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1 DAVIDE MARCO ZORI CURRICULUM VITAE March 3, 2016 Baylor Interdisciplinary Core One Bear Place #97350 phone: Morrison Hall Baylor University Waco, Texas ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014 Present Assistant Professor, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, Honors College Baylor University Postdoctoral Staff Researcher UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannís) EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Interdepartmental Archaeology Program, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Dissertation Title: From Viking Chiefdoms to Medieval State in Iceland: The Evolution of Power Structures in the Mosfell Valley 2004 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles Interdepartmental Archaeology Program, Costen Institute of Archaeology 2002 B.A. University of Florida (Phi Beta Kappa) History and Anthropology. Minors: Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Italian RESEARCH FOCI Viking Age Scandinavia and the North Atlantic; historical archaeology; political economy in chiefdom level societies; social power and inequality; colonization of virgin environments; integration of archaeology and texts; Old Norse GRANTS AND AWARDS 2015 Summer Sabbatical, Honors College, Baylor University Co PI, German Research Foundation (DFG) Schwerpunktprogramm 1630/0, The Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project: Interdisciplinary 1 Zori, Tenure Resume

2 Archaeological Examination of a Viking Harbor and Its Hinterland in Iceland, 360, Co PI, Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannís), Project Grant: The Mosfell Archaeological Project: Archaeology, Science and History, $168, Co PI, UC Office of President, Pilot Project Grant: GIS informed Databases for Research Dissemination in Archaeology and the Humanities, $20, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, tuition and $30,000 per year Fulbright Foundation Fellow, Iceland, $15, Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA tuition and $18, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance, Research Stipend, $ UCLA Archaeology Program research supplement, $ UCLA Friends of Archaeology summer fellowships, $1500 yearly Various awards from the University of Florida: University Scholar Award ($3000); International Center ($1000); CLAS Scholarships ($1250, $1200) 2001 Phi Beta Kappa (University of Florida) PUBLICATIONS Books 2014 Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project. Davide Zori and Jesse Byock (eds.) Brepols Publishers, Turnhout. Peer reviewed Journal Articles Submitted. Integrated GPR and archaeological investigations reveal internal structure of man made Skiphóll mound in Leiruvogur, Iceland. Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Davide Zori, Sven Kalmring, Wolfgang Rabbel, and Jesse Byock. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Forthcoming 2016 The Norse in Iceland. Davide Zori. Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2016 Crusader Clenched Ship Nails and the First Evidence of Crusader Steel from Jaffa, Israel. Brett Kauffman, Davide Zori, Aaron Burke, and Martin Peilstöcker. Historical Metallurgy 47 (2):???? Gift Exchange with the Saintly Dead in Medieval Icelandic Miracle Stories. Davide Zori. Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 47 (1): On the Ability of Geophysical Methods to Image Medieval Turf Houses in Iceland. Tina Wunderlich, Dennis Wilken, Jasmin Andersen, Wolfgang Rabbel, Davide Zori, Sven Kalmring, Jesse Byock. Archaeological Prospection 22: Zori, Tenure Resume

