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 […]
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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, […]
Joan Breton Connelly is Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. An archaeologist who has excavated throughout Greece, Kuwait, and Cyprus (where she has directed the Yeronisos […]
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 […]
Professor Miriam T. Stark has worked in Southeast Asian archaeology since 1987 and currently directs field-based archaeological research programs in Cambodia that focus on political economy and state formation. She is a co-director of the […]
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 […]
Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Mikael Adolphson is Keidanren Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. A premodernist, he was inspired by the similarities […]
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 […]
Dr. William A. Parkinson is an expert in European and eastern Mediterranean prehistory. His research concerns the social dynamics of early village societies and the emergence of early states, such as […]
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 Executive Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, prior to which he was Director of Programs for the Archaeological Institute of America for 18 years and, concurrently, an Assistant and later Associate […]
Dr. Colleen Batey is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, with honorary positions at both the University of the Highlands and Islands and Hunter College, New […]
Albert Leonard, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Chicago), Professor Emeritus in both the Departments of Classical Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, is an archaeologist who specializes in the […]
James Higginbotham, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at Bowdoin College, holds a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. His scholarly interests focus on ancient Greek […]
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 […]
Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Cynthia W. Shelmerdine is Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics, emerita, at The University of Texas at Austin and a Research Associate […]
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 […]
Nicolle Hirschfeld’s current research in Turkey centers on the shipwrecked cargo recovered in the waters off Cape Gelidonya, in the Antalya region. This is the site where George Bass […]
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 […]
Since 1993, Stephen Harvey (Ph.D., U. of PA) has been Director of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project, which centers on excavation of the monumental complex of King Ahmose at Abydos, […]
