Philip Betancourt is a specialist in the archaeology of Minoan Crete. He has directed several expeditions to excavate there, including Pseira, a Bronze Age seaport, Chrysokamino, the earliest copper smelting workshop known from Crete, and the Hagios Charalambos Cave, a burial cave in the upland Lasithi Plain. Betancourt is the author of over 20 books and more than a hundred articles on Bronze Age Aegean art and archaeology. In 2002, he received the gold medal from the Archaeological Institute of America for lifetime achievement in archaeological research.

Contact:
email: ppbcourt1@aol.com
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
(215) 204-1605

Elizabeth Bolman is a medievalist, with a specialization in Coptic and Byzantine art. She is the editor and chief author of a book entitled Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea. She is currently directing two projects in the region of Sohag (Upper Egypt): wall painting conservation at the Red Monastery (with ARCE/USAID support), and archaeology at the White Monastery (NEH/Dumbarton Oaks support). Her interests include the intersection of gender and Byzantine art; interactions between artistic production, style, and religion in the eastern Mediterranean; the visual culture of early Byzantine and medieval Christian Egypt; and conservation and heritage management. She is currently finishing a book entitled: The Milk of Salvation? Gender, Audience and the Nursing Virgin Mary in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Contact:
email: elizabeth.bolman@temple
Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Scott de Brestian's interests lie in the art and archaeology of the Roman world, especially Spain and Portugal. His research focuses on the interaction between Roman and native inhabitants throughout the period of imperial rule, and on the transition from the empire to the barbarian successor kingdoms. He is particularly interested in the changing use of space, both urban and rural, and how this reflects alternative social and economic priorities over time. He did his dissertation work in the Basque country, where he used GIS to analyze rural occupation between the first and fifth centuries CE. He has also engaged in fieldwork in Empuries, Spain, at Corinth, and on the Nikopolis project in Epirus.

Contact:
email: brestian@sas

Ann Brownlee's research interests focus on Greek art and archaeology, including Greek vase-painting, particularly Archaic Corinthian and Attic black-figure, Etruscan fakes and forgeries, and history of museums, in particular the University Museum and its building. She is currently conducting a study of the Museum’s collection of Attic black-figure pottery from the Etruscan city of Orvieto, and is also preparing a study of the Archaic Corinthian pottery from the so-called Potters' Quarter at the site of Ancient Corinth. Dr. Brownlee is also the co-director of the Museum’s Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project, and is editing and preparing for publication two volumes in the series.

Contact:
email: abrownle@sas
Office 350, Mediterranean Section
(215) 898-6556

David Brownlee is a historian of modern architecture whose interests embrace a wide range of subjects in Europe and America, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Professor Brownlee has won numerous fellowships, and his work has earned three major publication prizes from the Society of Architectural Historians. He is a recipient of the University of Pennsylvania's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. After chairing the committees that proposed the reshaping of the University's undergraduate residences in 1997, he directed the implementation of a comprehensive system of College Houses and served as Director of the Office of College Houses and Academic Services for four years.

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email: dbrownle@sas
Office 106, Jaffe Building
(215) 898-3834

Clark Erickson is interested in how archaeology can provide a long-term perspective on environmental change, biodiversity, and sustainable management to inform historical ecology. Dr. Erickson's Andean and Amazonian research focuses on the contribution of archaeology to understanding the complex human history of the environment and cultural activities that have shaped the Earth. Dr. Erickson is involved in collaborative research with the Robots Lab of the Department of Computer and Information Science and the Digital Media Design Program, developing an inexpensive and accurate technique to record pre-Columbian architecture using 3D digital mapping for archaeologists, art historians, architects and cultural resource managers.

Contact:
email: cerickso@sas
Office 435, University Museum
(215) 898-2282

Cam Grey works on Roman social and economic history, particularly the history of non-elite and marginal populations such as beggars, criminals, and foreigners. His doctoral work focused on how rural communities functioned in Late Antiquity, and what happened when consensus broke down. He is also interested in the use of comparative methodologies, theoretical perspectives and model-building in contemporary ancient history writing. His teaching covers topics in Roman social, economic, agrarian, and legal history, from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity; and Greek and Roman historiography, both ancient and modern.

