DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
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THOMAS F. TARTARON
Curriculum Vitae
Present appointments
• Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania; July 2012.
• Chair, Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Program, University of
Pennsylvania; July 2012.
• Consulting Scholar, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania;
Mediterranean Section; July 2007.
• Senior Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology; August 2013.
Research interests
• Greek Bronze Age and Classical archaeology
• Coastal archaeology
• Regional-scale landscape archaeology and network approaches
• Ethnoarchaeology
• Ceramic petrography (thin-section pottery fabric analysis) and geoarchaeology
• Archaeological method and theory
• Ancient Greek history and literature, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the historians
Education
1996 Ph.D., Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dissertation Title: Bronze Age Settlement and Subsistence in Southwestern Epirus, Greece.
1992–1993 American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Colburn Fellow, Fulbright Fellow.
1981 B.A., International Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Previous professional experience
2006–2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
2000–2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1998–2000 Lecturer, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1996–1998 Postdoctoral Associate, CMRAE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1993−1996 Laboratory Supervisor and Teaching Assistant, CMRAE, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
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Archaeological field experience
2014–present Principal Investigator, Kerala Maritime Communities Project, India.
2014–present Principal Investigator, Molyvoti Oral Histories Project, Greece.
2013–present Director of Field Survey, Molyvoti, Thrace Archaeological Project, Greece.
2007–present Co-director, Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP), Greece.
Web site: http://www.saronicharbors.org/
2004–2006 Field Supervisor, Kenchreai Cemetery Project, Greece.
2000–2006 Director, Yale University-Henry Whitfield State Museum Excavations, Guilford,
CT. Recognized with Connecticut Governor's Award for Excellence in Culture and
Tourism, 2007.
1998–2003 Field Director, Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey, Greece.
1996–present Principal Investigator, petrographic research, Greece.
1991−1996 Survey Coordinator and Teaching Assistant, Nikopolis Project, Greece.
1990
Square Supervisor, Tell Abu Duwari, Iraq.
1989 & 1991 Crew Member, Paleolithic Survey, Larisa, Greece.
1989
Crew Member, Kitrini Limni Archaeological Project, Greece.
1988–1989 Crew Member, Berbati-Limnes Archaeological Survey, Greece.
1987–1992 Crew Member, Office of Public Archaeology, Boston University.
External grants received
2010
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Continuing Projects Grant, SHARP, with Daniel
Pullen (co-PI). $ 55,000.
2010
Arete Foundation, grant for support of SHARP. $ 25,000.
2009
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Continuing Projects Grant, SHARP, with Daniel
Pullen (co-PI). $ 60,000.
2009
Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Salary Replacement for research leave, 2009–
2010. $ 30,000.
2008–2010 National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program Research Grant, with Daniel
Pullen (co-PI). $ 173,000.
2008
Loeb Classical Library Research Award, for SHARP research, with Daniel Pullen
(co-PI). $ 30,000.
2008
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Continuing Projects Grant, SHARP, with Daniel
Pullen (co-PI). $ 60,000.
2007
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, New Projects Grant, SHARP, with Daniel Pullen
(co-PI). $ 60,000.
2007
Loeb Classical Library Research Award, for SHARP research, with Daniel Pullen
(co-PI). $ 30,000.
2002
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Research Grant. “Later Prehistory of the Eastern
Korinthia,” Continuing Projects Grant, with Daniel Pullen (PI). $ 10,000.
2000
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Research Grant. “Later Prehistory of the Eastern
Korinthia,” Continuing Projects Grant, with Timothy Gregory (PI) and Daniel
Pullen. $ 20,000.
1996
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Research Grant. “Petrographic Analysis of
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1995
1992–1993
1992–1993
Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Orchomenos, Greece.” $ 5,580.
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Research Grant. “Petrographic Analysis of
Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Kirrha, Greece.” $ 5,500.
Archaeological Institute of America, Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship for
study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. $ 5,500.
Fulbright-Hays Grant for study and travel at the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens. Approximately $ 2,500.
Internal grants received
2015
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, travel grant for
presentation of two papers at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 2015. $1,000.
2013–2014 University of Pennsylvania, Weiler Research Grant to support a semester of leave
for tenured faculty, plus $5,000 research funding.
2010–2011 University of Pennsylvania, University Research Foundation. "Documenting a
3,300-Year-Old Harbor Town in Greece," grant for participation of students in
SHARP. $ 17,228.
2010
University of Pennsylvania Museum (private donor), grant for setup of a
laboratory for ceramic petrography. Approximately $ 160,000.
2007
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences Instructional Technology
Grant, for Laboratory for the Study of Ancient Technology, with Harold L. Dibble
(co-PI). $ 6,500.
