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Dr. Robert Raymond Cargill is Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at The University of Iowa. He is a biblical studies scholar, classicist, archaeologist, author, and digital humanist. His research includes study in the Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, literary criticism of the Bible and the Pseudepigrapha, and the Ancient Near East. He has appeared as an expert on numerous television documentaries and specials and is an advocate for public higher education.

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Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Discovery Channel.

Dr. Robert R. Cargill

Dr. Robert R. Cargill at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Dr. Robert R. Cargill at Bet Shean

Biography

CHILDHOOD AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Dr. Robert R. Cargill was born in Van Nuys, California to Leonard and Sharon Cargill (née Costales). He is of Spanish descent on his mother's side, and Italian on his father's side, with the Cargill name being of Scottish origin. His family soon relocated to Madera, California, a small farm town in central California that they called home for 15 years. Dr. Cargill has experienced every level of public education in California. He attended John Adams Elementary, Thomas Jefferson Junior High, and Madera High School. At age 17, his family moved to nearby Fresno, California, where he graduated from Bullard High School. He turned down undergraduate admission offers to attend UC Berkeley, USC, and Pepperdine, choosing instead to attend local community college. By working the graveyard shift at a local Walgreens, Dr. Cargill put himself through Fresno City College, where he earned his A.A. degree and won a state championship in 1992 as a catcher with the baseball team. He then transferred to California State University, Fresno, where he pursued an education in the natural sciences. He followed a pre-medical curriculum and earned a Bachelor's degree in Human Physiology.

GRADUATE EDUCATION

Dr. Cargill then accepted the J.P. Sanders Scholarship to attend Pepperdine University, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Ministry and his seminary degree, the Master of Divinity. While studying biblical studies at Pepperdine, he began studying archaeology and ancient Near Eastern cultures under Dr. Randall Chesnutt and Dr. John F. Wilson. Also while at Pepperdine, he experienced the birth of his daughter, Talitha Joy. Dr. Cargill returned to Pepperdine in 2002 and taught courses in Hebrew Bible and New Testament at Pepperdine University. In 2004, he was hired by Academy Award winning actress Nicole Kidman to teach her history and religion of the Middle East. He then accepted a fellowship to attend the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned an M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations and his Ph.D. under Dr. William Schniedewind in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, with an emphasis in Second Temple period archaeology and biblical studies. His dissertation work focused on the archaeological remains of Khirbet Qumran, the site associated with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

CAREER

Dr. Cargill is Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa with an emphasis on the Digital Humanities. He has previously taught at Pepperdine, Azusa Pacific, Portland State, and UCLA, and has made some of his classes available to the public for free. He served as the Instructional Technology Coordinator for the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities from 2009-2011, where he oversaw the integration of technology into higher education classrooms and humanities research. Dr. Cargill was a Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Research Associate at UCLA, and was the Chief Architect and Designer of the Qumran Visualization Project, a real-time virtual reconstruction of the site of Qumran.

Dr. Cargill's first book, "Qumran through (Real) Time: A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls," examines the settlement of Khirbet Qumran using new technological approaches in the Digital Humanities including digital archaeological reconstruction and virtual reality. Dr. Cargill has appeared as an expert on numerous documentaries and television shows, including recently hosting the National Geographic special, “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls." He regularly lectures on topics concerning archaeology (including pseudoarchaeology and sensationalist archaeology), biblical studies, Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hellenistic Judaism and religious sects in the Second Temple period, linguistic ideology, and the digital humanities.

PERSONAL

Dr. Cargill was married to his partner, Roslyn, on March 20, 2010. He has a daughter, Talitha, and a son, MacLaren, and resides in Iowa City, IA. He is a Mensan and spends much of his spare time reading and hiking.

Areas of Interest

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

Dr. Cargill has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Central and South America, and the Middle East. Dr. Cargill began his archaeological career in 1999 as a Square Supervisor in the excavations at Banias, Israel (Golan Heights) with Dr. Vassilios Tzaferis and Dr. John F. Wilson. The next year he served as Area Supervisor at Banias. In 2004, he began work as a Square Supervisor for the excavations at nearby Omrit, Israel with Dr. Andy Overman. Most recently, Dr. Cargill participated in the excavations at Hatzor, Israel in 2006 with Dr. Amnon Ben-Tor. Dr. Cargill is a Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Research Associate at UCLA.

POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Politically, Dr. Cargill is a moderate independent and is unaffiliated with any American political party. He describes himself as a social progressive and a fiscal conservative. He is an ardent supporter of the separation of church and state and the separation of archaeology and religion. He has argued that science (and specifically archaeology) should not be used for evangelistic purposes, and regularly critiques those who attempt to use what he terms "pseudoscience" to make religious claims. Dr. Cargill was raised as a Christian and attended the University Church of Christ in Malibu, CA. He has stated that Christian insistence upon the "inerrancy and infallibility" of the Bible and a literal interpretation of the biblical text is greatly harming modern Christianity. He does not view stories of a biblical six-day creation and a Great Flood as historical. Dr. Cargill has written extensively in favor of gender equity within the church and against California Proposition 8, arguing that the state should not prohibit homosexual couples from marrying.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND BLOGGING

