CURRICULUM VITAE January 2013 David J. Johnson PERSONAL DATA: Address: Department of Anthropology Brigham Young University 948 SWKT Provo, Utah 84602 Tel. (801) 378-2l965 Citizen: U.S. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Utah (Anthropology), 1987 Dissertation: Nabataean Trade: Intensification and Culture Change. M.A., University of Utah (Anthropology), 1982 B.A., University of Utah (Chemistry), 1972. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2010-2012 Graduate Coordinator, Anthropology 2009-2011 FHSS College Research Committee 2006-2012 Dept. of Anthropology, Internship coordinator 2006-2012 Chairman, Rust and Shallit Trust Committee 2005 Undergraduate Research Committee, College of Family, Home and Social Sciences 2003-2004 Rust trust committee 2003-2005 Department Awards Committee 2002 Kennedy Center Research Grant Committee 2001-2004 Undergraduate Coordinator-Archaeology 1999-2005 Shallit Trust Committee 1995-2013 Associate Professor, Brigham Young University 1995-2001 Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Anthropology
1994-2000 Graduate Coordinator, Department of Anthropology 1989-2001 Committee on Archaeology, Brigham Young University (Chair, 1990-91). 1989-94 Asst. Professor of Anthropology, Brigham Young University. 1989-9 2 Academic Board, ARAM, Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies. 1987-88 Visiting Asst. Professor of Anthropology, Brigham Young University. Committee on Archaeology, Brigham Young University. 1986 Instructor, Introduction to World Prehistory, University of Utah. 1983-85 Instructor, Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, University of Utah. 1981-86 Teaching Asst., Cultural Anthropology / Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Utah. 1978 Instructor, Archaeology and the Bible, LDS Institute, SLC, UT. 1972-74 Science Instructor, U.S. Peace Corps, Uganda, Ethiopia. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE: 2006-2010 Co-Director, BYU Dhofar Expedition 2007 Field archaeologist, Excavations at Pollena Trocchia, Italy 1998-2001 Field Archaeologist, American Foundation for the Study of Man, Marib Expedition, Yemen 1997-2012 Director, B.Y.U. Wadi Mataha Expedition, Jordan 1989-2001 Co-Director, American Expedition to Petra, Jordan 1981-88 Asst to the Director, American Expedition to Petra,Jordan 1981-82 Asst to the Director, Tell El-Shuqafiya Expedition, Egypt 1981 Field Crew, Bear River Bird Refuge Archaeological Survey. Computer Encoder, Utah Archaeological Center MX Missile Project. 1980 Field Assistant, White Mesa Project. 1977-1978 Lab Staff, American Expedition to Petra. SCHOLARSHIPS: 1978-82 Federal Language Assistance Scholarship (Arabic).
PUBLICATIONS:PEER REVIEWED 2009 Subsurface Visualization Using Ground penetrating Radar for Archaeological site Preparation on the Northern Slope of Somma-Vesuvius: a Roman Site, Pollena Trocchia, Italy. Il Quarterio, Italian Journal of Quarternary Science. 2007 Five Rocks Cut Shaft Tombs from Wadi Mataha, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (with Julie Macdonald and Debra Harris) 2005 A New Nabataean Inscription from Wadi Mataha, Petra.( with Lamia el-khouri) Palestine Exploration Quarterly, vol.137,no.2, pp. 169-174. 2000 Survey and Excavations Temple of the Winged Lions Petra, Jordan. 1973-1990. with Philip C. Hammond. CD Rom Book. 1999 Preliminary Report on Brigham Young University's First Season of Excavation and Survey at Wadi Mataha, Petra, Jordan. ( with Joel Janetski, Michael Chazan, Sarah Witcher and Richard Meadow. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Vol XLIII,pp249-260 1998 Planning research on Oman, :The end of Lehi's Trail (with S.K.Brown, T. Ball, A. Green, and W. R. Phillips. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. Vol 7,1 pp. 2-21 1994 ' American Expedition to Petra, 1990-1993 Seasons" ( with P.C. Hammond) Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 333-343 1991 Archaeology", Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Press, pp. 62-63. 1990 " Nabataean Piriform Unguentaria", Aram, Journal of Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2:1&2, 235-248 1988 "A Second Nabataean Inscription from Tell Esh-Shuqafiya, Egypt (with Hammond, Jones and Feima), Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 269: 47-58. 1986 "A Religio-Legal Nabataean Inscription From the Atargatis / Al-'Uzza Temple at Petra" (with Hammond and Jones), Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 263: 77-80.
