Susanne Grieve is Director of Conservation at East Carolina University, Lead Conservator for the Antarctic Heritage Trust, and has been a senior conservator with Global Artifact Preservation Services and the Mariners’ Museum. She holds her degrees from University College, London, Flinders University, and the University of West Florida. Her fields of specialization include conservation of 20th century materials, preservation in extreme environments, and organic residue analysis.
John R. Hale is the Director of Liberal Studies for the College of Arts and Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Archaeology, at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his B.A. at Yale University and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University. Professor Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology, as well as more specialized courses on the Bronze Age, the ancient Greeks, the Roman world, Celtic cultures, Vikings, and on nautical and underwater archaeology. He has received many awards for distinguished teaching, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award. He has been published in the journal Antiquity, The Classical Bulletin, The Journal of Roman Archaeology, and Scientific American, and is also the author of Lords of the Sea (2009), a volume about the ancient Athenian navy. Professor Hale has more than 30 years of fieldwork experience, including at the Romano-British site of Dragonby in Lincolnshire, and at the Roman Villa of Torre de Palma, Portugal. He has also carried out interdisciplinary studies of ancient oracle sites in Greece and Turkey, including the famous Delphic Oracle, and participated in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost fleets from the time of the Persian Wars. He was an AIA Norton Lecturer for 2009/2010.
Jeremy Hartnett is Associate Professor of Classics with Wabash College. He holds his degrees from the University of Michigan (M.A. and Ph.D.), was awarded the American Academy in Rome 2003 Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Awards, and was a 2008 NEH Summer Seminar Participant. His areas of specialization are Roman urbanism and social history, Pompeii, Herculaneum and the bay of Naples, architecture and urbanism, Greek and Roman art and archaeology, and Latin language and literature. He has conducted fieldwork at Herculaneum and Pompeii, and at a number of other sites in Italy.
Nicolle Hirschfeld is with the Department of Classical Studies at Trinity University, and is also a Research Associate with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. She holds her degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), Texas A&M University (M.A.), and Bryn Mawr College (B.A.). Her current interests are exchange among Late Bronze Age cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, the maritime archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean, ancient technologies and the development of writing, ancient industries (particularly ceramics), and the archaeological history of Cyprus. Professor Hirschfeld has received numerous awards for her work, published widely, and is an AIA Kershaw Lecturer for 2012/2013
Michael Hoff is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he has taught since 1989. His research interests include Greek architecture, the architectural topography of Athens during the Roman period, and the archaeology of Asia Minor. He is Director of the Antiocheia ad Cragum Excavations in Turkey, and has participated in excavations in North Wales, Corinth, Crete, Nemea, and Rough Cilicia in southern Turkey. He is co-editor of The Romanization of Athens (1998), and has published articles in a wide array of scholarly journals. Professor Hoff is an active member of the AIA, and the founder and president of the Lincoln-Omaha Society.