Dr. Cargill is a faculty member of the University of Iowa consortium on Public Humanities in a Digital World, and a member of the Digital Humanities Cluster Cohort for the University of Iowa Digital Studio for Public Humanities. Prior to coming to Iowa, Dr. Cargill worked for the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities as the Instructional Technology Coordinator. He is an avid blogger, writing at his official blog, XKV8R, accessible either via robertcargill.com or xkv8r.com. He is Chair of the American Schools of Oriental Research Media Relations Committee, and Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature Blogging and Online Publication Steering Committee. He has published and presented professional papers on issues dealing with blogging, online publication, and the future of instructional technology.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Dr. Cargill is a professional member of:

Society of Biblical Literature (Section chair)
American Schools of Oriental Research (Committee Chair)
Archaeological Institute of America (Member)
Association for Jewish Studies (Member)
Israel Exploration Society (Member)

He is also involved in other intellectual, social, and environmental organizations including:

American Mensa
National Geographic Society
Global Green USA
Ducks Unlimited
Sierra Club
Santa Monica Mountain Trails Council
and is a supporter of 89.3 KPCC - Southern California Public Radio and NPR.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research interests include the archaeology of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, virtual reality, digital modeling, archaeology of the Second Temple Period, Hebrew and Aramaic, literary criticism, biblical studies, the site of Banias, Israel (ancient Caesarea Philippi), the Bar Kokhba Rebellion, and classical Judean numismatics.

WIKIPEDIA INTERESTS

I follow closely the following articles:
Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour
Ark of the Covenant
Banias
Caesarea Philippi
Child sacrifice
Comma Johanneum
Dead Sea Scrolls
-- Copper Scroll
-- Genesis Apocryphon
Essenes
Human Sacrifice
Northwest Semitic languages
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Papal Conclave
Qumran
Virtual Qumran

External Links

The Official Website of Robert R. Cargill: www.bobcargill.com
The Official Blog of Dr. Robert R. Cargill
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Email
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Facebook
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Academia.edu
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on LinkedIn
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on YouTube
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Twitter
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Google
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on IMDb
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Picasa
Dr. Robert R. Cargill on Amazon

The UCLA Qumran Visualization Project: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Settlement at Qumran

Curriculum Vita

To view Dr. Cargill's C.V., click here

(For more on Dr. Robert R. Cargill, visit: http://www.bobcargill.com)

Selected Media Coverage

2011 - Casas, Flavia, "Tech-savvy Professors Take to Tweeting," Daily Bruin, Jan. 20, 2011. web

2010 - Horgan, Richard, "UCLA Prof Earns Doctorate in Self-Defense," Fishbowl LA, Nov. 23, 2010. web

2010 - Tugend, Tom, "Slander, Lies and the Dead Sea Scrolls," Jewish Journal, Nov. 23, 2010. web

2010 - "Cyber Bullying: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Criminal Case of Raphael Golb," UCLA Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2010 web

2010 - Selavan, Barnea and Dovid Willner, "Interview of Dr. Robert Cargill," LandMinds, Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio, Aug. 18, 2010. mp3 pt. 1 mp3 pt. 2

2010 - Abhold, Katrina, "Robert Cargill 'Star' of Fresno City Colleges," UCLA Today, Aug. 3, 2010. web

2010 - Than, Ker, "Biblical Mystery of Dead Sea Scrolls Solved?" National Geographic, July 27, 2010. web

2010 - Sullivan, Meg, "Scholar Highlights New Research on Dead Sea Scrolls in TV Special," UCLA Today, July 22, 2010. web

2010 - Tigay, Chanan, "Scholarly Squad Debunks Biblical 'Discoveries'," AOL News, May 2, 2010. web

2009 - Jarus, Owen, "Exclusive Interview: Dr. Robert Cargill on Virtual Reality Qumran," Heritage Key, July 20, 2009. web

2009 - Kolowich, Steve, "Harassment of Dead Sea Scroll Scholars Leads to Arrest of Professor's Son," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2009. web

2008 - Afron, Heidi, "קומראן בתלת-ממד" ("Qumran in Three-dimensions"), National Geographic Israel, June 2008. (Hebrew) web

2007 - Sanchez, Maria, "Interview with Robert Cargill," The Maria Sanchez Show, KTVA AM 1520, Dec. 27, 2007.

2007 - Whipps, Heather, "Warriors Once Occupied Dead Sea Scrolls Site," Live Science, July 12, 2007. web

2007 - Feuer, Jack, "On Exhibit: Ancient Qumran Comes Alive," UCLA Magazine, July, 1, 2007 web

2007 - Sullivan, Meg, "Virtual Qumran Sheds New Light On Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery Site," Science Daily, June 21, 2007 web

2007 - Tugend, Tom, "Armchair Archeologists Can Explore Qumran Virtually," Jewish Journal, June 14, 2007. web

Disclaimer

IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT ANY UPDATING/EDITING/COMPOSING I DO ON WIKI, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME ON MY DISCUSSION PAGE OR AT BOB(at)BOBCARGILL(dot)COM. PLEASE USE YOUR REAL NAME, A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS, AND PROVIDE OR LINK TO A C.V. OR RESUME.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE DO I DIALOG, BLOG, OR RESPOND TO ANONYMOUS PEOPLES HIDING IN THE SHADOWS, NOT HERE, NOT ANYWHERE. THANK YOU.