Dr. Bergoffen is
both a professional contract archaeologist who works in the New York
City area and an academic archaeologist and art historian
specialized in the Bronze Age civilization of the eastern
Mediterranean. She has been teaching in the History of Art
Department at F.I.T. since 1995 and has also taught in the Honors
Program here. She has created two new courses and co-authored a
third. Next summer (2007), she will be offering for the first time
her new archaeology course in Israel to give students the
opportunity to experience field work first hand and see how history
is recovered and reconstructed from artifacts. Dr. Bergoffen is
affiliated with the University of Vienna as one of an international
team of scholars studying the chronology of the second millennium
B.C. in the eastern Mediterranean, and has written many scholarly
articles and a monograph on this subject. She is professionally very
active, presenting papers on average at two conferences every year
in the United States and Europe, as well as participating in the
excavation and publication of findings from sites in Greece and the
Middle East. She has worked in Israel, Turkey, Greece, Yemen, Oman,
and Egypt. In 2006, the History of Art Department awarded her the
George Dorsch Fellowship to work on her publication of the finds
from a major 2nd millennium B.C. site in the Gaza Strip.
Among other current projects, she is preparing a description of this
site’s relations with its Bronze Age neighbors for an upcoming
exhibition at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva, Switzerland.
Education:
B.F.A. Concordia University
M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Current Courses:
HA 111 "History of Western Art and Civilization: Ancient to
Medieval"
HA 121 "Ancient Cities: the Eastern Mediterranean World"
HA 393 "Art and Myth in the Classical World"
HA 227 "Archaeological Excavation in Israel"
Selected Publications:
_The
Bronze Age Cypriot Pottery from Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at
Tell Atchana / Alalakh_. Vienna: Austrian Science Foundation, 2005.
"Canaanite Wheelmade Imitations of Late Cypriot Base Ring II Jugs",
331-338 in: Timelines Studies in Honour
of Manfred Bietak. Vol. II. E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman,
and A. Schwab, eds. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
"Style, Context and Chronology: Cypriot Base Ring I kraters from
Alalakh", in: _The Lustrous Wares of Late Bronze Age Cyprus and the
Eastern Mediterranean, Proceedings of the Cyprus Project of the
SCIEM 2000 Conference, November 4-7, 2004, Vienna_. Österreichischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, forthcoming.
"Plank Figures as Cradleboards", in: _Medelhavsmuseet
Focus on the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the conference "Finds and
Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective.
Stockholm, March 31-April 2, 2006_. Forthcoming.
"The Cypriote Pottery from Alalakh: Chronological Considerations",
pp. 395-410 in: Bietak, M. And Hunger, H., eds., The Synchronization
of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millennium
B.C. II, Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 - Euroconference, Haindorf,
May 2001. Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie, Band XXIX, Vienna, 2003.