TECHNICAL REPORTS 2012 Petra Wadi Mataha in Archaeology in Jordan American Journal of Archaeology v. 116 no.4 p.734 2010 Petra. Wadi Mataha in Archaeology in Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology, v. 114, pp. 538-540 2010 Excavations in Wadi Mataha, Munjazat 2008 Excavations in Wadi Mataha, Munjazat v. 9, pp.93-94 2007 Excavations in Wadi Mataha, Munjazat V.8,p 64 2005 Excavations in Wadi Mataha, Munjazat V. 6, p. 63 2004 Excavations in Wadi Mataha in Munjazat V.4 p.44 2002 Excavations in Wadi Mataha in Munjazat, V.2 p.37. 2001 Excavations at Wadi Mataha in Munjazat, V.1, p.56 2001 Temple of the Winged Lions. Petra ( with P.C. and Lin Hammond ) in Archeology in Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology. V.105 pp. 452-453. 2000 Wadi Mataha, Petra, (with Joel Janetski) in Archaeology in Jordan American Journal of Archaeology v. 104 No. 3, p.567 1998 "Wadi Mataha, Petra " ( with Joel Janetski) in Archaeology in Jordan. American Journal of Archaeology, 102, pp. 578-579. 1994 "Petra, Temple of the Winged Lions" ( with P.C. Hammond) in Archeology in Jordan, American Journal of Archaeology, 98,pp. 542-543 1993 "`Petra, Temple of the Winged Lions" ( with P.C. Hammond ) in Archaeology in Jordan, American Journal of Archaeology, 97, pp. 508-509. Multi Media 2005 Journey of Faith, FARMS, Featured Scholar. DVD 2005 Golden Road, the Ancient Incense Trail. FARMS, Feature scholar, DVD
PAPERS PRESENTED: 2012 A Nabataean Chamber Tomb and Carved Block in Wadi Mataha, Petra, Jordan 1 st International Conference on the Nabataeans. Petra, Jordan 2011 Votive Offerings from Nabataean Open air Shrines and Burials in Wadi-al- Mataha, Petra, Jordan. at The Seminar for Arabian Studies. British Museum. London 2006 New Discoveries from Petra, Gods, Graves and Painted Bones. Invited Lecture Glenbow Musum of Art, Petra in Profile Series Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2006 Harpocrates, Bes, Bastet, Recent Evidence for Egyptian Deitities at Petra. Invited lecture, Mt. Royal College, Calgary, Canada. 2003 Petra and the Nabataeans as seen through the Lithographs of David Roberts Jan 16 th, 2003, Invited Lecture for the BYU Museum of Art. 2002 A Nabataean Tomb with a Figural Façade from Wadi Mataha at Annual Meetings of the American School of Oriental Research. Toronto, Canada 2001 Faces for the Dead. Nabataean Funerary Art from Wadi Mataha at Annual Meetings of the American School of Oriental Research. Boulder, Colorado 1999 "Excavation and Survey of Non-elite Nabataean Funerary, Domestic and Cultic Features, Wadi Mataha, Petra. at the Annual Meetings of the American School of Oriental Research. Cambridge,Mass. 1995 " Nabataean Ostraca and Inscribed Sherds from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra." at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Philadelphia, Penn. 1994 " Two recently excavated Nabataean Shrines from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra." at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Kansas City, Missouri. 1991 " Nabataean Amethyst Trade" at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. San Francisco, Cal. 1991 "Mass Spectroscopic and Pixie Analysis of Nabataean Pigments from Petra" at the Annual Meeting of Sigma Xi, University of Utah Chapter. 1989 "Nabataean Pyriform Unguentaria" at the First Internatioal Conference of ARAM, Oxford University. 1988 "Nabataean Trade and Economics: Intensification and Cultural Change" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians. 1985 "Nabataean Incense Trade: Economics and Change in the First Century A.D." at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
Conferences Organized 1997 "Petra and the Nabataeans". at Brigham Young University, Mar 15-16, 1997. Panel Discussant 1999 "Artifact and Faith" Conference of the Mormon Studies Association. April 1999 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Schools of Oriental Research Sigma Xi