Meet Our Lecturers

Gabriel Wrobel

Gabriel Wrobel is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. He holds his degrees from Indiana University (Ph.D.), and Emory University.  He is a bioarchaeologist of the ancient Maya region, particularly in Belize.  He is the Director of the Michigan State University Bioarchaeology Laboratory, as well as the Central Belize Archaeological Survey Project, which he has been involved with since 2009. More recently, he has served as the co-director of the Marco Gonzalez Archaeological Project since 2023. His current publications include Mesoamerican Osteobiographies: Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals (co-edited with Andrea Cucina) (UPF) and he co-authored “Catbirds and Crabholes: The 2023 Field Season at Marco Gonzalez, Belize” (Kratimenos et al.) published in Archaeology International.


Mantha Zarmakoupi

Mantha Zarmakoupi is the Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of At. She holds her degrees from St. John’s College at the University of Oxford (DPhil and MSt), and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (MA with distinction) and the National Technical University of Athens.  Her research interests include ancient art and architecture of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, urban and harbor infrastructure, and how cultural interactions between Romans and Greeks influenced their artistic productions.  She is the Director of the study and excavation of the he Bouleuterion and triporticus at Teos (Turkey), as well as the co-director of underwater surveys around Levitha, Kinaros and Maura (central Aegean Sea) and d Delos and Rheneia.  Her most current publications, Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy (Getty Publications, 2023) received the 2021 David R. Coffin Publication Grant of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.


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