Meet Our Lecturers
Lanny Bell

Visting Researcher in Egyptology at Brown University, Lanny Bell is an acknowledged leader in the documentation of the monuments of ancient Egypt and the interpretation of ancient Egyptian culture.  He received his BA in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1963; in 1976 he received his PhD in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania.  He has been teaching since 1965.  Professor Bell specializes in ancient Egyptian divine kingship, the temples of Thebes, and Egyptian epigraphy.  No armchair scholar, he has been active in Egypt since 1967, conducting fieldwork in Luxor for the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.  He has been lecturing for the AIA since 1971, and has accompanied numerous tours to Egypt since 1973. 

Sinclair Bell

Sinclair Bell is with the School of Art at Northern Illinois University, and holds his degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cologne, Oxford University, and Wake Forest University.  His areas of specialization are Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology, sport and spectacle in the ancient world, and materials culture studies.  His most current publication (in preparation) is “The Roman Circus: A Cultural History”, and he is the recipient of a DAI/AIA Study in Berlin Fellowship.

James Brady

James Brady  is with California State University, Los Angeles, and holds his degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D.), California State University, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley.  His research interests are ideology in complex societies, religion, cultural landscapes, ethnoarchaeology, cave archaeology, and archaeological method and theory.  He is presently conducting fieldwork at Midnight Terror Cave in Belize, has also worked at a number of sites in Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, and Hawaii, and has published extensively.

Peter Brand

Peter Brand is the Dunavant Professor of Ancient History with the University of Memphis, and the Director of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project.  He holds his degrees from the University of Toronto (Ph.D.), the University of Memphis, and the University of Texas at Arlington, and his areas of specialization are Egyptian history, Egyptian foreign relations (especially with the Hittites), New Kingdom Egyptian epigraphy and political culture, and Egyptian texts.

Scott Branting

Scott Branting is Director of the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL), and Assistant Professor with the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.  He holds his degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D. and M.A.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and Wheaton College (B.A.).  His areas of specialization are Near Eastern archaeology (especially that of Anatolia), science in archaeology (GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, modeling, etc.), landscape archaeology, transportation, settlement & urbanism, and social organization.  Professor Branting is co-director of the Kerkenes Dağ Archaeological Project in Turkey.

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Elaine Sullivan is with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA, and holds her degrees from Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.) and Duke University.  Professor Sullivan... Read More

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