Rate My Professor Katherine Adelsberger

Adelsberger has extensive field experience, co-directing the Dhiban Excavation and Development Project in central Jordan since 2009, participating in NYU Excavations at Amheida since 2010, and contributing to projects in Dakhleh Oasis, Kharga Oasis, Abydos, and Sai Island in Sudan, as well as local investigations at Green Oaks Field Station. Key publications include "Desert pavement development and landscape stability on the eastern Libyan Plateau, Egypt" (Geomorphology, 2009), "Paleolandscape and paleoenvironmental interpretation of spring-deposited sediments in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt" (Catena, 2010), "Mid-Holocene environmental change and human occupation at Sai Island, Sudan" (Geoarchaeology, 2020), "Bitumens from Tell Yarmuth (Israel) from 2800 BCE to 1100 BCE" (Organic Geochemistry, 2022), and "High Desert Near Abydos, Egypt" (Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa, 2023). Her awards encompass the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2003-2008), NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant (2014), Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2007), Claude C. Albritton, Jr. Award (2007), and multiple Knox College faculty grants. She serves on committees for the Geological Society of America Archaeological Geology Division and Society for American Archaeology, and holds memberships in Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.