Meet Our Lecturers
Garrett Fagan

Professor Garrett G. Fagan has taught at Pennsylvania State University since 1996. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He received his Ph.D. from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and has an extensive research record in Roman history, Latin epigraphy, and method in archaeology, and has held a prestigious Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Cologne. He has published numerous articles in international journals, and his first monograph, Bathing in Public in the Roman World, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 1999. He has also edited a volume on the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology (2006), and has a number of forthcoming works on Roman baths and water use, and the Roman arena.

Julie Field

Julie Field is an Assistant Professor of  Anthropology at The Ohio State University, and holds her degrees from the University of Hawai‘i (M.A., Ph.D.) and the University of Washington (B.A.).  Her training in archaeology began as a high school field school student at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in 1989, and she has also worked at museums and research institutes in the United States and Great Britain.  Her main research focus is the prehistory of Pacific Islands, primarily Hawaii and Fiji.  Her latest research in Hawaii has examined the growth of populations and the creation of an agricultural landscape in the district of Kohala, Hawaii Island.  She has also worked for the last decade on the investigation of island settlement and conflict in the interior of Viti Levu, Fiji.

William Fitzhugh

William Fitzhugh is with the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, and holds his degrees from Harvard (Ph.D. and M.A.) and Dartmouth (B.A.).  Dr. Fitzhugh’s areas of specialization are arctic archaeology, circumpolar cultures, Mongolia, and Vikings (especially in the Western Atlantic).  He has done fieldwork in the North Atlantic regions and arctic Russia, and in Mongolia, and has been recognized for his work in exhibits, documentaries, and research.

Michael Fuller

Dr. Michael Fuller was a Geology major in college, but turned to Anthropology for his MA and PhD, both received from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as a contract archaeologist for Missouri State University in the 1970s before joining the faculty of St. Louis Community College during 1982. Dr. Fuller is a specialist in Near Eastern Archaeology (Egypt, Jordan, and Syria). He co-directed rescue excavations at the site of Tell Tuneinir from 1987 until 2001. His latest work has focused on the medieval archaeological remains of the Slavic populations on the border of Eastern Europe and the Middle East.  Honor and awards include a Fulbright Travel Grant to Russia in 2006, and the AIA’s Joukowsky Distinguished Service Award (shared by Neathery Fuller) in 2009.

Andrew Goldman

Andrew Goldman is Associate Professor of History with Gonzaga University.  He received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology), and his research interests include Roman Anatolia, the Roman military, and Roman pottery.  Professor Goldman has worked at many sites throughout Turkey, including Çatal Höyük, and since 1992 he has been working at the ancient site of Gordion.  The finds at Gordion are some of the earliest Roman military equipment excavated in the Roman East, and the site is the only Roman military base of its period to ever have been explored in Turkey.

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Bettina Arnold obtained her BA in Archaeology from Yale University and her MA and PhD degrees in Anthropology from Harvard University. She is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-... Read More

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