{{Short description|British research institute in Jerusalem}} {{Infobox institute | name = Kenyon Institute | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | latin_name = | motto = | founder = Robert Mond | established = {{start date|1919}} | mission = | focus = | president = | ceo = | chairman = | head_label = Director | head = Toufic Haddad | faculty = | adjunct_faculty = | staff = | key_people = | budget = | endowment = | debt = | num_members = | subsidiaries = | owner = | non-profit_slogan = | former_name = British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem | location = Sheikh Jarrah | city = Jerusalem | state = | province = | country = | coor = {{coord|31.79295|N|35.23138|E}} | address = | website = {{URL|http://cbrl.org.uk}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }} The '''Kenyon Institute''', previously known as the '''British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem''' (BSAJ), is a British research institute supporting humanities and social science studies in Israel and Palestine. It is part of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and is supported by the British Academy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cbrl.org.uk/about-us/who-funds-us|title=Who funds us|website=CBRL website|access-date=2016-04-23|archive-date=2016-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427084354/http://cbrl.org.uk/about-us/who-funds-us|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/intl/index-basis.cfm|title=Academy-Sponsored Institutes|website=British Academy website|access-date=2016-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313045132/http://www.britac.ac.uk/intl/index-basis.cfm|archive-date=2016-03-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==History== The institute was established in 1919 as the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (BSAJ). The London-based Palestine Exploration Fund was instrumental in its foundation.
The first Director was British archaeologist John Garstang, and among its earliest students was architect-archaeologist George Horsfield, later Chief Inspector of Antiquities in British Mandate Transjordan. An excavation at Tughbah Caves by BSAJ student Francis Turville-Petre in 1925 yielded an important prehistoric find, the Galilee skull.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bar-Yosef | first1 = O. | last2 = Callander | first2 = J. A | year = 1997| title = Forgotten Archaeologist: The Life of Francis Turville-Petre | journal = Palestine Exploration Quarterly | volume = 129 | issue = 1| pages = 2–18 | doi=10.1179/peq.1997.129.1.2}}</ref> Under Garstang's directorship, the BSAJ began excavations on Mount Ophel, Jerusalem, with the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Garstang resigned his post as Director of the BSAJ in 1926 and British archaeologist John Winter Crowfoot, who had trained at the British School at Athens, became the School's second Director. With his wife, Molly Crowfoot, a noted expert in textiles, crafts and botany, John Crowfoot conducted excavations at Mount Ophel, Jerusalem (1927–1929), Jerash (1928–1930) and Samaria (1930–1935).<ref>Crowfoot, E. 1990. Crowfoot, John Winter, in E. Meyers (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (Vol 2), 72-73; Crowfoot, E. 1997. Grace Mary Crowfoot 1877-1957. Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology. [Online], available at Brown University. https://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/search.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608201242/http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/search.php |date=2011-06-08 }}.</ref> Dorothy Garrod, who excavated at Mount Carmel as a BSAJ student in 1929 along with Mary Kitson-Clark and Elinor Ewbank, produced evidence of the Natufian culture.<ref>Smith, P. 2001. Pioneers in Palestine: The Women Excavators of el-Wad Cave, in Whitehouse, R. Women in Archaeology and Antiquity. London: University College London</ref>
The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem had close ties to the American Schools of Oriental Research, led by archaeologist William Foxwell Albright, and the French École Biblique, through the Reverend Fathers Louis-Hugues Vincent, Raphaël Savignac and Félix-Marie Abel.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Viviano | first1 = B. T. | year = 1991 | title = Profiles of Archaeological Institutes: Ėcole Biblique et Archaeologique Française de Jerusalem | journal = Biblical Archaeologist | volume = 54 | issue = 3| pages = 160–167 | doi=10.2307/3210264| jstor = 3210264 | s2cid = 163407177 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = King | first1 = P. J. | year = 1984 | title = ASOR at 85 | journal = Biblical Archaeologist | volume = 47 | issue = 4| pages = 197–205 | doi=10.2307/3209902| jstor = 3209902 | s2cid = 135017005 }}</ref>
