Craig Tyson, PhD

Dr. Tyson loves to investigate religion through historical, archaeological, and anthropological lenses. He teaches classes on Ethics; Belief and Unbelief; the Bible; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and the Holocaust. He is a member of an archaeological team that excavates in Jordan.

• Ph.D., Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History, University of Michigan, 2011
• A.M., Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 2006
• Archaeological Field School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005
• M.A., Old Testament Studies, Summa Cum Laude, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2004
• M.Div., Biblical Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2004
• B.A., Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, Grove City College, 1998

• VPAA Research Release Award, D’Youville University, Fall 2023.
• Faculty Research Grant (for excavations in Jordan), D’Youville University, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022.
• Faculty Council David Kelly Research Fellowship, D’Youville University, 2014
• Donald LeRoy Waterman Fellowship in Biblical Studies, University of Michigan, Winter Term 2011.
• Sweetland Writing Center Dissertation Writing Institute, University of Michigan, May–June 2010.
• Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2007–2010.
• Honors Program Fellow, University of Michigan, 2008–2010.
• Margaret Kraus Ramsdell Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2008–2009.
• Horace H. Rackham Graduate School Discretionary Fund (for archaeological excavation), University of Michigan, Summer 2005, 2007.
• Department of Near Eastern Studies Summer Fellowship (for archaeological excavation), University of Michigan, 2005, 2007.
• Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Research Grant (for archaeological excavation), University of Michigan, 2005.
• Department of Near Eastern Studies Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004–2005.

History, archaeology, religion, and culture of Bronze and Iron Age Jordan; the site of Khirbat al-Baluʿa, Jordan; ancient empires; secondary state formation; Hebrew Bible.

• Monique D. Roddy, Kent V. Bramlett, Friedbert Ninow, and Craig W. Tyson. “The Qasr at Baluʿa.” In “And in length of days, understanding” (Job 12:12)—Essays on Archaeology in the 21st Century in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, edited by Erez Ben-Yosef and Ian W. N. Jones. Springer Nature, 2023.
• Craig W. Tyson. “Religion of Ammon.” In Database of Religious History. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0422128
• Craig W. Tyson. “Archaeology and Material Culture of Ammon and the Ammonites.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies. Ed. Christopher Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 24 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195393361-0279
• Craig W. Tyson and Friedbert Ninow. “A Basalt Volute Capital Fragment from Khirbat al-Balu‘a, Jordan.” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 135 (2019): 158–167, Tafeln 21–22.
• Craig W. Tyson. “The Religion of the Ammonites: A Specimen of Levantine Religion from the Iron Age II (ca. 1000–500 BCE).” Religions 10 (2019): Article 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10030153
• Craig W. Tyson and Virginia Rimmer Herrmann (eds.). Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2018.
• https://dyc.academia.edu/CraigTyson