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.
Executive Committee
Arthur Lee Herbst, Council Chair
Andrea Dudek
John W. Rowe
O. J. Sopranos
Advisory Council
| Guity Nashat Becker | John D. Lawrence |
| Gretel Braidwood | Aldis Liventals |
| Anthony J. Diamandakis | John W. McCarter, Jr. |
| Marjorie M. Fisher* | Catherine Novotny |
| Joan S. Fortune | Susan Padula |
| Byron Gregory | John Otto Peters III |
| Lewis Gruber* | Rebecca Wilson Potter |
| Misty Gruber* | Crennan M. Ray |
| Howard Hallengren* | Aimee Drolet Rossi |
| Deborah Halpern | Roberta Schaffner |
| Rex Haydon | Charles N. Secchia |
| Janet W. Helman* | Coleman Seskind, M.D. |
| Roger David Isaacs | Walter Vandaele |
| Barbara Jillson | Anna M. White |
