Meet Our Lecturers - Archaeological Institute of America

Meet Our Lecturers

Andrew M.T. Moore is Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds his degrees from the University of London, Harvard, and Oxford (M.A. and D. Phil.), and his areas of specialization include the archaeology of Western Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, the theory and practice of archaeology, prehistoric economies, the advent of agriculture in Southwest Asia, Syria and the Mediterranean Basin, complex societies and town life in Western Asia. He has done extensive fieldwork, published widely, and is First Vice President of the AIA.

Holley Moyes

Holly Moyes is Assistant Professor with the University of California at Merced, and holds her degrees from Florida Atlantic University (M.A.) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D.). Her areas of specialization are Mesoamerica and the archaeology of religion, cave archaeology, sacred spaces, spatial analysis, the use of GIS in archaeology, the dynamics of complex societies, leadership strategies, and humans and the environment. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Belize and the U.S. Southwest. Her most recent publications include “The Ancient Maya Drought Cult: Late Classic Cave Use in Belize” (with J.J. Awe, G. Brook and J. Webster, 2009, Latin American Antiquity).

John Papadopoulos

John K. Papadopoulos is Professor of Archaeology & Classics with the Cotsen Institute, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Papadopoulos received his PhD from the University of Sydney, and remained there as a professor until 1994, when he took a curator position at the J. Paul Getty Museum. His areas of specialization are the archaeology of Greece (especially Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Archaic and Classical periods), the archaeology of colonization, and the integration of archaeological and literary evidence in the study of the past. He has excavated widely in Australia at Aboriginal and historic sites, as well as in Greece, Albania and Italy. He is currently the co-director at excavations of a prehistoric burial tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania. Professor Papadopoulos has authored, co-authored or edited 9 books and over 75 articles. He has held both the AIA’s Norton and Joukowksy Fellowships, and in 2010/2011 was the AIA’s Thompson Lecturer.

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Jacques Perreault

Jacques Perreault is Professor of Greek Archaeology with the Université de Montreal, and holds his degrees from Universite Laval in Quebec (B.A. and M.A.) and Ecole des Hautes Studes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (Ph.D.). He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Nice, and the Australian Archaeological Institute. His areas of specialization are Greek pottery, colonization, and trade and contacts between the ancient Greeks and non-Greeks. Since 1992 he has been co-director of Greek-Canadian excavations at ancient Argilos, and Director of Canadian excavations at Ras el Bassit in Syria.

Lisa Pieraccini

Lisa C. Pieraccini received her Ph.D at UC Santa Barbara. Pieraccini lived in Rome for many years where she taught and conducted research at the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. She now teaches in the History of Art Department at the University of California Berkeley. Active at the southern Etruscan city, Caere (known today as Cerveteri), her research interests and publications include Etruscan pottery, burial customs, Etruscan and Roman wall painting and the reception of the Etruscans in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her book, Around the Hearth: Caeretan Cylinder-Stamped Braziers (2003) is the first comprehensive study of a unique class of over 350 Etruscans braziers. Her analysis examines different aspects of origin, production, iconography, style and chronology.

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Dr. Bridget Buxton is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Rhode Island. She holds her degrees from Victoria University of Wellington (M.A.) and University of California,... Read More