Gil Gambash

Gil Gambash is a professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology. Focusing on the coastal Southern Levant in antiquity, he currently studies environmental and economic topics in the history and archaeology of harbour sites between Gaza and Akko. He is the former Chair of the Department of Maritime Civilizations and former Director of the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. He is the co-founder and former Director of the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History. In recent years, he was Leverhulme visiting professor at the School of Advanced Study in London, and fellow and group leader at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.