2007
University of Pennsylvania, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Mentoring
Program, mentoring freshman student Ava Childers at SHARP. $ 7,500.
2003
Junior Faculty Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Yale University. Funding for
research leave, 2003–2004.
2002
Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Grant, Yale University. “Investigating Bronze Age
Landscapes in the Eastern Korinthia, Greece.” $ 6,000.
2001
Instructional Innovation Grant, Yale University. “Geographic Information Systems
for Investigating Ancient Human Landscapes.” $ 5,149.
2001
Yale Center for International and Area Studies Grant. “Coevolution of
Environment and Culture in the 21st Century: Modern Development and the
Role of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in the Eastern Korinthia, Greece.”
$ 4,000.
2001
A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University. “Investigating
Ancient Human Landscapes in the Korinthia, Southern Greece.” $ 2,500.
2000
Office of the Provost, Yale University. Laboratory setup grant, petrographic
laboratory. $ 45,000.
1992
Boston University Humanities Foundation, Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Prize
Scholarship for study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
$ 1,500.
Publications: single-author monographs
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2013. Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World. Cambridge University
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Press, 341 pages.
• Awarded the James R. Wiseman Book Award by the Archaeological Institute of America,
January 2016
• Reviewed by Jason W. Earle, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 2014.08.34; Katherine A.
Larsen, Comparative Studies in Society and History Notes 56 (2014): 1064–1065; Ina Berg,
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 24 (2014): 544–546; Damian Robinson, International
Journal of Nautical Archaeology 44 (2014): 227–228; Chiara Maria Mauro, Gérion 32 (2014):
311–313; Jill Hilditch, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 10 (2015): 149–150.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2004. Bronze Age Landscape and Society in Southern Epirus, Greece. BAR
International Series 1290. Oxford: Archaeopress, 240 pages. Reviewed by William G.
Cavanagh, Antiquity 80 (2006): 470–472.
Publications: edited volume
Pullen, Daniel J., and Thomas F. Tartaron, eds., in preparation. The Saronic Harbors
Archaeological Research Project: Engaging Land and Sea in the Saronic Gulf, Greece. 20
authors, 350 pages projected (Tartaron 155 pages joint authorship). Planned submission to
Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press.
Publications: peer-reviewed articles and chapters
Tartaron, Thomas F., submitted. “Recovering the Maritime Coastal Communities of
Mycenaean Greece,” proceedings of the conference “Archaeology of the Sea,” Brussels,
March 2014.
Tartaron, Thomas F., submitted. “Geography Matters: Defining Maritime Small Worlds in
the Aegean Bronze Age,” proceedings of the workshop “Networks of Maritime Connectivity
in the Ancient Mediterranean: Structure, Continuity, and Change over the Longue Durée,”
Toronto, November 2013.
Tartaron, Thomas F., submitted. “Fragments of a Maritime Small World: Glykys Limin and TransIonian Trade in the Mycenaean Period,” proceedings of the Scientific Meeting in Honour of
Angelika Douzougli and Konstantinos Zachos, Ioannina, November 2012.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2015. "Late Bronze Age Architecture and Regional Dynamics at
Korphos in the Corinthia," in A.-L. Schallin and I. Tournavitou, eds., Mycenaeans Up to Date:
The Archaeology of the Northeastern Peloponnese - Current Concepts and New Directions.
Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen 4°, 56, Stockholm, 391–401.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2015. “The Settlement at Kalamianos: Bronze Age Small Worlds and the
Saronic Coast of the Southeastern Corinthia,” in E. R. Gebhart and T. E. Gregory, eds., Bridge
of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Hesperia
Supplement 48. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 25–38.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2014. “Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Greek World: Culture Contact
Issues and Theories,” in C. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York:
Springer, 1804–1821.
Leidwanger, J., C. Knappett, P. Arnaud, P. Arthur, E. Blake, C. Broodbank, T. Brughmans, T.
Evans, S. Graham, E. S. Greene, B. Kowalzig, B. Mills, R. Rivers, T. F. Tartaron, and R. Van de
Noort, 2014. “A Manifesto for the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Maritime Networks,”
Antiquity 342, December 2014 (Project Gallery).
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Tartaron, Thomas F., Daniel J. Pullen, Richard K. Dunn, Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Amy Dill,
and Joseph I. Boyce, 2011. “The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP):
Investigations at Mycenaean Kalamianos, 2007–2009,” Hesperia 80(4): 559-634.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2010. “Between and Beyond: Political Economy in Non-palatial
Mycenaean Worlds,” in D.J. Pullen, ed. Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 161–183.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2008. “Aegean Prehistory as World Archaeology: Recent Trends in the
Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece,” Journal of Archaeological Research 16: 83–161.