Lothar Haselberger's research interests are focused on the exploration of Greco-Roman Architecture in its practical and theoretical implications, from millimeter-refinements of ancient stone-carving to "macroscopic" aspects of urbanism, from the documentation of ancient construction drawings (focusing on the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey, and the Pantheon in Rome) to analyzing theories of design, visibility, and city building in the writings of Philo of Byzantium, Vitruvius, and others. Currently, he is specially interested in the modes and media in the ancient transmission of design, the changes and ruptures in that tradition, and the literal application of Vitruvian "design recipes" now tangible in major temples (Didyma temple; Augustus' Temple of Mars Ultor; Hadrian's Pantheon) and cities (Pergamon; Alexandria).

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email: haselber@sas
Office 312, Jaffe Building
(215) 898-2197

Sebastian Heath is a specialist in Roman pottery, numismatics and the application of digital technologies to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world. He has participated in excavation and survey in Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Current research includes the publication of Roman pottery from the Lower City at Troy. He is co-editor with Billur Tekkök of the digital publication Greek, Roman and Byzantine Pottery at Ilion and also co-edits The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: Internet Edition. Dr. Heath currently serves as an Academic Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America.

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email: sebastian.heath@gmail

Richard Hodges is the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A Classical and early Medieval archaeologist specializing in Western Europe, Dr. Hodges has been Director of both the British School in Rome and the Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture in London. Since 1998, he has worked extensively on archaeological and cultural heritage projects in Albania, including the creation of a large cultural heritage institute in Tirana and a new archaeological museum in Butrint. Named an Officer of the British Empire in 1995, Prof. Hodges is the author of 10 books on such subjects as archaeology and the beginnings of English society, primitive and peasant markets, and towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne.

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email: rhodges@sas

Renata Holod has done archaeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Central Asia and Turkey, and completed an archaeological/ethno-historical survey on the island of Jerba, Tunisia. Professor Holod has served as Convenor, Steering Committee Member, and Master Jury Chair of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. She also served as consultant to Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), Arthur Ericson Architects, and Venturi Scott-Brown Architects. In 2004, the Islamic Environmental Research Centre honored her with an Award for outstanding work in Islamic Architectural Studies.

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email: rholod@sas
Office 301, Jaffe Building
(215) 898-8714

Ann Kuttner's research and teaching interests lie in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique socio-political history, visual language, and material culture. She also advises projects in the Renaissance rapprochement with the Roman legacy and ancient North India's absorption of Greco-Roman paradigms. Long interested in luxury arts as domestic display, and public sculptural decoration and architectural programming, she has in the last years expanded research to include landscape architecture, painting, the character of the Roman domus and villa, and relations between textual production and visual language.

Contact:
email: akuttner@sas
Office 209, Jaffe Building
(215) 898-0897

Robert Maxwell teaches the art of the Middle Ages, specializing in the sculpture, architecture, and manuscripts of the Romanesque and Early Gothic periods, while also pursuing an interest in medieval art's historiography. Professor Maxwell has also collaborated with several Philadelphia museums, serving as consulting curator to an exhibition of incunabula for the Rosenbach Museum & Library, and as a contributor to the installation of Romanesque sculpture and Gothic stained glass for the Glencairn Museum.

Contact:
email: maxwellr@sas
Office 204, Jaffe Building
(215) 898-0124

Jeremy McInerney has excavated in Israel, at Corinth, and on Crete. He serves on the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. Professor McInerney's research interests include topography, epigraphy and historiography. He is the author of The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Pholis, and has published articles in a variety of academic journals including Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, the American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, and California Studies in Classical Antiquity. In 1997, he was an invited participant at a colloquium on ethnicity in the ancient world, hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington.

