William Zimmerle
William G. Zimmerle is an historian/religion scholar/archaeologist of the Near East, and cultural heritage preservationist of the Arabian Peninsula. He is the Director of the Dhofar Ethnography Preservation Project: Documenting the Cuboid Incense Burner and Frankincense-Myrrh Tradition in the Sultanate of Oman and the Dhofar Rock Art and Southern Arabian Inscriptions Project: A Digital Humanities Initiative in Southern Oman. Both projects are under the auspices of the Diwan of the Royal Court in Muscat with funding from the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Centre
Zimmerle is Assistant Professor of History at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania where he specialized in Mesopotamian Archaeology under the Graduate Program of Cuneiform Studies (Assyriology), minored in Syro-Palestinian archaeology with some Bible and Northwest Semitic epigraphy. At Penn, he conducted extensive research on Arabian Archaeology and the Arabian incense trade (from its earliest beginnings through the early Islamic period) as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In addition to his doctoral degree, Zimmerle holds a Master of Divinity degree in Scripture/Interpretation (Area I) & some Early Christianity (Area II) from Harvard University focusing also on Archaeology and Semitic Languages & Literature, where he studied Coptic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek languages. He holds a number of graduate certificates including an advanced certificate in African Studies focusing on Ethiopic (Amharic) and ancient Egyptian languages (Middle/Late) from Penn's Center for African Studies, which he obtained while a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania as a US-FLAS Fellow. He completed a post-graduate certificate in Intellectual Property Law (copyright/moral rights) at the University of Edinburgh Law School-2018.
As a Presidential & Charter Day scholar, his undergraduate degree in History was earned at Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Park, where he was also a exchange student in Ancient Near Eastern studies at Drew University and a graduate of Wroxton College's study abroad program in British History/Culture-Oxfordshire, England. Prior to Fairleigh Dickinson University where he is responsible for teaching courses in History, Anthropology, and for building the Digital Scholarship Center that will bridge all international campuses of the university, Professor Zimmerle taught Introduction to Archaeology in the department of Geography-Anthropology at Rowan University in NJ, the Archaeology of Jerusalem & the Bible and Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sociology & World History as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at Dhofar University in Oman. He was also the 2012-2013 Sylvan C. & Pamela Coleman Curatorial Fellow in the Ancient Near Eastern Art Dept. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and the 2011 Samuel Fellow in the History of Art at the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR)-Amman. In 1999-2000, he was the Boston Theological Center's Inter-Religious dialogue specialist.
His interests include material culture-museum studies, where he is leading independent studies for students on topics such as Humanities in the Public Sphere, intellectual property law and copyrights where he is actively researching copyright law for archaeologists and crafts/cultural heritage projects, incense burners and organic residue analysis where he is currently leading a project on Arabian & East African scents/aromatics since 2016 to IFR/GC-MS/LC-MS (Infrared Spectroscopy/Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy/Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy) test the types of ancient resins used and burned inside altars and incense burners, and religion and ritual studies on incense burning/sacrifice. He is involved in heritage projects on food and scents in China as part of FDU's overseas campus.
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
M.Div. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
BA Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, NJ)
Postgrad. Cert. in Intellectual Property Law, Edinburgh University School of Law (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Visiting Scholar: Princeton Theological Seminary, Ethiopic Studies and Late Antique Orient
Visiting Student: Leiden University Summer School in Semitics (Old Aramaic & Nabatean Aramaic Inscriptions, Old South Arabian, Historical Grammar of Hittite, Old Persian and Pahlavi, Readings Demotic Papyri-Leiden Papyrological Institute)
Supervisors: Richard Zettler (Penn Museum) (Dissertation Advisor), Bruce Routledge (University of Liverpool) (Dissertation Advisor), Grant Frame (Babylonian Section-Penn Museum) (Dissertation Reader) , Paul D. Hanson (Harvard Divinity) (Masters Thesis Advisor), Peter Machinist (Harvard University) (Masters Degree Advisor), Herbert Huffmon (Drew University) , Suzanne Richard (Gannon University, formerly of Drew University) (Undergraduate Advisor), Richard Niebuhr (Harvard Divinity) (Masters Thesis Advisor), R. Thomas McDonald (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA History Honors Advisor; Medieval History, Latin), David Rosen (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA Advisor-Anthropology), Lenny Grob (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA Religion), and Richard Kopp (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA Honors and French)
Address: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Department of the Humanities
T-RH1-1
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
https://view2.fdu.edu/academics/petrocelli-college/academic-units/hospitality-and-tourism-management/faculty-and-staff/zimmerle/
Zimmerle is Assistant Professor of History at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania where he specialized in Mesopotamian Archaeology under the Graduate Program of Cuneiform Studies (Assyriology), minored in Syro-Palestinian archaeology with some Bible and Northwest Semitic epigraphy. At Penn, he conducted extensive research on Arabian Archaeology and the Arabian incense trade (from its earliest beginnings through the early Islamic period) as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In addition to his doctoral degree, Zimmerle holds a Master of Divinity degree in Scripture/Interpretation (Area I) & some Early Christianity (Area II) from Harvard University focusing also on Archaeology and Semitic Languages & Literature, where he studied Coptic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek languages. He holds a number of graduate certificates including an advanced certificate in African Studies focusing on Ethiopic (Amharic) and ancient Egyptian languages (Middle/Late) from Penn's Center for African Studies, which he obtained while a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania as a US-FLAS Fellow. He completed a post-graduate certificate in Intellectual Property Law (copyright/moral rights) at the University of Edinburgh Law School-2018.
