Celia J. Bergoffen, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor | Art History and Museum Professions; History of Art

(212) 217-4645

Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B634

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Education

BFA, Concordia University
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Biography

In addition to teaching at FIT, Dr. Bergoffen is an academic archaeologist who has worked on excavations and surveys in Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Oman and Yemen. She has a business as a contract archaeologist in the New York City area; three of her local excavations were featured in articles in the New York Times. Her scholarly area of expertise is the Bronze Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean.

Dr. Bergoffen has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and one monograph and has also written popular history and archaeology articles as well newspaper reviews. She regularly presents papers at international conferences and is actively involved in contributing to the final publications of several excavations in Israel.

Dr. Bergoffen has been teaching in the History of Art Department at FIT since 1995 and has taught in the Honors Program. She has created four new courses, two in-person and two online, and co-authored a fifth. 

The History of Art Department awarded Dr. Bergoffen the George Dorsch Fellowship twice, in 2005 and 2019, to work on publications, while the CET has awarded her four research grants to participate in excavations and research in Turkey and Israel, and twenty travel grants to present papers at conferences.

Selected Publications

The Bronze Age Cypriot Pottery from Sir Leonard Woolley’s Excavations at Tell Atchana / Alalakh. Vienna: Austrian Science Foundation, 2005. 

"The Middle to Late Bronze Age Transition at Tell el-'Ajjul in the light of Exchanges between Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean", in: Hausleiter, A. (ed.) "Material Worlds: interdisciplinary approaches to Contacts and Exchange in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the Workshop held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University, 7th March 2016. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. 

"The Eldridge Street Synagogue's Mikveh (New York, c. 1887)," pp. 250-253 in: Leibman, L. and Brodsky, A. (eds.), Jews Across the Americas: 1492-Present. New York University Press, 2023. 

"The Pictorial White Painted Handmade Ware I "Bird and Palm Tree" Krater from Enkomi," pp. 173-186, in: Walter Crist and Zuzana Chovanec (eds.), All Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny. CAARI Monograph Series 6. Alexandria, VA: American Society of Overseas Research, 2021.

"The Schnaderbeck Brewery's Lagerkeller in Williamsburg, Brooklyn", Brewery History (no. 186) 2021: 2-30. 

"The Ashdoda Figurine as Anthropomorphized Object”, pp. 283-293 in: I. Shai, J.R. Chadwick, L. Hitchcock, A. Dagan, C. McKinny, and J. Uziel (eds.), Tell it in Gath: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel. Essays in Honor of A. M. Maeir on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday." Ägypten Und Altes Testament 90, Münster: Zaphon, 2018.

Courses

  • HA 111 History of Western Art and Civilization: Ancient to Medieval
  • HA 121 Ancient Cities: the Eastern Mediterranean World
  • HA 218 Art and Myth in the Classical World
  • HA 227 Archaeological Excavation in Israel