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.
Education Training
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
Awards Honors
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.
Research Interests
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.
Publications
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.
