Faculty and Staff

Major Advisors

Graduate Advisor

Faculty

Jennie Bradbury

Assistant Professor and Department Co-Chair of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Focus

Social complexity in the ancient Near East; the role of "non-optimal" zones; burial traditions and mortuary practices; landscape archaeology, GIS and archaeological survey techniques; and cultural heritage.

Contact
Phone 610-526-5659
Location Old Library 214
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Astrid Lindenlauf

Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus

Classical art and archaeology, practices of disposal and recycling, fortifications and urban development; intellectual history of archaeology

Contact
Phone 610-526-5640
Location Old Library 228
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JJ Shirley

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus

Late Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom socio-political history and administration; manifestations of social status in art and architecture; Theban tombs; landscape archaeology; archaeological recording methodologies; site management and accessibility; historiography of Egyptology

Contact
Location Old Library
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Rocco Palermo

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus

Ancient Empires, Archaeology of South-West Asia from the Iron Age to the Roman Period, Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, Pottery Studies, Fieldwork Methodologies and Techniques, Drones in Archaeology.
 

Contact
Phone 610-526-5385
Location Old Library 221
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Wu Xin

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus

Achaemenid Empire; Central Asian Art and Archaeology; Cultural interactions between the East and West

Contact
Phone 610-526-5345
Location Old Library 233
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Asil Yaman

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus

Archaeology of Rhodian Peraea and Carian Chersonese, Rural Archaeology in Context, Roman Pottery, Archaeology and Sustainability

Contact
Location Old Library 217
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Research Associates

Evrydiki Tasopoulou

Research Associate
Areas of Focus

Classical art and archaeology, representations of animals in ancient Greek art, interconnections between ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East.

Contact
Location Old Library

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Staff

Camilla MacKay

Director of Library Research, Instruction, and Patron Services and Scholarly Communications Librarian
Areas of Focus

Archaeology, Classics, History of Art, Philosophy
Open access, copyright, scholarly communications

Contact
Phone 610-526-7910
Location Carpenter Library A17
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Emeritus

A. A. Donohue

Rhys Carpenter Professor Emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Research Professor
Areas of Focus

History and historiography of classical art

James C. Wright

William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Professor Emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus

Aegean prehistory and Greek archaeology, spatial theory, archaeological theory and method.

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Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Phone: 610-526-5053 or 610-526-5334
Fax: 610-526-7955