Meet Our Lecturers - Archaeological Institute of America

Meet Our Lecturers

Ronald Marchese is with the Department of Humanities and Classics at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, and holds his degrees from New York University (Ph.D.), Columbia University, and Fresno City College. His fields include the archaeology of Bronze Age, Archaic, and Classical Greece, late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, Bronze Age Anatolia, nomadic and village life of the modern Middle East, and Armenian religious textiles. His recent volume, Splendor and Pageantry: Textile Treasures from the Armenian Orthodox Churches of Istanbul, co-authored with Marlene Breu, has received the R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award from the Textile Society of America.

Myles McCallum

Myles McCallum is Associate Professor of Classics at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada. He received his B.A. from the University of Alberta and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo, and he specializes in the Roman archaeology and economy, Archaeological ceramics, Roman villas and urbanism. He is the Director of the San Felice Research Project in Puglia, Field Laboratory Director at the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project, and has also worked at Porta Stabia. His recent publications include “the Production and Distribution of Pottery at Pompeii: A Review of the Evidence” Parts 1 and 2 (with J.T. Peña, American Journal of Archaeology, 2009), and “The Supply of Stone to the City of Rome: A Case Study of the Transport of Ancient Building Stone and Millstone from the Santa Trinità Quarry (Orvieto)” (in Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory, 2009)

Stephen McCluskey

Stephen C. McCluskey is Professor Emeritus of History with West Virginia University, and holds his degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S. in Physics) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D. in History of Science). His research interests include the orientation of English churches, medieval astronomy, and North American native astronomy. Since 1998 he has been co-editor of Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, and his recent publications include “Astronomies and Cosmologies in the Latin West (in Cosmology Across Cultures, SEAC 2008 Proceedings). Professor McCluskey has been a Webster Lecturer for the AIA, and is the 2012/2013 Forsyth Lecturer.

Kevin McGeough

Kevin McGeough is with the Department of Geography (Archaeology) at the University of Lethbridge, and holds his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.), Harvard University, and the University of Lethbridge. His areas of specialization include Bronze and Iron Age Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean, multidisciplinary approaches to the same, and Near Eastern studies during the 19^th century/Victorian period. Professor McGeough is also the Editor for the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Archaeological Report Series, and his publications include Exchange Relationships at Ugarit: A Study of the Ugaritic Economic Texts (2007, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 26), and Ugaritic Economic tablets: Text, Translation, and Notes (2011, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 32).

Gretchen E. Meyers

Gretchen Meyers is with Franklin & Marshall College, and holds her degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.) and Duke University. Her research interests are Roman and Etruscan Archaeology, the Tiber River and Roman topography, Roman space and urban theory. She is Director of Archaeological Materials for the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project (Poggio Colla) in Italy.

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Dr. Michael Fuller was a Geology major in college, but turned to Anthropology for his MA and PhD, both received from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as a contract archaeologist for... Read More