Since 1951 the Advisory Council supports, advises, and advocates the mission of the Institute – an interdisciplinary research center that integrates archaeological, textual, linguistic, and art historical data to understand the development and functioning of the ancient civilizations of the Middle East from the earliest Holocene through the Medieval period.
Advisory Council
Anthony Diamandakis, Council Chair*
Kiana Ashtiani
Gretel Braidwood*
Andrea Dudek
Marjorie M. Fisher*
Joan S. Fortune
Sue Geshwender
Lewis Gruber*
Misty Gruber*
Howard Hallengren*
Deborah Halpern
Rex Haydon
Janet W. Helman*
Roger David Isaacs
Barbara Jillson
John D. Lawrence
John W. McCarter, Jr.
Marilyn Murray
Catherine Novotny
Susan Padula
John Otto Peters III
Rebecca Wilson Potter
Crennan M. Ray
Aimee Drolet Rossi
Roberta Schaffner
Charles N. Secchia
Coleman Seskind
O. J. Sopranos*
Walter Vandaele
Anna M. White