3 2015 Imaging the 1500 AD Katla tephra inside the Leiruvogur Inner Skiphóll harbour using GPR. Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Wolfgang Rabbel, Davide Zori, Sven Kalmring and Jesse Byock. Archaeologia Polona 53: Mapping medieval turf buildings with geophysical methods. Tina Wunderlich, Dennis Wilken, Jasmin Andersen, Wolfgang Rabbel, Davide Zori, Sven Kalmring and Jesse Byock. Archaeologia Polona 53: Feasting in Viking Age Iceland: Sustaining a Chiefly Political Economy in a Marginal Environment. Davide Zori, Jesse Byock, Egill Erlendsson, Steven Martin, Thomas Wake, and Kevin Edwards. Antiquity 87 (335): Diatoms as Bioindicators of Site Use: Locating Turf Structures from the Viking Age. Rhonda Bathurst, Davide Zori, and Jesse Byock. Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (11): Metallurgical Findings from a Viking Age Chieftain s Farm in Iceland. Sebastian Wärmländer, Davide Zori, Jesse Byock, and David Scott. Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (9): Nails, Rivets, and Clench Bolts: A Case for Typological Clarity. Davide Zori. Archaeologia Islandica 6: Valdamiðstöð í Mosfellsdal: Rannsóknir á Fornleifum frá Tímum Víkinga að Hrísbrú og Mosfelli. Jesse Byock, Phillip Walker, Jon Erlandson, Per Holck, Davide Zori, Magnús Guðmundsson, and Mark Tveskov. Ólafía Rit Fornleifafræðingafélags 2: A Viking Age Valley in Iceland: The Mosfell Archaeological Project. Jesse Byock, Phillip Walker, Jon Erlandson, Per Holck, Davide Zori, Magnús Guðmundsson, and Mark Tveskov. Medieval Archaeology 49: A Viking Age farm, church, and cemetery at Kirkjuhóll, Mosfell Valley, Iceland. Byock J, Walker P, Erlandson J, Holck P, Eng J, Tveskov M, Sigurgeirsson M, Lambert P, Moss M, Prizer K, Reid M, Zori D, Byock A, and Fyllingen H. Antiquity, Vol. 77 No. 297 (Project Gallery). Peer reviewed Book Chapters Submitted Finding Leiruvogur Harbor, a Viking Age Harbor in the Icelandic North Atlantic at the Mouth of the Mosfell Valley. Title to be determined, eds. Lukas Werther and Sven Kalmring, pp.?? Romano Germanic Central Museum Press (RGZM), Mainz. Forthcoming 2016 Steel Nails from the Be eri Excavations in Jaffa as Evidence of Crusader Ships of the Northern European Ship building Tradition. Davide Zori and Brett Kauffman. The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project Series. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press The Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project: Interdisciplinary Archaeological Examination of a Viking Harbor and Its Hinterland in Iceland. Jesse Byock, 3 Zori, Tenure Resume

4 Davide Zori, Claus von Carnap Bornheim, Sven Kalmring, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Wolfgang Rabbel, David Höft, Sigrid Hansen, and Ralph Schneider. Häfen im 1. Millennium A.D. Bauliche Konzepte, herrschaftliche und religiöse Einflüsse, eds. T. Schmidts and M. Vučetić, pp Romano Germanic Central Museum Press (RGZM), Mainz Geophysikalische Prospektion von Hafensituationen Möglichkeiten, Anwendungen und Forschungsbedarf. Wolfgang Rabbel, Dennis Wilken, Tina Wunderlich, Steve Bödecker, Helmut Brückner, Jesse Byock, Claus von Carnap Bornheim, Sven Kalmring, Martina Karle, Heike Kennecke, Sebastian Messal, Thomas Schmidts, Martin Seeliger, Martin Segschneider, and Davide Zori. Häfen im 1. Millennium A.D. Bauliche Konzepte, herrschaftliche und religiöse Einflüsse, eds. T. Schmidts and M. Vučetić, pp Romano Germanic Central Museum Press (RGZM), Mainz Interdisciplinary Modelling of Viking Age and Medieval Settlement in the Mosfell Valley. Davide Zori. Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: the Mosfell Archaeological Project, pp Brepols Publishers, Turnhout Viking Foodways at Hrísbrú. Davide Zori, Thomas Wake, Jon Erlandson, and Rúnar Leifsson. Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project, pp Brepols Publishers, Turnhout Introduction to Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland s Mosfell Valley. Jesse Byock and Davide Zori. Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project, pp Brepols Publishers, Turnhout Egil s Grave? Archaeology and the Egil s Sagas at Kirkjuhóll, Hrísbrú. Jon Erlandson, Jesse Byock, and Davide Zori. Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project, pp Brepols Publishers, Turnhout Artefacts from the Viking Age Longhouse at Hrísbrú. Sigrid Hansen, Davide Zori, and Jesse Byock. Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project, pp Brepols Publishers, Turnhout Interpreting Social Space and Social Status in the Viking Age House at Hrísbrú Using Integrated Geoarchaeological and Microrefuse Analyses. Karen Milek, Davide Zori, Jesse Byock, Waltraud Baeier, Kate Baker, and Colin Connors. Viking Age Archaeology in Iceland: Mosfell Archaeological Project, pp Brepols Publishers, Turnhout The Axed Man of Mosfell: Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Homicide and the Icelandic Sagas. Phillip Walker, Jesse Byock, Jacqueline Eng, Jon Erlandson, Per Holck, Henry Schwarz, and Davide Zori. The Bioarchaeology of Individuals, eds. Stodder and Palkovich, pp University of Florida Press, Gainesville Introduction. Davide Zori and Jesse Byock. Grettir s Saga, pp. vii xxv. Oxford University Press. 4 Zori, Tenure Resume

