Service to ACOR: Trustee 2020–2025 and Chair, Publications Committee
See: Professor Thomas W. Davis Lecture
Tom Davis was professor of archaeology at Lipscomb University and a specialist in the eastern Roman empire and biblical archaeology. He served on the editorial board of Buried History and on the board of trustees of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI). He was author and editor of a plethora of academic publications, including the monograph Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology, published by Oxford University Press in 2004. Prof. Davis led field excavations in Kazakhstan, Cyprus, and Egypt and lectured extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. He also served as principal investigator and field director at dozens of archaeological projects in the United States. He did part of his archaeological training at Jordan’s Tell el-Hayyat site while earning his graduate degrees. Davis earned an MA and PhD from the University of Arizona in Syro-Palestinian archaeology (1983 and 1987, respectively) and a BA in history and archaeology and Near Eastern studies from Wheaton College (1979).