Eric Welch, Ph.D.

Director of Undergraduate Studies & Adjunct Assistant Professor

Dr. Eric Welch is Director of Undergraduate Studies and is responsible for curricular development and oversight of the undergraduate program in Pharmacy Sciences.

Welch is an archaeologist and historian whose research focuses on political and economic changes in the Near and Middle East during the Bronze and Iron Ages. He is a senior field archaeologist at the excavations of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel, one of the largest known urban centers in antiquity. His current research project examines the Levantine consumption of olive oil as both food and fuel, and as the base ingredient of numerous ancient herbal remedies.