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They will be with you every step of the way, enhancing your experience with their insights and informal presentations.<br> <br> </font></p> <table width="504" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="25%"> <div align="left"> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#baker_anchor" target="_self">Donald Baker</a><a href="#barletta anchor" target="_self"><br clear="all"> <br clear="all"> Barbara A. Barletta<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" color="maroon" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#barnes_anchor" target="_self">Gina Barnes</a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#barletta anchor" target="_self"><br> <br> </a><a href="#Benjamin_anchor" target="_self">Lanny Bell<br> <br> Craig G. R. Benjamin<br> <br> </a><a href="#bianchi anchor" target="_self">Robert Bianchi<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial"><strong><a href="#blomster_anchor" target="_self">Jeffrey Blomster</a></strong></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#blomster_anchor" target="_self"><br> <br> </a><a href="#bonfante anchor" target="_self">Larissa Bonfante<br> <br> </a><a href="#cooler anchor">Richard Cooler</a><a href="#Cornell_anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#Cornell_anchor" target="_self">Gail Cornell</a><a href="#Cornell_anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#dever anchor">William G. Dever</a><a href="#Cornell_anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#foss anchor">Pedar W. Foss</a><a href="#Fentress_anchor"><br> <br> Elizabeth Fentress<br> <br> </a></b></font></div> </td> <td valign="top" width="27%"> <div align="left"> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#fritz anchor"><b>John M. Fritz </b></a><b><a href="#Cornell_anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#greene anchor">Joseph A. Greene<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial"><b><a href="#harl anchor" target="_self">Kenneth W. Harl<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#Henderson anchor">John Henderson</a><a href="#greene anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#hillis anchor">Gregory Hillis</a><a href="#kawami anchor"><br> <br> Trudi Kawami<br> <br> </a><a href="#Kim anchor">Christine Kim</a><br> <a href="#kawami anchor"><br> </a><a href="#kenoyer anchor">Jonathan M. Kenoyer</a><a href="#greene anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#larick anchor">Roy Larick</a><a href="#greene anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#marchand anchor">Trevor Marchand</a><a href="#McDonnell_anchor" target="_self"><br> <br> Myles McDonnell<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1"><a href="#messier anchor"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Ronald Messier</b></font></a></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#greene anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#michell anchor">George Michell</a><a href="#greene anchor"><br> <br> </a></b></font></div> </td> <td valign="top" width="28%"> <div align="left"> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#millward anchor">James Millward</a><a href="#greene anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#nagy anchor">Blaise Nagy<br> </a><a href="#nelson anchor" target="_self"><br> </a><a href="#pearson anchor">Richard J. Pearson</a><a href="#nagy anchor"><br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial"><strong><a href="#Perkins_anchor">Kenneth Perkins<br> </a></strong></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#nagy anchor"><br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial"><strong><a href="#Rick_anchor">John W. Rick<br> </a></strong></font><br> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#riegel anchor" target="_self"><b>Jeffrey Riegel</b></a><b><a href="#nagy anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#rooney anchor">Dawn Rooney</a><a href="#russell_anchor" target="_self"><br> <br> James Russell<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#sagona_anchor" target="_self">Antonio Sagona</a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#nagy anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#sandweiss anchor" target="_self">Daniel H. Sandweiss</a><a href="#nagy anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#schaus anchor" target="_self">Gerald Schaus<br> <br> </a><a href="#santoro anchor">Calogero M. Santoro</a><a href="#nagy anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#saturno_anchor" target="_self">William Saturno</a></b></font><font size="-1" color="maroon" face="Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif"><strong><a href="#saturno_anchor" target="_self"><br> <br> </a></strong></font></div> </td> <td valign="top" width="25%"> <div align="left"> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#seneviratne anchor" target="_self">Sudharshan Seneviratne<br> <br> </a><a href="#sheng anchor" target="_self">Angela Sheng</a><a href="#seneviratne anchor"><br> </a><a href="#seneviratne anchor"><br> </a><a href="#soltes anchor">Ori Z. Soltes</a><a href="#seneviratne anchor"><br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#stieglitz anchor" target="_self">Robert R. Stieglitz<br> </a></font></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#Summers_anchor" target="_self"><br> Geoffrey Summers<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial"><strong><a href="#Sutter_anchor">Richard C. Sutter<br> </a></strong></font><br> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#thorp anchor">Robert Thorp</a><a href="#seneviratne anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#vantillberg anchor">Jo Anne VanTilburg</a><a href="#white anchor"><br> </a></b></font><br> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#white anchor">Donald White<br> <br> </a></b></font><font size="-1"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#JD_White_anchor">Mattanyah Zohar</a></font> </b></font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b><a href="#seneviratne anchor"><br> <br> </a><a href="#JD_White_anchor" target="_self">J. Daniel White<br> </a></b></font></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p><a id="baker_anchor" name="baker_anchor"></a><br> <img src="images/baker.gif" alt="Donald Baker" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial"><strong>Donald Baker</strong></font><font size="2" face="Arial"> is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Korean Research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he teaches Korean civilization and language in the Department of Asian Studies. He received his PhD in Korean history from the University of Washington and has taught Korean, Japanese and Chinese history at several universities in the United States. He is the author of<em> Korean Spirituality</em>, an editor of <em>Sources of Korean Tradition</em>, and a major contributor to <em>Korean Religions in Practice</em>. He has published widely on Korean history, particularly the history of religion, philosophy and traditional science, and is recognized worldwide as an authority on the cultural history of Korea. He has lived off and on in Korea since 1971.</font></p> <p><font size="2"><a name="barletta anchor"></a></font></p> <p><img src="images/barletta.jpg" alt="Barletta" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Barbara A. Barletta</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is Professor of Art History at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses on ancient art. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and has excavated in Murlo, Italy and Isthmia, Greece. She has received many grants and awards, including the prestigious Rome Prize/Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies. Her many publications include entries on Sicilian archaeology and the National Archaeological Museum in Siracusa in the <i>Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology</i>. Professor Barletta s research focuses on the Greeks of southern Italy and Sicily. She is currently working on a publication of the architectural finds from Morgantina. Professor Barletta has led seven tours to Sicily and Southern Italy for Archaeological Tours. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <div align="left"> <div align="left"> <p><a id="barnes_anchor" name="barnes_anchor"></a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Gina Barnes</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> received her PhD in the area of Japanese state formation from the University of Michigan. She taught East Asian archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge until 1996, when she took up the post of Professor of Japanese Studies at Durham University, from which she has recently retired as Professor Emeritus. Her research connections are now primarily with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she is Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Japan Research Centre. Her publications include: Protohistoric Yamato: Archaeology of the First Japanese State; The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: Archaeology of China, Korea, and Japan; State Formation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives; and State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-Century Elite. Professor Barnes has lived and worked in Japan doing fieldwork and research in the Nara and Kyoto region for extended periods of time since 1965. Her knowledge of Japanese history and enthusiasm for teaching make her an excellent lecturer for our unique archaeological tours. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top<br> <a name="bell anchor"></a></a></font></p> </div> </div> <p><img src="images/bell.jpg" alt="Bell" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Lanny Bell </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">received his Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught Egyptology and was curatorial assistant at the University Museum for 12 years. During that time he was also Field Director of the University's Theban Tomb Project in Luxor. In 1977 Professor Bell began to teach at the University of Chicago and became Field Director of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute. For the next 12 years he spent nine months a year at Chicago House in Luxor. The activities of the expeditions under his direction have ranged from epigraphy to excavation and conservation. Since his early retirement, Professor Bell has been teaching at Brown and Columbia Universities. An expert on the Luxor area, his publications include articles on divine kingship and temple and society in Ancient Egypt, as well as a ground breaking chapter on Luxor Temple in <i>Temples of Ancient Egypt</i> published by Cornell University Press. Professor Bell has also been a consultant for <i>National Geographic magazine</i> and has appeared in its documentary, <i>&quot;Egypt: Quest for Eternity,&quot;</i> as well as A&amp;E's presentation,<i> &quot;Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts.&quot;</i> Professor Bell is a very popular lecturer and has twice been appointed to endowed lectureships of the Archaeological Institute of America. He has led numerous tours to Egypt for Archaeological Tours. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top<br> <a id="Benjamin_anchor" name="Benjamin_anchor"></a></a></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor"><br> </a></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Craig G.R. Benjamin</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where he teaches courses in ancient Central and East Asian history, and on the Silk Roads. Professor Benjamin received his PhD from Macquarie University in Sydney, where he studied nomadic confederations of ancient Central Asia and their impact upon the Chinese Han dynasty and Greco-Bactria. An experienced lecturer, Professor Benjamin is the author of numerous published articles, chapters and books, and is editor of several volumes in the Brepols Silk Roads Studies series. His most recent book (published by Brepols in 2007) is The Yuezhi: Origin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria. He is currently under contract to co-author three new world history textbooks for McGraw-Hill and Facts on File, including the first ever &quot;Big History&quot; textbook. Professor Benjamin is a dynamic lecturer who specializes in placing local and regional events and material cultures into the broader context of inner Eurasian history. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font><font size="2"><br> </font><a name="bianchi anchor"></a><br> </p> <p><img src="images/bianchi.jpg" alt="Bianchi" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Robert Bianchi </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">received his Ph.D. in Egyptian, Greek and Roman Art from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and served as a curator for 15 years in the Department of Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Middle Eastern Art at The Brooklyn Museum. He has received numerous academic awards during his career including a J. Clawson Mills Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Bert H. Hill Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as well as a Fulbright Fellowship at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Bianchi has mounted international loan exhibitions of ancient and modern art in America, Europe, the Caribbean and Japan and has served as an advisor for the Learning Channel's cable TV series, <i>Archaeology</i>. Dr. Bianchi is a popular lecturer and has led tours for Archaeological Tours to Greece, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, and the Balkans for more than 20 years. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top<br> </a></font></p> <p><a id="blomster_anchor" name="blomster_anchor"></a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Jeffrey Blomster</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University, where he teaches Mesoamerican anthropology, specializing in social complexity, interregional interaction and approaches to style, ritual and ideology. After receiving his PhD at Yale University, he taught for four years at Brandeis University. Dr. Blomster's research interests lie primarily in Mesoamerica, where he has focused on Mixtec, Zapotec and Olmec cultures. A recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships, he has conducted excavation and laboratory research in the Nochixtlán Valley of Oaxaca since 1992. In addition to Mexico, he has also performed fieldwork throughout the United States, from the Four Corners region of the Southwest to eastern Pennsylvania. Professor Blomster has published extensively and has just released his first book, Etlatongo: Social Complexity, Interaction and Village Life in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. He is a an excellent teacher and has led many tours to Oaxaca and the Olmec area. Dr. Blomster led Archaeological Tours's Maya Kingdoms tour in 2005. </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <p><img src="images/bonfante2.gif" alt="Bonfante" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><a name="bonfante anchor"></a><br> <font size="3" color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Larissa Bonfante</b></font><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is Professor of Classics at New York University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and has excavated in Italy with Massimo Pallottino. Professor Bonfante has conducted research on the Etruscans at the American Academy in Rome. She is a Foreign Member of the Instituto di Studi Etruschi, the German Archaeological Institute, and is on the Editorial Board of Etruscan Studies. She has published many articles and several books, including <i>Etruscan Life and Afterlife</i>, (coedited <i>The World of Roman Dress</i>, and edited <i>Nudity as a Costume in Ancient Art</i>. Her books The Etruscan Language, with her father Giuliano Bonfante, and Etruscan Dress will soon be reissued. This is Professor Bonfante s sixth tour of Etruscan Italy for Archaeological Tours. Learn more about the Etruscans at <font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/ancientstudies" target="_blank">www.nyu.edu/fas/center/ancientstudies</a></font>. Then click: Institute of Etruscan Studies  </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <p><a name="cooler anchor"></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"><img src="images/cooler.jpg" alt="Cooler" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Richard Cooler</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University. He has lived, lectured, and conducted research in Thailand, Burma and Malaysia for many years. An accomplished lecturer, he received a Fulbright to develop a curriculum in Southeast Asian art and archaeology while teaching at the University of Sains, Malaysia. Professor