Contact:
email: jmcinern@sas
Office 264, Logan Hall
(215) 898-7425

Sheila Murnaghan is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (Princeton 1987) and the co-editor of Women and Slaves in Greco Roman Culture: Differential Equations (Routledge 2000). She works in the areas of Greek epic, tragedy, and historiography; gender in classical culture; and the classical tradition. Her current projects concern the tragic chorus, Herodotus, and twentieth century women writers and the classics.

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email: smurnagh@sas
Office 261, Logan Hall
(215) 898-7425

Robert Ousterhout is a recognized specialist in Byzantine architecture, his research focuses on the documentation and interpretation of the vanishing architectural heritage of the eastern Mediterranean.  His current fieldwork concentrates on Byzantine architecture, monumental art, and urbanism in Constantinople and Cappadocia. He is the author of numerous books, including The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul, Dumbarton Oaks Studies 25 (Washington, D.C., 1987),  Master Builders of Byzantium (Princeton, 1999), The Art of the Kariye Camii (London-Istanbul, 2002), and A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies, Washington, DC, 2005). He also recently edited Encounters with Islam, a thematic issue of Gesta, 43/2 (2004), with D.F. Ruggles; and the exhibition catalogue Restoring Byzantium: The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute  Restoration (Columbia University, New York, 2004), with Holger Klein.

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Holly Pittman has excavated in Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and has had primary publication responsibilities of the art and especially the glyptic art from the sites of Malyan in the Fars province of Iran; Uruk period Tell Brak; and Uruk period Hacienbi Tepe. She co-curated the traveling exhibition of the "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur" from the University Museum. Her current research interests revolve around the excavations of the sites of Konar Sandal South and North in the region of Jiroft in south-central Iran. Dr. Pittman has participated in two seasons of excavation of the two mounds and the exploration and survey of the region.

Contact:
email: hpittman@sas
Office 203, Jaffe Building
(215) 898-3251

David Romano's scholarly interests are divided between ancient city and landscape planning, computerized applications in archaeology, and ancient athletics. He has been Director of the Corinth Computer Project, a computerized study of the city and landscape of Roman Corinth since 1988 and is currently working on its final publication. During the summer of 2004 Dr. Romano began a new excavation and survey project at the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Arcadia, Greece. He also continues to work on his project Mapping Augustan Rome, published in 2002 by the Journal of Roman Archaeology. The current effort is towards converting the book and paper maps into a digital format.

Contact:
email: dromano@sas
homepage: corinth.sas.upenn.edu/dgr
Office 352, Mediterranean Section
(215) 898-4437

Philip Sapirstein earned his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Cornell University, and specializes in Greek architecture and archaeological illustration. He has investigated architectural terracottas and ceramic technology of the Archaic period in Greece, Anatolia, and Etruria. His broader research interests include replication experiments, ethnoarchaeology, and computer visualization aimed at understanding the design of Greek monuments. Currently he is studying for publication the architecture from the Hera sanctuary at Mon Repos, Corfu, and architectural terracottas from several Archaic buildings at Didyma. With a background in studio art and computer design, Sapirstein has worked many seasons for the Corinth Architecture Project and has excavated at Corinth and Sardis.

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Since 1988, Brian Rose has been Head of Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy, and is English language editor of Studia Troica, the annual journal of the Troy excavations. His new survey project in the Granicus River Valley focuses on recording and mapping the Graeco-Persian tombs that dominate the area. His research has also concentrated on the political and artistic relationship between Rome and the provinces. He is Vice President of the American Research Institute in Turkey, President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome.

Contact:
email: roseb@sas
Office 351, Mediterranean Section
(215) 898-4071

For the past two decades, Dr. Tartaron has participated in regional-scale studies of the Greek past, in which his principal focus has been on the Bronze Age. Among these have been major regional landscape archaeology projects: the Berbati-Limnes Archaeological Survey, the Nikopolis Project, and the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS). His new project, co-directed with Daniel Pullen of the Florida State University, is entitled the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Project (SHARP). This research centers on the recently discovered Mycenaean harbor town at Kalamianos, south of Corinth. Dr. Tartaron is also working on two long-term petrographic studies of Middle Bronze Age pottery from the central Greek sites of Orchomenos and Kirrha, in collaboration with the Fitch Laboratory at the British School of Archaeology at Athens.