Pullen, Daniel J., and Thomas F. Tartaron, 2007. “Where’s the Palace? The Lack of State
Formation in the Late Bronze Age Corinthia,” in M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson, eds.,
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Edition. Los Angeles: Cotsen
Institute of Archaeology, 146–158.
Tartaron, Thomas F., Timothy E. Gregory, Daniel J. Pullen, Jay S. Noller, Richard M. Rothaus,
Joseph L. Rife, Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Robert Schon, William R. Caraher, David K.
Pettegrew, and Dimitri Nakassis, 2006. “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey:
Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape,” Hesperia 75: 453–523.
Tartaron, Thomas F., Daniel J. Pullen, and Jay S. Noller, 2006. “Rillenkarren at Vayia:
Geomorphology and a New Class of Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement in Southern
Greece,” Antiquity 80: 145–160.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2003. “Archaeological Survey: Sampling Strategies and Field Methods,” in
J.R. Wiseman and K. L. Zachos, eds., Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece I.
Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 23–45.
Whitbread, Ian, Evangelia Kiriatzi, and Thomas Tartaron, 2002. “Middle Bronze Age Ceramic
Production in Central and Southern Mainland Greece: The Design of a Regional Petrographic
Study,” in V. Kilikoglou, A. Hein, and Y. Maniatis, eds., Modern Trends in Scientific Studies on
Ancient Ceramics. BAR International Series 1011, Oxford, 121–128.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2001. “Glykys Limin: A Mycenaean Port of Trade in Southern Epirus?” in
D.W. Tandy, ed., Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class, and Political Economy. Montréal:
Black Rose Books, 1–40.
Publications: in preparation for peer review
Dao, Peter, Joseph I. Boyce, Despoina Koutsoumba, Daniel J. Pullen, Thomas F. Tartaron, and
Richard M. Rothaus, in preparation. “Reconstruction of Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Coastal
Environments and Anchorage Sites at Kalamianos (Korphos, Greece),” to be submitted to
Journal of Archaeological Science.
Dao, Peter, Joseph I. Boyce, Despoina Koutsoumba, Thomas F. Tartaron, and Daniel J. Pullen,
in preparation. “Magnetic Gradiometer Survey of a Submerged Bronze Age (Mycenaean)
Harbour and Anchorage Sites at Kalamianos, Korphos, Greece,” to be submitted to Journal
of Archaeological Science.
Publications: non-refereed articles and chapters
Arrington, Nathan T., Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, and Thomas F. Tartaron,
submitted. "Molyvoti, Thrace Archaeological Project: 'Ancient Stryme' 2015 Preliminary
Report," Archaiologikon Deltion.
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Arrington, Nathan T., Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, and Thomas F. Tartaron, in press.
“Αρχαία Στρύμη 2014,” Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη.
Arrington, Nathan T., Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, and Thomas F. Tartaron,
submitted. "Molyvoti, Thrace Archaeological Project: 'Ancient Stryme' 2014 Preliminary
Report," Archaiologikon Deltion.
Clinton, Miriam G., Sarah C. Murray, and Thomas F. Tartaron, 2014. “GIS in Action: Analyzing an
Early Bronze Age Coastal Landscape on the Saronic Gulf,” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F.
Rougemont, eds., Physis: Natural Environment and Human Interaction in the Prehistoric
Aegean. Aegaeum: 14th International Aegean Conference. Leuven: Peeters, 103–109.
Tartaron, Thomas F., and Daniel J. Pullen, 2014. “The Saronic Harbors Archaeological
Research Project (SHARP): Two Seasons at Mycenaean Kalamianos,” in K. Kissas and W.-D.
Niemeier, eds., The Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnese: Topography and History from
Prehistory until the End of Antiquity. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen, 231–238.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2014. “Local Maritime Connectivity in the Mycenaean World,” Bulletin of
the Institute of Classical Studies 57(1): 133–134 (abstract).
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2005. “Glykys Limin and the Discontinuous Mycenaean Periphery,” in R.
Laffineur and E. Greco, eds.., EMPORIA: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean.
Aegaeum 25. Liège: Université de Liège, 153–160.
Tartaron, Thomas F., Richard M. Rothaus, and Daniel J. Pullen, 2003. “Searching for Prehistoric
Aegean Harbors with GIS, Geomorphology, and Archaeology,” Athena Review 3(4): 27–36.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2003. “The Characterization of Inorganic Materials in Aegean Prehistory,”
in K.P. Foster and R. Laffineur, eds., METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age. Aegaeum
25. Liège: Université de Liège, 59–63.
Rothaus, Richard, Eduard Reinhardt, Thomas Tartaron, and Jay Noller, 2003. “A
Geoarchaeological Approach for Detecting Prehistoric Aegean Harbors,” in K.P. Foster and
R. Laffineur, eds., METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age. Aegaeum 25. Liège:
Université de Liège, 37–47.
