Professional Activities :

•   Faculty Committees:

Kentucky Christian College
Academic Technology Committee 1998-2001, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee 1998-2001, Appeals Committee 2000-2001, Strategic Planning Committee 2001-2002, Graduate Studies Committee 2002-2003, Faculty Development Committee 2003-

Roanoke Bible College
Program Advisor, Class Sponsor, Faculty Representative to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation Committee, Library Committee, Rules Committee

•  Project Leader: The Virtual Karak Resources Project, Three year $110,200 Mellon Foundation grant to promote teaching and technology in the classroom for undergraduate classes using material from the Karak Resources Project (www.vkrp.org)

•    Project Leader: The Virtual Karak Resources Project, One Year $50,000 Grant Extension and Expansion Grant funding by the Mellon Foundation. 

•    Listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers, 2000

•    President, Near East Archaeological Society, 1998-2001

•    Planned and coordinated a cross-cultural Middle East Study Tour, with Lee University Summers 2000 and 2001. Toured to historical and archaeological sites in Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt.

•   Carnagey Travel Grant, Appalachian College Association, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001.

•    Editor, Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, 1996-1998.

•    Book Review Editor,  Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, 1991-1998.

•    Committee on Publications, Member, Near East Archaeological Society, 1993-present

•    Assistant Secretary, Board of Trustees Near East Archaeological Society, 1993-1998.

•    Trustee, Near East Archaeological Society, 1992-present

•    Listed in Who's Who of Biblical Studies and Archaeology, Second Edition, Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993

•   Travel Grants:
Endowment for Biblical Research, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research, Summer 1988 and Summer 1990 awarded for participation in the Abila of the Decapolis Excavation, Northern Jordan.  $1000 each time

•   Graduate Achievement Awards:
Miami University, Fall 1989, campus-wide competition for graduate student achievement in their research areas.  Awarded for my article "Area A, Tell Abil: Preliminary Report of the 1988 Excavation Season,"  Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, Nos. 32-33, Winter 1989.   

Miami University, Fall 1990, awarded for 18 articles written for The Anchor Bible Dictionary, New York: Doubleday, 1992. $300 each time

•   Session Chair:
Near East Archaeological Society Annual Meeting in Kansas City, 1991

•  Co-coordinator:
Biblical Archaeology Exposition, NACC Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1987

•   Graduate Studies Committee:
Ph.D. student representative, Miami University, 1991-92

•   Graduate Student Government:
History Department representative to the Miami University Graduate Student Association, 1988-90

Graduate Student Council, Cincinnati Christian Seminary, 1982-85, President 1984-85

•   Public Lectures:

Miami University Speaker's Bureau, 1988-Present, topics include "A Day at the Dig", "Jerusalem Then and Now", and "Sailing with Saint Paul"