Cooler recently published his book, <i>The Magic Pond: The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma</i>. He has been leading tours to Southeast Asia for Archaeological Tours for over 15 years.Read more about Professor Cooler's work on the following sites: <font color="#880000"><u>www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/Burma Art_TOC.htm</u></font></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><font color="#880000"><u><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">www.niu.edu/cseas/outreach/SacredArcht.htm</font></u></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <div align="left"> <div align="left"> <p><a name="Cornell_anchor"></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"><img src="images/cornell.jpg" alt="Cornell" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Gail Cornell</b></font><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is an architectural historian. She holds a Master of Design Studies in architectural history and theory from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and a BA in art from Thomas More College. Of particular interest to her is the impact of Greek and Roman architectural design and construction methods on the history of Western architecture from the Romanesque to the Renaissance. Ms. Cornell has authored papers on the leadership position Prague took in the modern movement after World War I. She is a member of the American Society of Architectural Historians, the American Institute of Architects, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Municipal Art Society of New York City. Ms. Cornell has led study tours throughout Europe for the past ten years.  </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> </div> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0;"><a name="dever anchor"></a></p> <p><img src="images/dever.jpg" alt="Dever" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>William G. Dever,</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Arizona, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His career began at the Nelson Gluck School of Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, and he later became the Director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. Dr. Dever has taught at Hebrew University, the School of Oriental Studies, Brandeis University and the University of Michigan, and has directed several excavations in Israel and Cyprus. He has published numerous books and articles, served on the editorial boards of <i>&quot;The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research&quot;</i> and <i>&quot;The Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology,&quot;</i> and is a Trustee of ASOR. He has led five tours to Syria and Jordan for Archaeological Tours. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <div align="left"> <div align="left"> <p><a id="Fentress_anchor" name="Fentress_anchor"></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Elizabeth Fentress</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, where she teaches courses in Roman North Africa. Professor Fentress received her PhD in Roman Archaeology from Oxford University and has served as Mellon Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies and codirector of the Summer Program in Archaeology at the American Academy in Rome. Her research interests focus on Roman archaeology, particularly that of North Africa, where she directed excavations in Tunisia, Algeria and at Volubilis in Morocco. She is currently the director of the excavations at Villa Magna in Italy. Professor Fentress's recent work has focused on the earliest villas in Italy and their North African influences. She is a popular lecturer and has written or coauthored nine books as well as articles on the Berbers and the Arabization of Roman building techniques. Professor Fentress traveled in Libya many years ago and is enthusiastic about returning with Archaeological Tours.<br> <br> <a name="foss anchor"></a></font></p> </div> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0;"><br> <img src="images/foss.jpg" alt="Foss" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Pedar W. Foss</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he teaches courses in archaeology, history, ancient art and classical languages. Since 1987 he has worked on archaeological projects in Tunisia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. Professor Foss was co-field Director for the Trinity University Carthage excavations on the Odeion Hill for several years and is currently Director of the regional survey for the Hacimusalar Project in southwestern Turkey. He served as Assistant Editor of the <i>Journal of Roman Archaeology</i> for four years, and is author of several articles on Roman housing, cooking and social relations, and co-editor of a forthcoming new volume on Pompeii. Professor Foss has, for the last ten years, maintained &quot;Romarch,&quot; an international e-mail discussion group for scholars of Roman art and archaeology. He is a popular teacher and lectures frequently for the AIA and other organizations on his work in Tunisia and Turkey as well as his most recent project, the Collaboratory for Geographic Information Systems and Mediterranean Archaeology (http://cgma.depauw.edu). He is also a fascinating lecturer on his special interest: cooking and eating in the Roman Empire. Professor Foss has led four tours to Tunisia for Archaeological Tours. Read more about Professor Foss's research at http://homepage.mac.com/pfoss/index.html   <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top<br> </a><a name="fritz anchor"></a></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"><img