5 Non Peer reviewed Articles 2015 The Leiruvogur 2014 field campaign and the Ship Mound. Sven Kalmring and Davide Zori. Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie: Jahrebericht 2014, p Viking Archaeology, Sagas, and Interdisciplinary Research in Iceland s Mosfell Valley. Jesse Byock and Davide Zori. Backdirt 2013: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp In Preparation Feasting with Early Medieval Chiefs: Locating Political Action through Environmental Archaeology. Davide Zori. Early Medieval Europe. Bayesian Chronologies at Hrísbrú in the Mosfell Valley, Iceland. Magdalena Schmid, Cathy Batt, Davide Zori, Egill Erlendsson, Jesse Byock, and Brian Damiata. Radiocarbon. Infection in Secondary Burials in a Viking Age Icelandic Cemetery: Insights into Conversion Era Disease and Religious Belief. Jacqueline Eng, Phillip Walker, Jesse Byock, Rebecca Richman, Davide Zori, and Per Holck. Journal of Archaeological Science. TEACHING Primary Instructor World Cultures I (Ancient) Baylor Interdisciplinary Core Social World I Baylor Interdisciplinary Core World Cultures II (Medieval) Baylor Interdisciplinary Core The Vikings History Department, Baylor Scandinavian/English, UCLA Medieval Archaeology History & Archaeology, University of Iceland Prehistoric Europe Anthropology, UCLA Extension Archaeology of the Viking Age Anthropology, UCLA Extension Teaching Assistant 2008, 2009 Introduction to Scandinavian Literature and Culture (UCLA) 2004, 2006 Vikings: History and Civilization (UCLA) 2003 Introduction to Archaeology (UCLA) 2002 Discovering the Romans (UCLA) CONFERENCES AND LECTURES Invited Lectures 5 Zori, Tenure Resume

6 2016 Search for a Viking Harbor in Iceland: The Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project. Scandinavian Friends Society of Central Texas. February The Vikings and their Trans Atlantic Diaspora. Scandinavian Friends Society of Central Texas. February The Settlement of Iceland. Central Texas Archaeological Society. Nov The Viking Settlement of Iceland and the Emergence of New Power Structures. Baylor University, Texas. January Feasting in the Archaeological Record of Medieval Europe. The Reykjavík Academy Lecture Series. October Archaeology and the Politics of Feasting in the Early Middle Ages. The Strengleikar Medieval Seminar. University of Iceland. September What was Life Like in the Mosfell Valley in the Viking Age? The Kjalarnes Community Historical Society (Sögufélag Kjalarnesþings), Iceland, April Viking Age Feasting and Political Economics in the Mosfell Valley, University of Iceland, Archaeology Department, May Archaeological Discoveries in the Mosfell Valley. Reykjavík Academy. May Chiefly Power in the Mosfell and Hjalta Valleys. UCLA Director s Council of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, November. Conference Papers 2016 Advances in Viking Archaeology: Aligning Data, Theory, and the Interdisciplinary Perspective. Society for American Archaeology. Orlando. April From Ale feasts in Mead halls to Barley Seeds and Cattle Bones: Archaeological Approaches to understanding the Power of the Early Medieval Feast. Southeastern Medieval Association. Little Rock, Arkansas. October Mapping medieval turf buildings with geophysical methods (with Tina Wunderlich, Dennis Wilken, Jasmin Andersen, Wolfgang Rabbel, Sven Kalmring, Jesse Byock). Poster Presentation, International Conference on Archaeological Prospection. Warsaw, September Finding the Viking Harbor at Leiruvogur, Iceland. German National Science Foundation (DFG) Harbor Research Network Jena, Germany, January Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project: Interdisciplinary Archaeological Examination of a Viking Harbor and Its Hinterland in Iceland. German National Science Foundation (DFG) Harbor Research Network Jena, Germany, January Gift Exchange with the Saintly Dead in Medieval Icelandic Miracle Stories. 49 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May Zori, Tenure Resume

