Nicholas David is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology with the University of Calgary, and holds his degrees from Harvard University (Ph.D.), and the University of Cambridge. He has been Director of the Mandara Archaeological Project since 1984, and done extensive work at a number of sites in Cameroon and Nigeria.
Francesco de Angelis is Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology with Columbia University, where he is also the Vice-Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean and Associate Director of the Center for Archaeology. He holds his degrees in Classics and Classical Archaeology from the University of Pisa. His area of specialization is Etruscan and Roman art and archaeology, and he has received numerous awards from his research and teaching. He has worked on various cataloguing projects of Etruscan and Roman materials, has published widely, and is Co-Editor of Etruscan News and Oebalus.
James P. Delgado has led or participated in shipwreck expeditions around the world. His undersea explorations include RMS Titanic, the discoveries of Carpathia, the ship that rescued Titanic’s survivors, and the notorious “ghost ship” Mary Celeste, as well as surveys of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, the sunken fleet of atomic-bombed warships at Bikini Atoll, the polar exploration ship Maud, wrecked in the Arctic, the 1846 wreck of the United States naval brig Somers, whose tragic story inspired Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, and Sub Marine Explorer, a civil war-era find and the world’s oldest known deep-diving submarine. His archaeological work has also included the excavation of ships and collapsed buildings along the now-buried waterfront of Gold Rush San Francisco. He is currently Director of Maritime Heritage, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the national Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is a past President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, and is Adjunct Professor of Archaeology with Simon Fraser University. He holds his degrees from San Francisco State University (B.A.), East Carolina University (M.A.) and Simon Fraser University (Ph.D.), and was previously the Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum in British Columbia, and the head Maritime Historian of the U.S. National Park Service. Professor Delgado has published over 32 books, and was the host of the National Geographic TV series The Sea Hunters.
John Dobbins is with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and holds his degrees from the University of Michigan (Ph.D.), Boston University, and College of the Holy Cross. He specializes in ancient Roman art and archaeology, and since 1994 has been the Director of the Pompeii Forum Project, having also worked at Morgantina in Sicily and at La Befa. Professor Dobbins is a past Joukowsky Lecturer for the AIA.
Katherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics, McMaster University, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics, Roman dining customs, and theater and spectacle in the Roman Empire, and she has published widely on these topics. She served as the specialist on the Roman mosaics for the University of Michigan excavations at Carthage, and has also worked at a number of sites in Italy. Professor Dunbabin is an AIA Norton Lecturer for 2012/2013.