Tartaron, Thomas F., Curtis Runnels, and Evangelia Karimali, 1999. “Prolegomena to the Study
of Bronze Age Flaked Stone in Southern Epirus,” in P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R.
Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier, eds., MELETEMATA: Studies Presented to Malcolm H.
Wiener. Aegaeum 20, Liège, 819–825.
Tartaron, Thomas F., and Konstantinos Zachos, 1999. “The Mycenaeans and Epirus,” in F.
Dakoronia, ed., I Periphereia tou Mykinaikou Kosmou. Lamia: Hellenic Ministry of Culture,
57–76.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 1995. “Landscape Archaeology and Its Potential Application in Albania,”
Arkeologjia 3: 25–32.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 1993. “Notes from a Year of Research in Greece,” Context 11 (1–2): 14–17.
Baugh, Timothy G., Ricardo J. Elia, and Thomas F. Tartaron, 1992. Geophysical Remote Sensing
Survey at Fairsted, the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline,
Massachusetts. Office of Public Archaeology Report of Investigations No. 116. Boston:
Boston University.
Tartaron, Thomas, and Curtis Runnels, 1992. “Palaeolithic Research at Kokkinopilos in Epirus,”
Old World Archaeology Newsletter 15 (3): 26–30.
Tartaron, Thomas F., and Curtis Runnels, 1991–1992. “The Discovery of a Palaeolithic Handaxe
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at Kokkinopilos in Epirus,” Context 9 (3–4): 1, 4–7.
Cuozzo, John, Charles Pennington, and Thomas Tartaron, 1990–1991. “Archaeology in the Iraqi
Desert: The Third Season at Tell Abu Duwari,” Context 9 (1–2): 1–5.
Book reviews
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2015. Review of C. Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea. In
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74: 373–378.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2002. Review of P. Halstead and C. Frederick, eds., Landscape and Land
Use in Postglacial Greece. In American Antiquity 67 (2): 389–390.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 2001. Review of C. Broodbank, An Island Archaeology of the Early
Cyclades. In Journal of Field Archaeology 28: 225–229.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 1999. Review of I. Freestone and D. Gaimster, eds., Pottery in the Making:
Ceramic Traditions. In Geoarchaeology 14(1): 87–89.
Tartaron, Thomas F., 1999. Review of W. Cavanagh et al., Continuity and Change in a Greek
Rural Landscape. The Laconia Survey, Volume II: Archaeological Data. In American Journal of
Archaeology 103: 353–354.
Papers presented at professional meetings
“The Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project, 2015,” delivered at the Archaeological Institute
of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2016 (with Nathan Arrington, principal
author).
“The Ports of Mycenae: Kalamianos and Korakou in the LBA Mediterranean,” delivered at the
conference “Oxyderkein at Korakou: A Centennial Celebration of C. W. Blegen’s 1915–1916
Excavations,” Athens, September 2015 (with Daniel Pullen, principal author).
“Locating the Maritime Coastal Communities of Mycenaean Greece: An Ethnoarchaeological
Contribution,” delivered at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, New
Orleans, January 2015.
“Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project 2014,” delivered at the Archaeological Institute of
America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2015 (with Nathan Arrington, principal
author).
“Recovering the Maritime Coastal Communities of Mycenaean Greece,” invited paper
delivered at the conference “Archaeology of the Sea,” Brussels, March 2014.
“Geography Matters: Defining Maritime Small Worlds in the Aegean Bronze Age,” invited paper
delivered at the workshop “Networks of Maritime Connectivity in the Ancient
Mediterranean: Structure, Continuity, and Change over the Longue Durée,” Toronto,
November 2013.
“A Petrographic Study of Late Helladic (LH) Pottery from the Corinthia, Greece,” poster
displayed at the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, Athens, May
2013 (with Debra A. Trusty, principal author).
“GIS in Action: Analyzing an Early Bronze Age Coastal Landscape on the Saronic Gulf,” delivered
at the international conference “Physis: Natural Environment and Human Interaction in the
Prehistoric Aegean,” Paris, December 2012 (with Miriam G. Clinton and Sarah C. Murray).
“Reconstruction of Late Bronze Age Coastal Environments and Anchorage Sites at Kalamianos
(Korphos, Greece),” poster displayed at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of
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Canada, Ottawa, May 2011 (with P. Dao [principal author], J.I. Boyce, D. Koutsoumba, D.J.
Pullen, and R.M. Rothaus).
