Jeffrey R. Chadwick

Who is Jeffrey R. Chadwick?

Jeffrey R. Chadwick is a professional archaeologist and university professor. He serves as Jerusalem Center Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center in Israel, and as Associate Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University in Utah, USA. He is also senior field archaeologist and director of excavations in Area F at the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project in Israel.

Chadwick is a native of Ogden, Utah, and a graduate of Ben Lomond High School. He served an LDS mission in West Germany and West Berlin during the mid-1970s. He received a BA in Political Science and German from Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, and an MA in International Relations and Near Eastern Studies from BYU in Provo, Utah. He studied near eastern archaeology, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Egyptian in Israel at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and took his PhD in Archaeology and Near Eastern Languages from the University of Utah Middle East Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Chadwick began teaching for BYU’s Jerusalem Center programs in 1982, and has taught and researched in Israel annually since then.