In 1998 the BSAJ merged with the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History to form the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and in 2001 was renamed the Kenyon Institute, after Kathleen Kenyon, to reflect the wider range of disciplines supported by the institute as part of the CBRL.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About us {{!}} CBRL |url=https://cbrl.ac.uk/about-us |website=cbrl.org.uk |access-date=2015-06-14 |archive-date=2019-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406000206/http://cbrl.ac.uk/about-us |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Notable people==
'''Directors'''
* John Garstang (1919–1926) * John Winter Crowfoot (1926–1935)<ref>{{cite web|title=John Winter Crowfoot, 1873-1959|url=http://www.pef.org.uk/profiles/john-winter-crowfoot-1873-1959|website=Profiles|publisher=The Palestine Exploration Fund|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615013621/http://www.pef.org.uk/profiles/john-winter-crowfoot-1873-1959|archive-date=15 June 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> * Philip Guy (1935–1939)<ref>{{cite web|title=Lt. Col. Philip Langstaffe Ord Guy, 1885-1952|url=https://www.pef.org.uk/profiles/lt-col-philip-langstaffe-ord-guy-1885-1952|website=Profiles|publisher=The Palestine Exploration Fund|access-date=27 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728035759/https://www.pef.org.uk/profiles/lt-col-philip-langstaffe-ord-guy-1885-1952|archive-date=28 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> * George Kirk (1940–1947)<ref name=L1>{{cite web |title=Kenyon Institute |url=http://cbrl.ac.uk/kenyon-institute |publisher=Council for British Research in the Levant |access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref> * ''Vacant'' * Kathleen Kenyon (1952–1966)<ref name=L1 /> * Basil Hennessy (1966–1970)<ref name=L1 /> * Crystal Bennett (1970–1979)<ref>{{cite web|title=Crystal-M Bennett|url=https://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/results.php?d=1&first=Crystal-M&last=Bennett|website=Women in Old World Archaeology|publisher=Brown University|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055507/http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/results.php?d=1&first=Crystal-M&last=Bennett|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wilkinson" /> * John Donald Wilkinson (1979–1984)<ref name="Wilkinson">{{Cite journal|last=Pringle|first=Denys|date=2017-09-02|title=The Revd John Donald Wilkinson (1929–2018)|journal=Levant|language=en|volume=49|issue=3|pages=233–236|doi=10.1080/00758914.2017.1441222|issn=0075-8914|doi-access=free}}</ref> * Richard P. Harper (1984–1998) * Joanne Clarke (1998–2001)<ref name=L1 /> * ''Vacant'' * Yuri Stoyanov (2006–2008)<ref name=L1 /> * Jaimie Lovell (2008–2010)<ref name=L1 /> * Omar Shweiki (Acting Director, 2011–2012)<ref name=L1 /> * Mandy Turner (2012–2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=Mandy Turner |url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Author/4468 |website=Jadaliyya |access-date=30 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * Toufic Haddad (2020–2024)<ref>{{cite web|title=Staff at the Kenyon Institute|url=http://cbrl.org.uk/kenyon-institute/staff-at-the-kenyon-institute|website=Kenyon Institute|publisher=Council for British Research in the Levant|access-date=30 December 2020|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026002322/http://cbrl.org.uk/kenyon-institute/staff-at-the-kenyon-institute}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/shame |title=Shame!|last=Haddad|first=Toufic|date=December 1, 2024 |website=Verso Books |publisher= |access-date=December 12, 2024}}</ref>
'''Other''' * Peter Ackroyd, Chairman of the Council from 1979 to 1983
==See also== * Albright Institute of Archaeological Research {{Portal|History}}
==Further reading== * {{cite journal | last1 = Gibson | first1 = S | year = 1999 | title = ''British Archaeological Institutions in Mandatory Palestine, '' 1917-1948 | journal = Palestine Exploration Quarterly | volume = 131 | issue = 2 | pages = 115–143 | doi=10.1179/peq.1999.131.2.115}} * Thornton, A. 2009. "Archaeological Training in Mandate Palestine: The BSAJ Minute Books at the PEF," available at: http://www.pef.org.uk/archive/. * {{cite journal | last1 = Thornton | first1 = A | year = 2012 | title = Archaeologists-in-Training: Students of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1920-1936 | journal = Journal of Open Archaeology Data | volume = 1| pages = e1| doi = 10.5334/4f293686e4d62 | doi-access = free }} * {{cite journal |author=British Academy |year=2018 |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/origins-british-school-archaeology-jerusalem |title=The origins of a British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem |journal=British Academy Review |volume=33|author-link=British Academy }} * Yucel, I. "[https://www.academia.edu/33748590/the_British_School_of_Archaeology_in_Jerusalem_in_the_wake_of_the_WWI_1_I._D%C3%BCnya_Sava%C5%9F%C4%B1_Sonras%C4%B1_Kud%C3%BCs_%C4%B0ngiliz_Arkeoloji_Okulunun_Kurulu%C5%9Fu_ve_Faaliyetleri The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem in the wake of the WWI.]" History Studies, 9/2, 2017.
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