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
Thomas C. Heagy
John W. Rowe
O. J. Sopranos
Advisory Council
| Guity Nashat Becker | Aldis Liventals |
| Gretel Braidwood | John W. McCarter, Jr. |
| Anthony J. Diamandakis | Catherine Novotny |
| Marjorie M. Fisher* | Susan Padula |
| Joan S. Fortune | John Otto Peters III |
| Byron Gregory | Kitty Picken* |
| Lewis Gruber* | Crennan M. Ray |
| Misty Gruber* | Aimee Drolet Rossi |
| Howard Hallengren* | Roberta Schaffner |
| Deborah Halpern | Charles N. Secchia |
| Rex Haydon | Coleman Seskind, M.D. |
| Janet W. Helman* | Rebecca Wilson Stein |
| Roger David Isaacs | Walter Vandaele |
| Barbara Jillson | Anna M. White |
| Neil J. King | Nicole S. Williams* |
| John D. Lawrence | |
