Sabine Ladstätter is the Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and is Excavation Director at Ephesus. She holds her degrees from the University of Vienna (Ph.D.) and the Karl-Franzens-Universität (University of Graz), and her areas of specialization are Roman archaeology, landscape archaeology, pottery, and archaeological method. Dr. Ladstätter has been named Austrian Scientist of the Year, and is a AIA Kress Lecturer for 2012/2013.
Professor Lynne Lancaster is Associate Professor with the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University, Athens. She holds her degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B.A. in architecture), Lincoln College (M.A. in Classical Archaeology), and Wolfson College, Oxford University (Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology). Her interests include Roman architecture, construction and technology and she has worked on many of the standing structures in Rome including Trajan’s Markets and the Colosseum, and as architectural consultant at various locations in Italy. She has also conducted surveys of provincial vaulting techniques in Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt, Britain and Greece. Professor Lancaster has published extensively, and her Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovation in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2005) received the AIA’s 2007 James R. Wiseman Book Award. In 2010/2011 she held the AIA Joukowsky Lecturership.
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Michael Laughy is with the Department of Classics at Washington and Lee University, and holds his degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.), Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of New Hampshire. His areas of specialization are the history and archaeology of ancient Athens, the ancient Greek and Roman historians, ancient Greek religion and epigraphy, and world archaeology.
David Lee is with the American Rock Art Research Association, as well as Western Rock Art Research, the Mohave Rock Art Workshop, the Nevada Rock Art Foundation, the California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program, and the Australia Rock Art Research Association. His particular fields of expertise include rock art of the Western U.S. and Australian rock art, and the archaeology of California, Mojave Desert, and the Great Basin.
Professor Stephen Lekson is with the University of Colorado, and holds his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He specializes in the archaeology of the U.S. Southwest, particularly Chaco Canyon and the Mimbres region. He has worked on numerous field projects, most recently at Woodrow Ruin, Black Mountain, and Pinnacle Ruin in New Mexico, and at Chimney Rock Great House in Colorado.
