Meet Our Lecturers - Archaeological Institute of America

Meet Our Lecturers

Shelley Wachsmann is with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, and the Meadows Professor of Biblical Archaeology with the Nautical Archaeology Program and Texas A& M University. He received his degrees from the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University (M.A. and Ph.D.), and his areas of specialization are Biblical archaeology, nautical archaeology, the Near East, trade, and archery. He has done extensive fieldwork, and his publications include "The Sea of Galilee Boat" (3rd edition 2009) and "Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant" (1998, 2nd printing 2009). He is an active member of the AIA Underwater Archaeology Committee/Interest Group, and was and AIA Joukowsky Lecturer in 2009/2010.

Haicheng Wang

Haicheng Wang is with the Department of Art History at the University of Washington in Seattle, and holds his degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D.), Peking University (M.A.), and Yantai University (B.A.). His current research is on the invention of writing and state formation in early China, and the Zhou bells and Chinese Museum before Confucius.

Andrew T. Wilburn

Andrew Wilburn is Associate Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, and holds his degrees from the University of Michigan (Ph.D.), the University of Maryland, and Randolph-Macon College. His areas of specialization are Graeco-Roman Egypt, and ancient religion and magic. He has conducted fieldwork at Abydos, Corinth, Tel Kedesh and Caesaerea in Israel, and on Cyprus. His book, Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain, will be published in Fall 2012 by the University of Michigan Press.

Carolyn Willekes

Carolyn Willekes is completing her Ph.D. with the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, and holds her M.A. from there and her B.A. from the University of Guelph. Her research interests are the breeding, training and use of the horse in the ancient world, the art and history of the Near East and East-West relations, Central Asian and Near Eastern nomadic groups, and Greek history and archaeology, especially the late Classical and Hellenistic periods. Her most recent publication will be "Horse Racing and Chariot Racing", co-authored with S. Bell, in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Robyn Woodward

Robyn Woodward is with Simon Fraser University, and she holds her degrees from Simon Fraser (Ph.D.), Texas A&M University, University College, Cardiff, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her fields of research are underwater archaeology and maritime history; she is currently the project archaeologist for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s Yukon River Survey, and directs the excavation of Sevilla la Nueva in Jamaica. Professor Woodward is the AIA’s 2012/2013 McCann/Taggart Lecturer.

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Christina Conlee is with the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University at San Marcos, and holds her degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara (Ph.D. and M.A.) and University... Read More