As a Presidential & Charter Day scholar, his undergraduate degree in History was earned at Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Park, where he was also a exchange student in Ancient Near Eastern studies at Drew University and a graduate of Wroxton College's study abroad program in British History/Culture-Oxfordshire, England. Prior to Fairleigh Dickinson University where he is responsible for teaching courses in History, Anthropology, and for building the Digital Scholarship Center that will bridge all international campuses of the university, Professor Zimmerle taught Introduction to Archaeology in the department of Geography-Anthropology at Rowan University in NJ, the Archaeology of Jerusalem & the Bible and Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sociology & World History as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at Dhofar University in Oman. He was also the 2012-2013 Sylvan C. & Pamela Coleman Curatorial Fellow in the Ancient Near Eastern Art Dept. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and the 2011 Samuel Fellow in the History of Art at the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR)-Amman. In 1999-2000, he was the Boston Theological Center's Inter-Religious dialogue specialist.
His interests include material culture-museum studies, where he is leading independent studies for students on topics such as Humanities in the Public Sphere, intellectual property law and copyrights where he is actively researching copyright law for archaeologists and crafts/cultural heritage projects, incense burners and organic residue analysis where he is currently leading a project on Arabian & East African scents/aromatics since 2016 to IFR/GC-MS/LC-MS (Infrared Spectroscopy/Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy/Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy) test the types of ancient resins used and burned inside altars and incense burners, and religion and ritual studies on incense burning/sacrifice. He is involved in heritage projects on food and scents in China as part of FDU's overseas campus.
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
M.Div. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
BA Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, NJ)
Postgrad. Cert. in Intellectual Property Law, Edinburgh University School of Law (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Visiting Scholar: Princeton Theological Seminary, Ethiopic Studies and Late Antique Orient
Visiting Student: Leiden University Summer School in Semitics (Old Aramaic & Nabatean Aramaic Inscriptions, Old South Arabian, Historical Grammar of Hittite, Old Persian and Pahlavi, Readings Demotic Papyri-Leiden Papyrological Institute)
Supervisors: Richard Zettler (Penn Museum) (Dissertation Advisor), Bruce Routledge (University of Liverpool) (Dissertation Advisor), Grant Frame (Babylonian Section-Penn Museum) (Dissertation Reader) , Paul D. Hanson (Harvard Divinity) (Masters Thesis Advisor), Peter Machinist (Harvard University) (Masters Degree Advisor), Herbert Huffmon (Drew University) , Suzanne Richard (Gannon University, formerly of Drew University) (Undergraduate Advisor), Richard Niebuhr (Harvard Divinity) (Masters Thesis Advisor), R. Thomas McDonald (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA History Honors Advisor; Medieval History, Latin), David Rosen (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA Advisor-Anthropology), Lenny Grob (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA Religion), and Richard Kopp (Fairleigh Dickinson University) (BA Honors and French)
Address: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Department of the Humanities
T-RH1-1
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
https://view2.fdu.edu/academics/petrocelli-college/academic-units/hospitality-and-tourism-management/faculty-and-staff/zimmerle/
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Keywords:Egyptian history;history of science;medicine and technology;religionEgyptian history;history of science;medicine and technology;religion
co-authored with B. Porter, B. Routledge, D. Fatkin, J. Hakes, J. Salvant, and W. Schultz
Conference Presentations by William Zimmerle
ART EXHIBITIONS, CULTURAL HERITAGE by William Zimmerle
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By Prof. William Gerard Zimmerle, Oman
Wednesday 18th June, 9pm Bahrain
Peter-Lenne-Str. 28 Berlin
17.01.2017 18:00 - 20:00
ZIMMERLE, DAI RESEARCH FELLOW
Encyclopedia Entries by William Zimmerle
Keywords:Egyptian history;history of science;medicine and technology;religionEgyptian history;history of science;medicine and technology;religion
co-authored with B. Porter, B. Routledge, D. Fatkin, J. Hakes, J. Salvant, and W. Schultz
By Prof. William Gerard Zimmerle, Oman
Wednesday 18th June, 9pm Bahrain
Peter-Lenne-Str. 28 Berlin
17.01.2017 18:00 - 20:00
ZIMMERLE, DAI RESEARCH FELLOW