Christina Luke is with Boston University, and holds her degrees from Cornell University (Ph.D.) and Scripps College. Her research interests are Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean, Mesoamerica and Central America, and cultural policy and heritage studies. Professor Luke is the 2012/2013 AIA Wilkie Lecturer.
Kathleen Lynch is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, and has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Missouri. She is a specialist in Greek pottery, particularly vase-painting and the social aspects of pottery, and has completed fieldwork in Albania, Greece, and Turkey. She earned her Ph.D. and her M.A. at the University of Virginia, after completing her undergraduate work at Boston University. She has published widely, and has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships for her work.
One of Professor Lynch's main publications is The Symposium in Context: Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora, published as Hesperia supplement 46, 2011. This volume addresses for the first time a collection of pottery used at symposia that has been found in a domestic context in Athens (rather than a funerary context, which is more usual for such pottery). In the volume Professor Lynch discusses form, function, and context without ignoring the social aspects of Athenian drinking parties as well as other household activities. More details can be found at: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications/book/?i=9780876615461
Michael MacKinnon (PhD University of Alberta) reconstructs the role of animals in antiquity through integrative analyses involving ancient textual, artistic, and archaeological data. He has worked at more than 50 different sites in the ancient Mediterranean, from the west to the east, including excavations in Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, and Egypt. He specializes in zooarchaeology, examining animal bones from archaeological sites. Publications include "Production and Consumption of Animals in Roman Italy: Integrating the Zooarchaeological and Textual Evidence" (2004; Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplement Series 54), and "State of the Discipline: Osteological Research in Classical Archaeology." American Journal of Archaeology 111: 473-504. Dr. MacKinnon works extensively in both the ancient Greek and Roman context. He has held posts as Rome Scholar (British School at Rome) and Malcolm H. Wiener Professor (American School of Classical Studies at Athens).
Jodi Magness is with the Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. She holds her degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.), and her areas of expertise are the archaeology of Palestine in the Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic Periods, ancient pottery, ancient synagogues, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Roman army in the East. Professor Magness is currently the Co-Director of excavations at the Roman fort site of Yotvata, Israel and has also worked at Khirbet Yattir and Masada in Israel, Caesarea Maritima, the Athenian Agora, and ancient Corinth, Greece. She has published widely, and was the recipient of the 2008 AIA Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
A course by Jodi Magness, "The Holy Land Revealed" is available on DVD through The Teaching Company's Great Courses at http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=6220
Colleen Manassa is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Associate Professor of Egyptology with Yale University, and holds her degrees from Yale. She is the Director of the Mo‘alla Survey Project, and is Egyptologist and Epigrapher for the Theban Desert Road Survey. Professor Manassa has published and lectured widely on her work.