“Late Bronze Age Architecture and Regional Dynamics at Korphos in the Corinthia,” delivered
at the international conference, “Mycenaeans Up to Date: The Archaeology of the NE
Peloponnese – Current Concepts and New Directions,” Athens, November 2010.
"Scalar Variability in Late Bronze Age Aegean Maritime Worlds," delivered at the Society for
American Archaeology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 2010.
"Enlarging Small Worlds: The Saronic Gulf and Mycenaean State Expansion," delivered at the
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 2010 (with D.J. Pullen).
“To ‘Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project’: Dyo Periodi ston Mykenaiko Kalamiano,”
delivered at conference “The Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnesus: Topography and
History from Prehistory until the End of Antiquity,” Loutraki, Greece, March 2009 (in Greek,
with D.J. Pullen).
Invited session respondent, “Mediterranean and Eurasian Landscape Archaeology,” Society for
American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2009.
“The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project: The Bronze Age Worlds of
Kalamianos,” delivered at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting,
Anaheim, January 2010 (with D.J. Pullen).
"The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP): Two Seasons at Mycenaean
Kalamianos," delivered at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, January 2009 (with D.J. Pullen).
“Ancient Corinthians and Epirotes: James Wiseman’s Legacy in the Archaeology of Regions,”
Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Gold Medal Session, Chicago,
January 2008.
“The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP): Report on the First Season,
2007” (with D.J. Pullen), Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Chicago,
January 2008.
“Local Pottery Production and Interregional Exchange in Middle Helladic Boeotia: The Evidence
from Orchomenos” (Poster, with M.-C. Boileau and K. Sarri), 9th European Meeting on
Ancient Ceramics (EMAC), Budapest, October 2007.
“Bronze Age Small Worlds and the Saronic Coast of the Southeastern Corinthia,” in conference
“Half a Century on the Isthmus,” Athens, June 2007.
“Between and Beyond: Political Economies in Non-palatial Mycenaean Worlds,” Langford
Family Conference, “Political Economies in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Florida State
University, February 2007.
“Political Organization of Mycenaean States,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual
Meeting, San Diego, January 2007.
Session Chair, “Archaeological Surface and Geophysical Survey,” Archaeological Institute of
America Annual Meeting, Montréal, January 2006.
Session Chair, “Excavation and Survey in the Aegean,” Archaeological Institute of America
Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2005.
“Glykys Limin and Mycenaean Colonization in Coastal Epiros,” at the conference Emporia:
Aegeans in Central and Eastern Mediterranean, Athens, Greece, April 2004.
“Vayia: A Fortified Early Bronze Age Harbor Site” (with D.J. Pullen, J.S. Noller, and R. Rothaus),
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Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2004.
Paper and Workshop Participant, “Another Island Survey? Linking the Past, Present, and Future
of Archaeological Research on Aegina,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, January 2004.
“A Geoarchaeological Approach for Detecting Prehistoric Aegean Harbors” (with R. Rothaus, E.
Reinhardt, and J.S. Noller), at the conference METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age,
Yale University, April 2002.
“The Characterization of Inorganic Materials in Aegean Prehistory,” at the conference
METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Yale University, April 2002.
Session Chair, “Ancient Landscapes,” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, January 2002.
“Patterns in the Later Prehistory of the Eastern Korinthia” (with D.J. Pullen, R. Rothaus, D.
Nakassis, and A. Dill), Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia,
January 2002.
Roundtable Moderator, “Getting a Job: Career Strategies for Archaeology Graduate Students,”
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2000–2002.
“The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Progress Report 1997–2000” (with T.E. Gregory
and D.J. Pullen), Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, January
2001.
“Glykys Limin: A Mycenaean Port of Trade in Epirus,” Archaeological Institute of America
Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 1997.
“Prehistoric Settlement in Southern Epirus: Preliminary Results from Survey,” Archaeological
Institute of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 1993.
Endowed lectures
Archaeological Institute of America National Lecture Series 2010–2011, Dorinda J. Oliver
Lecturer: "Korphos-Kalamianos: Investigations at a Recently Discovered Mycenaean Harbor
Town in the Corinthia, Greece, 2007–2010," delivered in Salem, OR; Portland, OR;
Winnipeg, MB, Canada; and Albany, NY, March–April 2011.
Archaeological Institute of America National Lecture Series 2008–2009, William A. McDonald
Lecturer: “Mycenaean Coastal Worlds,” Bloomington, IN, November 2008.
Archaeological Institute of America National Lecture Series 2008–2009, Oscar Broneer Lecturer:
“Korphos-Kalamianos: Investigations at a Newly Discovered Mycenaean Harbor Town in the
Corinthia, Greece,” Chapel Hill, NC, October 2008.
