Since 1993, Jack Davis has held the endowed post of Carl Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati and, since 2015, he has co-directed the team that discovered the spectacular grave of the Griffin Warrior and two Mycenaean beehive tombs at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. Davis has authored or edited a dozen books and has written or co-authored some 120 articles in scholarly journals. For his work he has been honored by the German and Finnish archaeological institutes in Greece, and by the Archaeological Society of Athens. He is an honorary citizen of Pylos, and has been medaled by both the presidents of Greece and Albania. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Archaeological Institute of America’s Gold Medal for lifetime achievement. Davis is a former director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). He is at present a Trustee of that institution as well as an Overseer of its Gennadius Library. Most recently the Trustees of the ASCSA have awarded him its prestigious Athens Prize.
