Steven M Ortiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven M Ortiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortiz |
| SIGNATURE | ORTIZ S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Fortifications of Tel Burna: A Reappraisal after Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2010–2022)
Tel Burna’s prominent summit, encompassed by a 70 × 70 m casemate fortification, has attracted attention since at least the nineteenth century CE. An analysis of the archaeological data collected during ongoing excavations at the tell indicates that these fortifications were built in the late tenth or early ninth century BCE. The fortification of this Judahite stronghold, located on the border with Philistia, remained in use for the next 200 year…
Closing Remarks
We are grateful to Ann Killebrew, editor of JEMAHS, for highlighting our project, which underscores the impact the data has on current chronological and historical reconstructions in the southern Levant, and to all of the respondents for providing their perspectives. Below we address key themes and queries raised by them, including the reliability of the Gezer 14C dataset, the proper relationship between 14C dating and pottery, use of archaeomagn…
New Radiocarbon Dating from Late Bronze and Iron Age Gezer and Its Implications
The recent publication of a substantial radiocarbon (14C) dataset and Bayesian chronological model for Tel Gezer between the thirteenth and ninth centuries BCE has raised considerable interest, since this site is among the largest Bronze and Iron Age cities of south-central Israel and historically well attested in Egyptian, biblical, and Assyrian sources. The dates came from short-lived organic materials in the Tandy excavation area on the southe…
Sport Groupies: Perpetuating Patriarchal Power
Many female “groupies” of professional athletes pose a direct threat to the sport marriage, so players’ wives attempt to deal with groupies in numerous public situations. The self-management strategies they rely on include emotion work and boundary work
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage
Drawing from longitudinal qualitative research on the heteronormative sport marriage that primarily featured interviews with women married to male professional athletes, this article focuses on how women were affected by and managed their retired husbands’ physical and mental–emotional health issues. It explores the women’s continued use of self-management strategies they developed during their husband’s career as they offered increasingly challe…
Archaeology and History of Eighth-Century Judah
This book is a Festschrift honoring Oded Borowski. Borowski has a long history of archaeological research in Israel and has produced major works on the world of the Hebrew Bible focusing on agriculture and animals in the Bible. The Festschrift is divided into five parts. Part 1 (“Judah’s Neighbors Near and Far”) places Judah within its wider political and historical framework. The chapters are: K. Lawson Younger Jr., “Assyria’s Expansion West of …
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…
Guarding the Border to Jerusalem: The Iron Age City of Gezer
Tel Gezer has a storied history in the fields of biblical archaeology and the development of American archaeology and Israeli archaeology during the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, the debate between towering figures in the field has overshadowed the importance of this site for research in the southern Levant. This article reports on the first five seasons of excavations by the Tandy Institute for Archaeology. An overview of Iron Age research is …
Breaking Out of Academic Isolation: The Media Odyssey of a Sociologist
Towns in Ancient Israel and the Southern Levant . C. H. J. De Geus
Using Power: An Exploration of Control Work in the Sport Marriage
Drawing from long-term ethnographic research, this article provides valuable insight into the power and control processes that emerge from the work/family issues of professional athletes and their wives. It examines from the wives' perspective how these husbands engage in the interrelated processes of gender work and 'control work' in their marital relationships and how wives respond. The 'spoiled athlete syndrome' is introduced and discussed wit…
Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tel Gezer, Israel: Finds from Raymond-Charles Weill's Excavations in 1914 and 1921 . Aren M. Maier
The Ethnographic Process of Gender Management: Doing the "Right" Masculinity With Wives of Professional Athletes
In this reflexive account of a neglected aspect of cross-gender fieldwork, a male sociologist examines his use of the "right" masculinity in long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. The gender and impression management strategy of "muted masculinity" was applied as a method to avoid the hegemonic masculinity these wives dislike. The ethnographic strategy is identified and examined by evaluating its characteristics and the part it …
Leaving the Private World of Wives of Professional Athletes: A Male Sociologist’s Reflections
The same skills, techniques, and strategies that make fieldwork go well can keep the fieldworker in the field far longer than necessary. Interest in this irony and the exit process was prompted by dilemmas encountered by a male ethnographer in terminating his long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. This reflexive account examines collaborative relationships and compulsive data collection-which proved to be essential in gathering …
Muted Masculinity as an Outsider Strategy: Gender Sharing in Ethnographic Work with Wives of Professional Athletes
Using findings from a study of the world of the wives of professional athletes, this article explores the complex motivations for and displays of trust, rapport, and group acceptance during ethnographic research. Episodic exchanges between a male ethnographer and female collaborators revealed subtle issues of gender and perceived relative worth. This article proposes the outsider strategy of 'muted masculinity' as a means of exploring ethnographi…
How Interviewing Became Therapy for Wives of Professional Athletes: Learning From a Serendipitous Experience