Archaeological Institute of America National Lecture Series 2008–2009, Oscar Broneer Lecturer:
“Mycenaean Coastal Worlds,” Huntsville, AL, October 2008.
Invited lectures and seminars
Invited lecture, “Archaeology, Anthropology, Homer, and Hesiod: Recovering Lost Maritime
Worlds of Mycenaean Greece,” delivered to the Baltimore chapter of the Archaeological
Institute of America, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 9, 2015.
Invited lecture, “Recovering Maritime Small Worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age,” and seminar,
“Locating the Maritime Coastal Communities of Mycenaean Greece: An Ethnoarchaeological
Contribution,” Second Annual Axel W. Persson Lectures on Aegean Prehistory, University
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of Uppsala, Sweden, May 20–21, 2015.
Invited lecture, “The Statue of Zeus at Olympia,” public lecture delivered at the University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, April 1, 2015.
Invited lecture, "Archaeology, Anthropology, Homer, and Hesiod: Recovering Lost Maritime
Small Worlds of Mycenaean Greece," delivered in the Penn Classical Studies Colloquium,
February 2015.
Invited seminar, “Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World,” Bryn Mawr College, March 29,
2012.
Invited lecture, “Ötzi the Iceman: The Puzzle of a 5300 Year-old Alpine Mummy,” public lecture
delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
February 1, 2012. Lecture posted online at: http://www.penn.museum/college-andadults/939-great-riddles-in-archaeology.html.
Invited lecture, “Mycenae's Principal Saronic Harbor? Investigations at Kalamianos, 2007–
2011,” presented at the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, December 15, 2011.
Invited lecture, “The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP): Investigations at
Kalamianos, 2007–2011,” presented at Yale University, October 21, 2011.
Invited seminar, "Pottery in Cross-Cultural Context: Valued Trade Item or Epiphenomenon?"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1, 2011.
Invited paper, Penn Museum Scholars Series: "Kalamianos: Investigating a Rare Mycenaean
Harbor Town," October 13, 2010.
Invited paper, "Rethinking Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World," Department of
Classical Studies Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, September 16, 2010.
Invited seminar, “Human Paleoecology and Understanding Past Human–Environment
Interactions,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2010.
Invited lecture, “Mycenae’s Principal Saronic Harbor? Investigations at Kalamianos, 2007–
2008,” Bryn Mawr College, March 2009.
Invited lecture, “Troy and the Trojan War,” part of Celebration of Turkish Culture Day,
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 2008.
Invited seminar, “Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
February 2008.
Invited lecture, “Korphos-Kalamianos: Investigations at a Newly Discovered Mycenaean Harbor
Town in the Corinthia, Greece,” Temple University, October 2007.
Invited seminar, “Archaeology and Science: An Introduction,” Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, February 2007.
Invited seminar “Archaeology and Science: An Introduction,” Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, February 2006.
Invited lecture, “Bronze Age Coastscapes and ‘Small Worlds’: Recent Discoveries in the Eastern
Corinthia,” New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, December 2005.
Invited seminar, “The Discovery of Archaeological Sites and Landscapes,” Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, March 2004 and April 2005.
Brown Bag presentation, “Vayia and Vassa: A New Class of EBA Fortified Site in Southern
Greece,” Yale University, Department of Anthropology, October 2004.
Invited lecture, “A Geoarchaeological Approach for Detecting Prehistoric Aegean Harbors,”
CMRAE Spring Seminar Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2003.
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Invited lecture, “In Search of Mycenaean Harbors: Archaeology, Geomorphology, and GIS,”
Norwalk Community College, October 2002.
Invited lecture, “Searching for Prehistoric Harbors in Greece,” Ezra Stiles College Fellows’ Lunch
Series, Yale University, February 2002.
Brown Bag presentation, “Mycenaean Coasts and Harbors: New Discoveries in the Eastern
Korinthia,” Yale University, Department of Anthropology, October 2001.
Brown Bag presentation, “Historical Landscapes at the Henry Whitfield House: Excavations
2000– 2001.” Yale University, Department of Anthropology, April 2001.
Invited lecture, “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Investigating Ancient Landscapes
in Southern Greece,” Archaeological Institute of America-New Haven Society, February
2001.
Brown Bag presentation, “Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey, the 2000 Season,” Yale
University, Department of Anthropology, November 2000.
Other lectures
Invited lecture, “Forensics and Ötzi the Iceman,” ESF Summer Camps (children ages 9–15), Penn
Museum, July 2012.
Public lecture, “The Mycenaean Cultural Tradition of Korphos: The Works of the American
School of Classical Studies at Korphos, Korinthias” (in Greek, with L. TzortzopoulouGregory and D.J. Pullen), delivered to community of Korphos, Greece, June 2008.
