Lebanon. In Politics and the Past, vol. 12 of the Series One World Archaeology (=OWA). London: Unwin Hyman, 141-159.
- Western Archaeology and the History of Near Eastern Archaeological Sites. In The East and the Meaning of History, Studi Orientali XIII (ed. Scarcia Amoretti, B M). Rome: Bardi Editore, 53-72.
- Archaeology and the Public in Lebanon: developments since 1986. In Stone, P G & Molyneaux, B L eds The Presented Past. Heritage, Museums and Education. In OWA 23. Routledge , 95-107.
- Entries in the The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, published under the auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research by Oxford University Press, New York. In vols 1: 274-75; 3, 172-73; 5, 11.
- Village houses in Lebanon: From Kumidi to Baalbek. In Les Maisons dans la Syrie Antique du III millénaire aux débuts de l'Islam, eds Castel, Al-Maqdissi and Villeneuve. Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche Orient: Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique vol. 150, 203-214.
- Entries 'Lebanon' (village architecture). In Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World edited by Paul Oliver. (Oxford School of Architecture: Blackwell).
- William A. Ward and Beirut: Archaeological News from the capital of his choice. In Ancient Egyptian and Mediterranean Studies in Memory of William A Ward. L H Lesko ed. (Brown University: Dept of Egyptology, Providence, RI), 215-227.
- Lebanon's archaeological heritage on trial in Beirut: What Future for the capital's past? In Heritage Conservation in Modern Society. Eds McManamon, F. P. & Hatton, A. In OWA vol. 33, 168-187.

Membership of Professional Bodies and Scientific Associations

- National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, peer reviewer since 2000
- Society of Antiquaries of London, elected Fellow in May 1998
- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Berlin, elected Corresponding Member in June 1998
- Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), London, since 1970
- Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) since 1999
- World Archaeological Congress since 1986, appointed Life Member in 2000
- International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris, since 1991
- Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Paris, since 1997
- Green Line Association for Natural and Cultural Environment Conservation, Founding Member since 1991