During field research on wives of professional athletes, several of the wives seemed to find that the in-depth interviews had a therapeutic value. Indeed, they themselves often referred to the interview sessions as "therapy sessions," opportunities to unload suppressed feelings, innermost thoughts, and private experiences in ways that led to certain self-transformations. This article examines the nature of collaborative relationships in the inter…
Traveling With the Ball Club: A Code of Conduct for Wives Only
When they accompany their husbands on road trips, the wives of major league baseball players must follow an unwritten code of conduct, a code socially constructed and enforced by men. This code is reflected in the way wives and ballplayers interact on airplanes and buses, and most strikingly, in the requirement that wives stay out of hotel bars where the team is staying. These interactions within a code reflecting female conformity to male domina…
How Interviewing Became Therapy for Wives of Professional Athletes: Learning From a Serendipitous Experience
During field research on wives of professional athletes, several of the wives seemed to find that the in-depth interviews had a therapeutic value. Indeed, they themselves often referred to the interview sessions as "therapy sessions," opportunities to unload suppressed feelings, innermost thoughts, and private experiences in ways that led to certain self-transformations. This article examines the nature of collaborative relationships in the inter…
The Ethnographic Process of Gender Management: Doing the "Right" Masculinity With Wives of Professional Athletes
In this reflexive account of a neglected aspect of cross-gender fieldwork, a male sociologist examines his use of the "right" masculinity in long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. The gender and impression management strategy of "muted masculinity" was applied as a method to avoid the hegemonic masculinity these wives dislike. The ethnographic strategy is identified and examined by evaluating its characteristics and the part it …
Leaving the Private World of Wives of Professional Athletes: A Male Sociologist’s Reflections
The same skills, techniques, and strategies that make fieldwork go well can keep the fieldworker in the field far longer than necessary. Interest in this irony and the exit process was prompted by dilemmas encountered by a male ethnographer in terminating his long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. This reflexive account examines collaborative relationships and compulsive data collection-which proved to be essential in gathering …
Traveling With the Ball Club: A Code of Conduct for Wives Only
When they accompany their husbands on road trips, the wives of major league baseball players must follow an unwritten code of conduct, a code socially constructed and enforced by men. This code is reflected in the way wives and ballplayers interact on airplanes and buses, and most strikingly, in the requirement that wives stay out of hotel bars where the team is staying. These interactions within a code reflecting female conformity to male domina…
Using Power: An Exploration of Control Work in the Sport Marriage
Drawing from long-term ethnographic research, this article provides valuable insight into the power and control processes that emerge from the work/family issues of professional athletes and their wives. It examines from the wives' perspective how these husbands engage in the interrelated processes of gender work and 'control work' in their marital relationships and how wives respond. The 'spoiled athlete syndrome' is introduced and discussed wit…
Muted Masculinity as an Outsider Strategy: Gender Sharing in Ethnographic Work with Wives of Professional Athletes
Using findings from a study of the world of the wives of professional athletes, this article explores the complex motivations for and displays of trust, rapport, and group acceptance during ethnographic research. Episodic exchanges between a male ethnographer and female collaborators revealed subtle issues of gender and perceived relative worth. This article proposes the outsider strategy of 'muted masculinity' as a means of exploring ethnographi…
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage
Drawing from longitudinal qualitative research on the heteronormative sport marriage that primarily featured interviews with women married to male professional athletes, this article focuses on how women were affected by and managed their retired husbands’ physical and mental–emotional health issues. It explores the women’s continued use of self-management strategies they developed during their husband’s career as they offered increasingly challe…
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…
Guarding the Border to Jerusalem: The Iron Age City of Gezer
Tel Gezer has a storied history in the fields of biblical archaeology and the development of American archaeology and Israeli archaeology during the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, the debate between towering figures in the field has overshadowed the importance of this site for research in the southern Levant. This article reports on the first five seasons of excavations by the Tandy Institute for Archaeology. An overview of Iron Age research is …
Traveling With the Ball Club: A Code of Conduct for Wives Only
When they accompany their husbands on road trips, the wives of major league baseball players must follow an unwritten code of conduct, a code socially constructed and enforced by men. This code is reflected in the way wives and ballplayers interact on airplanes and buses, and most strikingly, in the requirement that wives stay out of hotel bars where the team is staying. These interactions within a code reflecting female conformity to male domina…
How Interviewing Became Therapy for Wives of Professional Athletes: Learning From a Serendipitous Experience
During field research on wives of professional athletes, several of the wives seemed to find that the in-depth interviews had a therapeutic value. Indeed, they themselves often referred to the interview sessions as "therapy sessions," opportunities to unload suppressed feelings, innermost thoughts, and private experiences in ways that led to certain self-transformations. This article examines the nature of collaborative relationships in the inter…
Muted Masculinity as an Outsider Strategy: Gender Sharing in Ethnographic Work with Wives of Professional Athletes
