Bios for lecture program
Dr. Ashley Lemke is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and Explorers Club Fellow. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and received her PhD in Anthropology from the University […]
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Dr. Justin Dunnavant holds the Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology at UCLA. His first book, Colonialism, Ecology and Slavery, under contract with Princeton University Press, investigates the relationship between […]
Nicholas Bartos is a Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. He completed his PhD in Classics at Stanford University (2024) and […]
Solange Ashby is an Assistant Professor in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA where she teaches Egyptology and Nubian Studies. Dr. Ashby’s expertise in ancient languages, […]
Professor Akin Ogundiran is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of History, and Affiliate Professor in Anthropology and Black Studies at Northwestern University. He is also the […]
Professor Christopher DeCorse is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Syracuse University. He is also a Senior Research Associate of the Maxwell African Scholars Union, and […]
Professor Whitney Battle-Baptiste is a Professor of Anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst. She holds degrees from Virginia […]
Dimitris Plantzos is a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National& Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the co-director of the Argos Orestikon Excavation Project (Kastoria, Greece). He holds […]
Bice Peruzzi is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the construction of cultural identity in pre-Roman Italy. […]
Dr. Jayur Madhusudan Mehta is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Florida State University. He holds degrees from the University of Alabama (M.A.) and University of North Carolina (B.A.), and […]
Professor Liwy Grazioso is the current Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala. She received her degree in Archaeology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) Mexico, and […]
Dr. Anastasia Dakouri-Hild is an Associate Professor in Aegean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia. She holds degrees in Greek Archaeology from the University of […]
Uzma Z. Rizvi is Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Archaeology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan. Dr. […]
Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz serves as the Tanner-Opperman Chair of African Art History in Honor of Roy Sieber for the Department of Art History at Indiana University as well as a distinguished […]
Dr. Jennifer G. Thum is the Inga Maren Otto Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, as well as a Museum Educator for the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. She […]
Jon Frey is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Michigan State University, and holds his degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.), and Ohio State University. His research interests include architectural […]
Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago; he holds his degrees from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (MA) and the […]
Elizabeth Marlowe is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art department Colgate University; she is also the founder and director of the program in Museum Studies. She holds […]
Jennifer Ramsay is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SUNY Brockport; she holds her degrees from Simon Frasier University (Ph.D.), the University of Sheffield (MSc.), and the University […]
Tate Paulette is an archaeologist and Associate Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey, Scotland, […]