7 2014 Untersuchung der geophysikalischen Detektierbarkeit von Torfhäusern auf Island (with Tina Wunderlich, Dennis Wilken, Jasmin Andersen, Wolfgang Rabbel, Sven Kalmring, Jesse Byock). German Geophysical Society, March Feasting with Early Medieval Chiefs: Locating Political Action through Environmental Archaeology. 48 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May Historical and Iconographical Sources for the Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft s Priority Program: Häfen von der Römischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter. Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven, Germany, January Identification of Archaeological Features: The Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft s Priority Program: Häfen von der Römischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter. Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven, Germany, January Viking Age and Medieval Settlement in the Mosfell Valley. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ahmanson Conference Series, May Mapping and Documenting a Viking Age Valley System through GIS (Poster with S. Parfenov, C. Schenk, V. Miglio, and J. Byock), Mapping Place: GIS and Spatial Humanities, University of California, Santa Barbara, February Excavation of the Viking Age Farmstead at Hrísbrú, Society for American Archaeology, 73 rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, March A Viking Longhouse at Hrísbrú, Iceland: Discovery and Dating (with Jon Erlandson, Jesse Byock, and Phillip Walker), Society for American Archaeology, 73 rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, March Evolving Power Structures in the Hjalta and Mosfell Valleys during the Medieval Period, The Nordic Network International Conference, Hólar, Iceland, March Recent Excavations in Mosfellsdalur: The Mosfell Archaeological Project (with Jesse Byock), Congress on Nordic Culture in the Viking Age and Medieval Times, Hólar University, August The First Churches in Iceland, 40 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May The Artifacts from Viking Hrísbrú, Society for American Archaeology, 69 th Annual Meeting, Montreal, March 31 April Life at Hrísbrú: An Analysis of Artifacts from a Viking Age Ritual Site, The UCLA Friends of Archaeology 17 th Annual Symposium, March Circular Forts and State Formation in Medieval Denmark, 37 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2 5. LANGUAGES 7 Zori, Tenure Resume

8 Danish native speaking, reading writing; Italian speaking, reading, writing; Icelandic speaking, reading; Norwegian reading, understanding; Swedish reading, understanding; Spanish reading, understanding; German reading; Latin reading; Old Norse reading RESEARCH AND FIELD EXPERIENCE Field Director 2006 current Mosfell Archaeological Project, Iceland 2012 current Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project, Iceland 2013 Cultural Resource Management Assessment, Krikahverfi, Iceland. Director and Co PI (with Lori Baker, Nathan Elkins, Alden Smith, and Colleen Zori) 2016 currnet San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project, Prov. Viterbo, Italy. Project Development 2014 current Baylor in Viterbo Archaeological Research Project. Viterbo, Italy. Staff Researcher 2009 Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Field School Instructor and Area Supervisor Hólar Archaeological Research Project, Iceland Field Archaeologist 2011 Marina California Police Department, Geophysics and excavation of suspected murder site SWCA Environmental Consultants, Field Technician, Blythe, CA 2009 Crow s Landing Cemetery, Archaeo geophysics Survey, California Mosfell Archaeological Project, Iceland 2005 Hólar Archaeological Project Excavation, Hólar, Iceland; July 2002 Granardkill Archaeological Excavation, Galway University, Ireland 2001 St. John s Archaeological Project, University of Florida 2000 Florida African Seminole Archaeology, University of Florida Archival Research National Archives, Iceland. Church charters, land registers, treaties 2003, 04 National Museum of Iceland. Viking Age iron artifacts 2001 National Museum of Denmark. Historical Site Records RESEARCH REPORTS SUBMITTED TO ICELANDIC GOVERNMENT 8 Zori, Tenure Resume

