National Lecture Program

AIA Lecturer: Christopher L. Witmore

Affiliation: Texas Tech University

Christopher Witmore is Associate Professor with the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University.  He holds his degrees from Stanford University (Ph.D.), the University of Sheffield, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; his research interests are classical archaeology, material culture, landscape archaeology and human ecology in the Mediterranean (especially southern Greece), the Roman built environment in Northern Britain, and archaeological memories of a POW camp in Norway.  His current publication projects include Objects, Metamorphoses and Time: Object-oriented philosophy and archaeology in conversation (co-author with G. Harman), Old Lands. A Chorography of the Eastern Morea, Greece, and Open pasts. What becomes of archaeological things.

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