Meet Our Lecturers

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 specializes in Egyptian art and archaeology, and has done fieldwork at Karanis and Luxor in Egypt and Umm el-Marra in Syria.

Molly Swetnam-Burland is the Department of Classical Studies at the College of William & Mary, and holds her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  Her fields of interest are Roman art, painting and sculpture, and the relation between Rome and Egypt.  Among the honors she has received for her work, she held the 2011 DAI Study in Berlin Fellowship.

 

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Jennifer Tobin is with the University of Illinois at Chicago, and holds her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania  (Ph.D.) and Stanford University.  Her areas of specialization are Roman archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolian archaeology, and since 1997 she has been the Architectural Consultant to the Tel er Ras excavations in Israel.

Joshua Trampier is Project Director with Statistical Research, Inc., and is Associate Director of the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL).   He holds his degrees from Missouri State University (B.A. in History and Antiquities) and the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology), and his areas of specialization are Egypt (Neolithic to late Roman/early Islamic periods), landscape archaeology, relations between state and social identity in frontier zones, and the relationships between archaeological practice, CRM-relevant law, tourism and technology.  He is also interested in digital initiatives, data modelling, visualization, and virtualization.  He has been conducting fieldwork in Egypt since 2002, and was Field Director for the Western Delta Landscape Project in Egypt in 2008.  Dr Trampier is a contributing author of “Cooperative Digitization of International Research Materials”, a U.S. Department of Education TICFIA-funded project.

 

Francesca Tronchin is with the Department of Art at Rhodes College, and holds her degrees from Boston University (Ph.D. and M.A.) and Smith College (B.A.).  Her areas of specialization are Roman art and architecture, Roman domestic décor and collecting among the Romans, Pompeii, and fakes and forgeries in museums.

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Mary Voigt is Emerita with the College of William and Mary, and holds her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.) and Marquette University.  Her areas of specialization are the Iron... Read More

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