Public lecture, “The Yale University-Henry Whitfield State Museum Excavations,” delivered to
community in Guilford, Connecticut, May 2001, 2002, 2005.
Invited lecture, “Introduction to Archaeology,” Meru Educational Foundation summer program,
Arlington, MA, July 2003 (students 9–12 years of age).
Professional service: national and international
2013–present Archaeological Institute of America. Program for the Annual Meeting Committee.
2011
Organized and hosted week-long visit by Professor Maria Iacovou, University of
Cyprus, to Penn, funded by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
(USA).
2007–present American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Managing Committee.
2007–2012 American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory Committee.
2007–2013 Archaeological Institute of America. Archaeology in Higher Education
Committee.
2002
Organizing Committee. International Conference, “METRON: Measuring the
Aegean Bronze Age,” Yale University, April 18–22, 2002.
1999–2005 Archaeological Institute of America. Program for the Annual Meeting Committee.
Professional service: university and department
2012–present Chair, Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Program,
University of Pennsylvania.
2013–present Faculty Steering Committee, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials,
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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2012–2013
University of Pennsylvania, Dean’s ad hoc committee on archaeological science
in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
2010
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
committee for development of academic programs.
2010–present Advisor to Post-Baccalaureate students, Department of Classical Studies,
University of Pennsylvania.
2007–2009 Freshman Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.
2006–present Faculty in Graduate Groups: Classical Studies, Ancient History, Art & Archaeology
of the Mediterranean World.
2005–2006 Yale University, Department of Anthropology. Coordinator, Anthropology
Colloquium Series.
2005–2006 Yale University. GIS Steering Committee (interdepartmental).
2004–2005 Yale University, Department of Anthropology. Department Secretary.
2002–2006 Yale University. Council for Hellenic Studies Program.
2002–2006 Yale University. Ezra Stiles College, Freshman Academic Advisor.
2002–2003 Yale University Art Gallery. Search committee for Benenson Foundation
Curatorship of African Art.
2002
Yale University. Subcommittee, Committee on Yale College Education.
2001–2006 Yale University. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Archaeological Studies.
2000–2006 Yale University. Council on Archaeological Studies.
2000–2006 Yale University, Department of Anthropology. Several committees: junior faculty
search, graduate admissions, Schwartz Family Foundation Fund; Albers and
Hazard Funds, Coe Fund, Williams Fund, teaching equipment acquisition.
Reviewer and referee
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, manuscript reviewer, 2015
Antiquity, manuscript reviewer, 2015.
American Journal of Archaeology, manuscript reviewer, 2014.
National Geographic Society, applications for archaeological funding, 2011, 2012, 2014.
National Science Foundation, applications to Anthropology Section, 2004, 2009–2013, 2015.
Loeb Classical Library Foundation, applications for grants, 2013, 2014.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, evaluations, 2012, 2014.
Tenure review letters, 2010 (1 case), 2013 (3 cases), 2014 (1 case).
Austrian Science Fund/FWF, application for archaeological funding, 2014.
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, application for archaeological funding, 2013,
2014.
Israel Science Foundation, application for archaeological funding, 2012.
Council for British Research in the Levant, external manuscript reviewer, 2012.
Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, external manuscript reviewer, 2009, 2012, 2013.
Journal of Field Archaeology, external manuscript reviewer, 2009.
Schools of American Research Press, external manuscript reviewer, 2008.
Institute for Aegean Prehistory Press, external manuscript reviewer, 2008.
Cambridge University Press, external manuscript reviewer, 2004, 2014, 2015.
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Teaching experience: University of Pennsylvania
ANCH 026: History of Ancient Greece (F’06, 108 students)
CLST/AAMW 614: Regional Approaches to Greek Bronze Age Archaeology (F’06, 8)
CLST 111/ARTH 227/ANTH 111: Introduction to Mediterranean Archaeology (S’07, 13; S’08, 16;
F’08, 23; F’15, 29)
CLST 408: Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Greek World (S’07, 12)
CLST/AAMW 411: Landscape Archaeology (F’07, 8)
CLST 730/AAMW 722: From Bronze to Iron: Continuity and Change in Post-Mycenaean Greece
(F’07, 12)
CLST/AAMW 614: The Mycenae Shaft Graves (S’08, 10) (with P.P. Betancourt)
CLST/AAMW 614: The Northeastern Peloponnese (F’08, 15) (with J.C. Wright)
CLST/ARTH 202: Mycenae, Pylos, and Troy (S’09, 14; F’10, 14)
CLST/AAMW 532: Ancient Greek Colonies (S’09, 9; S’16)
CLST 602/ANTH 501: Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics I (F’10, 17) (with J. White, M.-C.
