August 2021

Curriculum Vitae

1. Personal Data
Name in Hebrew: ‫ד"ר קשטן נדב‬
Name in English: Kashtan Nadav, Ph.D.
Department/School: Department of Conservation Studies
E-Mail: nadavk@wgalil.ac.il

2. Education Certificates and Degrees

Education Institute Department Year

First Degree University of Haifa General History & Education 1977

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Second Degree University of Haifa General History 1982

Third Degree Université des Sciences Sciences de l'Antiquité 1989

Humaines Strasbourg, France
S Humaines, Humaines,
HHumaines, Strasbourg,
3. France “La côte septentrionale de la Palestine de 332 a.C. à 70 p.C. - les
Title of Doctoral Thesis:
villes, le littoral et la mer" (The Northern Coast of ancient Palestine from 332 BCE to 70
CE: the cities, the littoral and the sea)
Supervisors: Prof. Edmond Frezouls (Strasbourg) &Prof. Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Paris)

4. Academic Ranks (Last 5 years)

Institute
Rank % Position From
Senior Lecturer 100% 2008 Western Galilee College

5. Scientific Areas of Specialization

Ancient Mediterranean civilizations and their relation to the sea; ships and port cities in the
Greco-Roman era; the relation of Jews and the Land of Israel to the sea; museums and their
heritage
6. Academic Profile
Research work on Jews and their relation to the sea in Greco-Roman times; the maritime
cities of the Land of Israel, material heritage and them inter cultural role, based on literary
and archaeological sources. Examples: Jaffa and Akko (Acre). Ships, storms and seafaring
in the ancient Mediterranean. Another field of interest, the museum and its heritage, past and
present. This includes a research project, combining AI (Artificial Intelligence), archaeology
and museum studies. The research was carried out at the Hecht Museum, University of
Haifa, as part of international projects dealing with implementing new technologies in
cultural heritage. Future research will deal with issues relating the heritage of maritime cities
and its conservation.

7. Recent Publications
Kashtan, N. (2013). The Sailing Routes of Herod: Between Judaea and Rome. Michmanim,
University of Haifa, Reuben & Edith Hecht Museum, 24, 19-28. (In Hebrew, abstract in
English).
Stock, O., Kuflik, T., Zancanaro, M., Goren-Bar, D., Gorfinkel, A., Jbara, S., Katz, S.,
Sheidin J., & Kashtan, N. (2014). Design and Evaluation of a Visitor Guide in an Active
Museum. In: N. Dershowitz & E. Nissan (Eds.), Language, Culture, Computation.
Computing of the Humanities, Law and Narratives, (Part II, 47-71). Springer Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg.
Kashtan, N. (2016). Akko-Ptolemais - A Maritime City at the Crossroads of Ancient
Civilizations until Roman Times. In: M. Hartal, D. Syon, E. Stern & A.Tatcher (Eds.), Akko
II (IAA Reports 60), (1-5).

8. Important Publications
Kashtan, N. (1988). Akko-Ptolemais: a Maritime Metropolis in Hellenistic and Early Roman
Times, 332 BCE - 70 CE, as Seen through the Literary Sources. Mediterranean Historical
Review, 3(1), 37-53.
Kashtan, N. (Ed.). (2001). Seafaring and the Jews. London: Frank Cass.
Kashtan, N. (2001). Seafaring and Jews in Graeco-Roman Palestine: Realistic and Symbolic
Dimensions. In: N. Kashtan (Ed.), Seafaring and the Jews (16-28). London.