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email: tartaron@sas

Dr. Turfa has participated in excavations in the U.S., United Kingdom, Italy and Greece, including Corinth and Etruscan Poggio Civitate (Murlo), and in research projects at the Manchester Museum, Liverpool Museum and British Museum. She was Curatorial Consultant for the reinstallation of the Kyle M. Phillips Etruscan Gallery of the Penn Museum. She has taught at universities in the U.S. and United Kingdom, lecturing on the Etruscans, Phoenicians and Carthaginians, and on trade and architecture in the ancient Mediterranean. Her published research includes Etruscan religion, medicine, technology, seafaring and trade, art and architecture, and she is completing books on Etruscan-Punic Relations, and the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar. She is a Foreign Member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, and a Research Associate at the Penn Museum.

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email: jturfa@sas

Steve Tinney is focussing his efforts on bringing Sumerian online. The Penn Sumerian Dictionary will be much more than a list of Sumerian words and their English meanings. It will also be accessible through an English-language interface that will include grouping of words conceptually and by object-type. Because the word-definitions will link to examples of usage in the online collections of Sumerian texts, the Sumerian Dictionary will be a gateway to early Mesopotamian culture. The team plans to augment the Dictionary with essays on concepts, material culture and ethnographic matters to enhance its cultural function.

Contact:
email: stinney@sas
Office 231, Babylonian Section
(215) 898-7467

Bernard Wailes interests include the archaeology of later prehistoric and early historic Europe, especially Ireland; cultural evolution and chiefdom societies; interrelationship of textual and archaeological evidence; farming systemsand Old World archaeology in general.

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email: bwailes@sas
Office 339, University Museum
(215) 898-6984

Joe Wegner focuses his research on Middle Kingdom Egypt and is currently conducting archaeological excavations at South Abydos, Egypt. In 2002-2003 he conducted two seasons of fieldwork at Abydos, and completed magnetic resonance mapping in and around the current excavation site of the mortuary complex and town of Senwosret III, which he has been excavating since 1994. The purpose of this work was to provide evidence for as-yet-unknown buildings and other structures in the area of the Senwosret III complex. During March-April 2003, Dr. Wegner conducted excavations of a mastaba-tomb, with a massive sarcophagus and burial chamber, which may be a royal tomb belonging to a king of the 13th Dynasty.

Contact:
email: jwegner@sas
Office 519, University Museum
(215) 898-4039

Donald White excavated in eastern Libya from 1964 through 1981, first the port city of Apollonia, then Cyrene's Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone. During the 1980's he excavated the Late Bronze Age island site of Bates's Island on Egypt's NW coast. From the early 1990's on he oversaw as Chief Curator the renovations of the Greek, Roman and Etruscan galleries of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As author and co-author of six final excavation monographs and over 70 articles, he is an authority on the archaeology of Egypt's NW coast and the Libyan Greek Pentapolis.

Contact:
email: donwhite@sas
Mediterranean Section
(215) 898-4087

Since 1989, Richard Zettler has been the director of Penn's excavations at the site of Tell es-Sweyhat, located on the east bank of the Euphrates in northern Syria. In addition to his work on Tell es-Sweyhat, he continues his long-standing interest in the meshing of textual sources and material culture to build more holistic histories of ancient Mesopotamia. Dr. Zettler co-curated the Museum's traveling exhibit "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur" and is also involved in other major Museum projects including efforts to make more of the collections from excavations at Ur available to other institutions and the restoration of the Urnamma Stele.

Contact:
email: rzettler@sas
Office 523, University Museum
(215) 898-7461