Joshua Wright is a Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asia Studies and Anthropology at Oberlin College. He holds his degrees from the Harvard University (Ph.D.), Cambridge University, and Vassar College. His fields of interests include landscape archaeology, pastoral nomads, megaliths, human ecology, Eurasia, East Asia, and Inner Asia. He has done extensive fieldwork in Mongolia and China, and has also worked at a wide variety of other sites in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Nikos Xanthoulis is an Associate Researcher with the Academy of Athens, Greece, and Head of Educational Programs with the Greek National Opera. He holds his degrees from the Sofia Music Academy (Ph.D.), the Panteion University of Athens, and the Athens and Athenaeum Conservatories. His fields of research are ancient Greek music, the ancient Greek trumpet (Salpinx) and lyre, and the performance of ancient Greek lyric songs. Dr. Xanthoulis is an AIA Kress Lecturer for 2012/2013.
John Younger is Professor of Classics and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Kansas University, Lawrence. He holds a B.A. from Stanford, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati, and also studied at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the British School of Archaeology at Athens. His areas of specialization are the art and archaeology of pre-classical and classical Greece, Aegean seals, classical sculpture and architecture, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, gender issues in academe, and internet technology and humanities computing. He has done field work in Greece, Italy and Israel, and has published widely, recent works including “Seals and Sealing Rings” (Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome, vol. 6, 2010), “Technical Observations on the Scuptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia” (with P. Rehak, Hesperia 78, 2009), and “’We are Woman’: Girl. Maiden, Matron in Aegean Art” (Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and Mediterranean, K. Kopaka and R. Laffineur, eds., Aegaeum 30, 2009).