9 2014 Skiphóll Mound and Borg Highland Site Excavations, MAP 2014 Season. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock) Krikahverfi Archaeological Evaluation. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock) The Mosfell Archaeological Project, Research Report Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock) The Mosfell Archaeological Project 2010 and 2011 Seasons: Rescuing the Pagan Landscape through Survey and GIS. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock) The Mosfell Archaeological Project 2009 Field Season, July 8 August 7: Sub Surface Survey and Archival Research on Medieval Farms in the Mosfell Valley. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock) The Mosfell Archaeological Project 2008 Field Season, July 24 August 30: Excavation of the Viking Longhouse at Hrísbrú. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock) The Mosfell Archaeological Project 2007 Field Season, July 19 August 25: Excavation of Viking Longhouse at Hrísbrú and Investigations of Ship Setting. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock and Phillip Walker) The Mosfell Archaeological Project 2006 Field Season, July 22 August 14: Discovery of a Viking Longhouse. Submitted to Icelandic Cultural Heritage Protection Agency (with Jesse Byock and Phillip Walker). SERVICE SERVICE TO ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE Journal Reviewer Journal of Field Archaeology Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2) Scandinavian Journal of History (2) Journal of the North Atlantic Book Reviewer Brill Publishers, Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Routledge History Books: Medieval History Project Review and Contribution 2015 Templeton Foundation Grant. Project Reviewer. Defining Universal Patterns in the Emergence of Complex Societies. Iceland. Santa Fe Institute. Paula Sabloff (PI) Conference Organization 9 Zori, Tenure Resume

10 2011 Co organizer (with Jesse Byock) Viking Archaeology: The Mosfell Archaeological Project. UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ahmanson Conference Series, May 6 7, Chair and co organizer (with Rhonda Bathurst) Interdisciplinary Archaeology on Viking Age Iceland: The Mosfell Archaeological Project. Society for American Archaeology, 73 rd Annual Meeting, March Editorial Board 2009 Comitatus. A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 40. SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY 2014 current Phi Beta Kappa, faculty member 2015 current Phi Beta Kappa, Committee for Sponsorship of Invited Speakers 2014 current Development of Baylor in Viterbo, Italy Program. Advisory group, grant writing, budget negotiation, language facilitation, site visits current Advisory Board for Baylor s Institute of Archaeology (Anthro. Dept.) 2014 current Development of Baylor in Iceland Program 2016 Invitation to Excellence. Host of Table: Jan Invitation to Excellence. Host of Table: Nov. 20 SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT (BAYLOR INTERDISCIPLINARY CORE) 2014 present Phi Beta Kappa Representative for Baylor Interdisciplinary Core 2016 BIC Bowl 2015 Parents weekend 2015 Planned, led and guided World Cultures 2 Faculty Development Trip. Scandinavia (Iceland and Denmark). August Summer Recruitment at summer orientation: June 15, BIC Bowl 2014 Parents weekend 2014 Move in Day SERVICE TO CHURCH AND COMMUNITY 2014 current Knights of Columbus, St. Jerome Council Catholic Men s service Organization. Knight of the 1 st Degree. St. Jerome s Parish, Waco current Habitat for Humanity, Waco. Part of the Knights of Columbus Council men s group volunteers working as a unit Lector. Stations of the Cross, St. Jerome Church, Waco. Feb Multiple lectures to the Scandinavian Friends of Central Texas, Feb. 9, Sept Lecture to Scandinavian Friends of Central Texas. Feb Lecture to the Central Texas Archaeological Society. Nov Zori, Tenure Resume

11 Creation of a multimedia program covering local historical and archaeological research for Mosfellsbær public library and Bogarnes Settlement Museum, Iceland Lectures and program presentations to local elementary schools and afterschool programs in East Los Angeles and Mosfellsbær, Iceland. PRESS AND DOCUMENTARY FILM APPEARANCES 2016 Monthly Featured Scholar (Spring Quarter). Lone Medievalist. Website Featured. NPR s The Academic Minute by Inside Higher Education Featured Faculty Research. Baylor Magazine, Winter 2015 Issue 2010 The Saga of a Viking Longhouse. Directed by Adam Fish (UCLA) A Viking Landscape. Directed by Steven Ross (Ohio University). 11 Zori, Tenure Resume

DAVIDE MARCO ZORI CURRICULUM VITAE

DAVIDE MARCO ZORI CURRICULUM VITAE UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies email: dzori@ucla.edu 302 Royce Hall, Box 951485 phone: 011 354 695 4232 Los Angeles, CA 90095 1485 www.viking.ucla.edu/zori