Using findings from a study of the world of the wives of professional athletes, this article explores the complex motivations for and displays of trust, rapport, and group acceptance during ethnographic research. Episodic exchanges between a male ethnographer and female collaborators revealed subtle issues of gender and perceived relative worth. This article proposes the outsider strategy of 'muted masculinity' as a means of exploring ethnographi…
Leaving the Private World of Wives of Professional Athletes: A Male Sociologist’s Reflections
The same skills, techniques, and strategies that make fieldwork go well can keep the fieldworker in the field far longer than necessary. Interest in this irony and the exit process was prompted by dilemmas encountered by a male ethnographer in terminating his long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. This reflexive account examines collaborative relationships and compulsive data collection-which proved to be essential in gathering …
Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tel Gezer, Israel: Finds from Raymond-Charles Weill's Excavations in 1914 and 1921 . Aren M. Maier
The Ethnographic Process of Gender Management: Doing the "Right" Masculinity With Wives of Professional Athletes
In this reflexive account of a neglected aspect of cross-gender fieldwork, a male sociologist examines his use of the "right" masculinity in long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. The gender and impression management strategy of "muted masculinity" was applied as a method to avoid the hegemonic masculinity these wives dislike. The ethnographic strategy is identified and examined by evaluating its characteristics and the part it …
Towns in Ancient Israel and the Southern Levant . C. H. J. De Geus
Using Power: An Exploration of Control Work in the Sport Marriage
Drawing from long-term ethnographic research, this article provides valuable insight into the power and control processes that emerge from the work/family issues of professional athletes and their wives. It examines from the wives' perspective how these husbands engage in the interrelated processes of gender work and 'control work' in their marital relationships and how wives respond. The 'spoiled athlete syndrome' is introduced and discussed wit…
Breaking Out of Academic Isolation: The Media Odyssey of a Sociologist
Guarding the Border to Jerusalem: The Iron Age City of Gezer
Tel Gezer has a storied history in the fields of biblical archaeology and the development of American archaeology and Israeli archaeology during the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, the debate between towering figures in the field has overshadowed the importance of this site for research in the southern Levant. This article reports on the first five seasons of excavations by the Tandy Institute for Archaeology. An overview of Iron Age research is …
Archaeology and History of Eighth-Century Judah
This book is a Festschrift honoring Oded Borowski. Borowski has a long history of archaeological research in Israel and has produced major works on the world of the Hebrew Bible focusing on agriculture and animals in the Bible. The Festschrift is divided into five parts. Part 1 (“Judah’s Neighbors Near and Far”) places Judah within its wider political and historical framework. The chapters are: K. Lawson Younger Jr., “Assyria’s Expansion West of …
Tel Burna after a Decade of Work: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Tel Burna is located in the southern Shephelah in modern-day southern Israel. Work at the site has revealed remains dating to the Late Bronze II through the Persian period with peaks of activity during the Late Bronze and Iron Age IIA–B. Occupation reached its apex at the site during the Late Bronze Age, when both the summit and the lower plateau were inhabited. An impressive cultic enclosure, with numerous items related to ritual activities, dat…
Women Caring for Retired Men: A Continuation of Inequality in the Sport Marriage
Drawing from longitudinal qualitative research on the heteronormative sport marriage that primarily featured interviews with women married to male professional athletes, this article focuses on how women were affected by and managed their retired husbands’ physical and mental–emotional health issues. It explores the women’s continued use of self-management strategies they developed during their husband’s career as they offered increasingly challe…
Sport Groupies: Perpetuating Patriarchal Power
Many female “groupies” of professional athletes pose a direct threat to the sport marriage, so players’ wives attempt to deal with groupies in numerous public situations. The self-management strategies they rely on include emotion work and boundary work
The Fortifications of Tel Burna: A Reappraisal after Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2010–2022)
Tel Burna’s prominent summit, encompassed by a 70 × 70 m casemate fortification, has attracted attention since at least the nineteenth century CE. An analysis of the archaeological data collected during ongoing excavations at the tell indicates that these fortifications were built in the late tenth or early ninth century BCE. The fortification of this Judahite stronghold, located on the border with Philistia, remained in use for the next 200 year…
Closing Remarks
We are grateful to Ann Killebrew, editor of JEMAHS, for highlighting our project, which underscores the impact the data has on current chronological and historical reconstructions in the southern Levant, and to all of the respondents for providing their perspectives. Below we address key themes and queries raised by them, including the reliability of the Gezer 14C dataset, the proper relationship between 14C dating and pottery, use of archaeomagn…
New Radiocarbon Dating from Late Bronze and Iron Age Gezer and Its Implications
The recent publication of a substantial radiocarbon (14C) dataset and Bayesian chronological model for Tel Gezer between the thirteenth and ninth centuries BCE has raised considerable interest, since this site is among the largest Bronze and Iron Age cities of south-central Israel and historically well attested in Egyptian, biblical, and Assyrian sources. The dates came from short-lived organic materials in the Tandy excavation area on the southe…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Athletes (7 works) · History (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works)