Helen Dixon is an interdisciplinary scholar of the Near East and ancient Mediterranean, specializing in Levantine Phoenician religion and material culture of the first millennium BCE. Her research has evolved from archaeological excavation, museum study, and archive work in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Türkiye, and Greece, and focuses on how Phoenicians and their neighbors shaped and negotiated their social identities in both life and death. She serves as Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she teaches Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, and public history. Her previous appointments include positions at Wofford College, the University of Helsinki, and North Carolina State University, as well as a residential fellowship at the Getty Villa in 2022.
Helen Dixon
