Thomas E. Levy is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, and the inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. 

Levy helped launch the Scripps Center of Marine Archaeology, emphasizing field work in Israel with the University of Haifa and Greece with the University of Patras to explore climate, environmental and social change in the eastern Mediterranean.  Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Charles University in the Czech Republic, Levy is a widely published Levantine field archaeologist with interests in the role of technology, particularly early mining and metallurgy, in the evolution of societies, with an emphasis on the eastern Mediterranean. 

Tom is the founder and Co-Director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.  Levy recently completed the third year of a $1.3 million Koret Foundation grant that focused on marine archaeology along Israel’s Carmel coast. with Professor Assaf Yasur-Landau, Director, Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, University of Haifa.  Last year, Dr. Irwin Jacobs provided +$1 million for a new 3-year project for the UC San Diego – University of Haifa partnership that builds on the accomplishments of the Koret project.