AIA Tour bios
Award-winning archaeologist, author, and National Geographic Explorer and grantee Patrick Hunt earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has taught at Stanford University […]
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Dr. Stephen Mandal is an expert on the Irish landscape, its archaeology, history, and geology. He is the co-founder of award-winning educational organizations: the Irish Heritage School, Cultural Tourism Ireland, […]
Dr. Michael Hoff, Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and a former member of the AIA’s Board of Trustees, is a classical archaeologist who specializes […]
Dr. Mary MacLeod Rivett was born in London, England, to a Scottish-Canadian family. Her father’s family was from Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and she spent a lot of time in the […]
Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Elizabeth Pierce was a journalist before pursuing her master’s degree and Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The main focus of […]
Jodi Magness is a past President of the Archaeological Institute of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2002, she has been the Kenan […]
Dr. Jeff Karl Kowalski is an expert on Maya art and architecture. He is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where he taught from 1982 to 2015, after […]
Dr. Val Turner has been Shetland’s Regional Archaeologist since the post was created in 1986, and she lives in Shetland on a small croft with her husband. She has Project Managed […]
Miriam T. Stark will share insights with you throughout this journey into Southeast Asia’s past. With nearly four decades of field experience in the region, Professor Stark directs archaeological research […]
Alexander Nagel (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) is Assistant Professor teaching the interconnections between Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Art at the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute […]
Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Joyce C. White will share insights with you throughout this journey. Dr. White has worked in Southeast Asian archaeology since the mid-1970s and […]
Ben Thomas is the Executive Director of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and Associate Professor in Liberal Arts at Berklee College of Music. Prior to joining SAH he was […]
Kathleen Lynch is the Dorothy and Marion Rawson Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a classical archaeologist with a focus on ancient Greek […]
Since 2002, Stephen Harvey (Ph.D., U. of PA) has accompanied 25 AIA Tours of Egypt, plus AIA Tours land programs in Jordan and Sudan, and an AIA-sponsored cruise from Jordan […]
A professor of ancient art history and a classical archaeologist, Jenifer Neils is an expert on the ancient Mediterranean. For the last five years she served as the first woman […]
C. Brian Rose (Ph.D., Columbia) is an expert on ancient Rome who has earned rave reviews on previous AIA Tours for both his engaging lectures and congenial manner. He is […]
Dr. Paul G. Bahn is a leading archaeological writer, translator, and broadcaster in the field of archaeology. He is a Contributing Editor of the AIA’s Archaeology magazine, and has written […]