Boileau)
CLST 603/ANTH 502: Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics II (S’10, 12) (with J. White, M.-C.
Boileau)
CLST 281: Greek Dark Ages (S’11, 7)
AAMW 723/ARTH 720: Trade and Foreign Exchange between the Aegean and the East in the
Late Bronze Age (S’11, 7) (with P.P. Betancourt)
CLST 223: Ages of Homer (F’11, 4; F’14, 7)
CLST/AAMW 614: Seminar in Aegean Prehistory: Mycenae (F’11, 8)
CLST 123: Great Discoveries in Archaeology (S’12, 23; S’13, 48, S’15, 41)
AAMW 526: Proseminar: Materials and Methods (S’12, 8; S’13, 4; F’14, 7; S’16)
AAMW 999: Directed Study (Colleen Kron S’09; Amanda Reiterman F’08; Miriam Clinton F’07;
Sarah Linn S’12, L. Stephens S’14; Olivia Hayden F’14; Markos Kapes F’15))
ANTH 620: Directed Study (Susannah Fishman F’11, S’12)
CLST/AAMW 705: Ethnoarchaeology (S’15, 3)
CLST 500: Materials and Methods: Classical Studies/Ancient History Proseminar (F’15, 8)
On Leave, 2009–2010; 2013–2014
Previous Teaching Experience
Yale University, 2000–2006: Great Discoveries in Archaeology; Introduction to Archaeological
Methods; Archaeological Field Project; Archaeological Laboratory; Economies and Trade in the
Ancient Mediterranean; Introduction to Aegean Prehistory; Archaeology of the Minoan and
Mycenaean Worlds; Landscape Archaeology; Anthropological Approaches to Archaeological
Ceramics; Introduction to Ceramic Petrography.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998–2000: Seminar in Ancient Materials: Ceramics
(Parts I and II); Archaeology of Ancient Greece; Introduction to Materials Properties;
Introduction to Archaeology (with H. Merrick).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993–1996: teaching assistant for Seminar in Ancient
Materials: Metals (with H. Lechtman); Seminar in Ancient Materials: Plants (with J. Hansen and
C. Mandryck).
Boston University, 1988–1990: teaching assistant for Great Discoveries in Archaeology (with N.
Hammond, C. Runnels, P. McAnany). Boston University Teaching Prize for excellence in
graduate teaching, 1989.
Ph.D. dissertations supervised
Tanya McCullough (Penn, May 2014)
Miriam Clinton (Penn 2013), currently Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Rhodes College
Emily Anderson (Yale 2009), currently Lecturer, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins
University
Caitlín Barrett (Yale 2009), currently Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell
University
Elif Ünlü (Penn 2009), currently Full-Time Lecturer, Department of History, Boğaziçi Universitesi,
Istanbul, Turkey
Ph.D. advisor
Nurith Goshen (current)
Sarah Linn (current)
Ph.D. committee member
Peri Johnson (Penn 2010)
Beth Ann Judas (Penn 2010)
Emily Modrall (Penn 2011)
Justin Leidwanger (Penn 2011)
Linda Meiberg (Penn 2011)
Shannon Martino (Penn 2012)
Jose-Maria Lopez Bejarano (current)
Amanda Reiterman (current)
Lucas Stephens (current)
Kurtis Tanaka (current)
M.A. theses supervised
Amanda Ball (Penn 2015)
Tracy Bergstrom (Yale 2003)
Rose Drew (Yale 2004)
Larry Levan (Yale 2006)
Senior Essay advisor
Ava Childers (Penn 2010)
Melissa Eppiheimer (Yale 2001)
Amanda Reiterman (Yale 2002)
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Allysha Powanda (Yale 2003)
David Fabricant (Yale 2004)
Antasia Azure (Yale 2005)
Catherine Frieman (Yale 2005)
Miriam Clinton (Yale 2005)
Alejandra Riguero (Yale 2005)
Russell Schimmer (Yale 2005)
Thomas Hardy (Yale 2006)
Celia Muller (Yale 2006)
Undergraduate mentoring
Ava Childers (Penn 2010): advisor in Provost’s Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program and
in University Scholars program.
Freshman Academic Advisor, 2007–2009.
Other student mentoring
Post-baccalaureate student advising, University of Pennsylvania Post-Baccalaureate program in
Greek and Latin, 2010–present.
Editorial experience
1990–92
Journal of Field Archaeology Fellow, editing, proofreading, administrative
assistant to Managing Editor.
1990–95
American Journal of Archaeology, free-lance editing and proofreading.
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