Benjamin A. Saidel
(PhD, Harvard University, 1998)
Office: 283 Flanagan Building
Telephone: (252) 737-1074
E-mail: saidelb@ecu.edu
Office: 283 Flanagan Building
Telephone: (252) 737-1074
E-mail: saidelb@ecu.edu
About Me
Benjamin A. Saidel received his M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1998. He is currently a Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University, specializing in Near Eastern archaeology, particularly in the southern Levant. His research primarily focuses on nomadic groups, settlement patterns, and material culture. Saidel focuses on the historical and anthropological aspects of Bedouin life. Saidel uses an interdisciplinary approach, blending ethnography and archaeology, to explore tribe-state relations in antiquity (3000-2000 BCE) and in the recent past (1700-1948 CE).