Associate Professor of Classical Studies; Executive Director of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum; Associate Curator, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section; Faculty Advisor, Post-baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies
Education:
- PhD, Archaeology, Boston University, 1996
- Colburn Fellow, American School of Classical Studies
at Athens, 1992–1993 - Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, 1981
Research and teaching interests:
- Greek Bronze Age archaeology
- Classical Archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Archaeometry
Current excavation:
Selected publications:
- Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- "The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP): Investigations at Mycenaean Kalamianos, 2007–2009," Hesperia 80 (2011): 559–634
- Bronze Age Landscape and Society in Southern Epirus, Greece (Archaeopress, 2004).
- "Aegean Prehistory as World Archaeology: Recent Trends in the Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece,"Journal of Archaeological Research 16 (2008): 83–161
Work in progress:
Publication of the results of the first phase of SHARP (2007–2009)
Recent courses:
- Undergraduate
- Introduction to Mediterranean Archaeology
- Ages of Homer
- Great Discoveries in Archaeology
- Seafaring in the Ancient Greek World
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Graduate
- Ancient Greek Colonies
- Landscape Archaeology
- Material and Methods in Mediterranean Archaeology
- Mycenae
- Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics
