I chose the academic track. As an undergraduate at Oxford University, Moore saw his first dig in the Mideast. That led to the excavation of Abu Hureyra in Syria, yielding the oldest evidence of farming in the world. As director of the Jericho Project, Moore surveys Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, and the surrounding Jordan Valley. The evolution of society in biological and ecological terms fascinates me . . .
Archaeology gets to our common humanity.
Understandings from our human past give us the self knowledge needed to survive and continue to thrive. Moore sees a future where the liberal-arts curriculum at RIT intertwines with technology, rather than sits alongside it. Students come to RIT with an innate knowledge of the uses of technology and enjoy an energetic and dynamic learning environment. RIT humanities courses must address that change, he says. A faculty committee looking at the new ways students learn will develop some proposals to accommodate that style, he says.