src="images/fritz.jpg" alt="Fritz" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>John M. Fritz</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is also a Research Associate at the National Museum of History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Professor Fritz has carried out research in southern India since 1981, principally at the ruined city of Vijayanagara, near Hampi. He was Co-curator of an exhibition, <i>&quot;Vijayanagara: Where Kings and Gods Meet,&quot;</i> which was shown throughout Europe as well as at the Natural History Museum in New York. His work also includes the documentation of a Mughal garden that was part of the Taj Mahal complex at Agra and extensive publications on Vijayanagara as well as other Indian sites. Professor Fritz has led several tours to India for Archaeological Tours. Read more about Vijayanagara at <font color="#990000"><u>http://www.vijayanagara.org</u></font> or <font color="#990000"><a href="http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Asia/vrp/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Asia/vrp/index.shtml </a></font></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0;"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <p><a name="greene anchor"></a></p> <p><img src="images/greene.jpg" alt="Greene" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Joseph A. Greene</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">, Assistant Director of the Semitic Museum of Harvard University, received his Ph.D. in Archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He completed eight seasons of fieldwork in Carthage, directing the Carthage Survey from 1980 to 1983. Dr. Greene has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in Jordan, a Fulbright Fellow in Cyprus and has directed excavations and surveys in both countries. During 1987-88 he directed the Cultural Resource Management Project in Jordan and presently serves as a consultant to the Petra National Trust. He has served as lecturer for five tours to Syria and Jordan for Archaeological Tours. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <p><a name="harl anchor"></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"><img src="images/harl.gif" alt="Harl" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>Kenneth W. Harl,</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial"> Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University, received his B.A. from Trinity College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He has published on the history and coinage of the Roman world with an emphasis on the Greek cities of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). A distinguished scholar, he has received fellowships in Germany and Turkey, sat on editorial boards and directed the graduate seminar of the American Numismatic Society. Professor Harl regularly travels in Turkey, where he is publishing the coins from the excavations at Gordion and Metropolis. He has won numerous teaching awards at Tulane, and the national David Cherry Teaching Award granted by Baylor University. He has led excursions of Tulane students to Turkey. He has also produced six courses in video and DVD with the Teaching Company, and he has been interviewed for specials by the BBC and History Channel. </font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <div align="left"> <div align="left"> <p><a name="hillis anchor"></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"><img src="images/ghillis.gif" alt="Hillis" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Gregory Hillis</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and is currently Lecturer in Tibetan and Sanskrit in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on Buddhism and Tibetan and Sanskrit literature. Dr. Hillis's research focuses in particular on Tibetan history, literature, art and architecture. He has been the academic director of the highly acclaimed University of Virginia Summer Tibetan Language Institute for the last two years, and is the Project Manager for the Bonpo Textual Project at Rice University, an ambitious digital initiative to archive and catalog the scriptures of Bon, Tibet's indigenous religion. Dr. Hillis has served as consultant for the <i>National Geographic</i>, curated an exhibition on the Tibetan Book of the Dead at the University of Virginia, and has published numerous articles, notably a literary study of the symbolic figure of the mythic bird Garuda in ancient Tibetan literature. His forthcoming book will examine the use of rhetoric in &quot;Great Perfection&quot; (Dzokchen) literature. Dr. Hillis spent more than four years doing extensive research in India and Nepal among Tibetan communities in exile. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top<br> <br> </a></font><a name="Henderson anchor"></a></p> </div> </div> <p><img src="images/henderson.gif" alt="Henderson" height="101" width="101" align="left" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>John Henderson </b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">is Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University, where he has taught anthropology and archaeology since 1971 and has served as Director of the Archaeology Program since 1990. Dr. Henderson's 25 seasons of excavation experience have been mainly in Mexico and Central America, but he has also dug in the United States, Peru, Turkey, and Cyprus and has designed the archaeology section of the new Museum of Anthropology and History in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. His current research focuses on the eastern frontier of the Maya in Honduras, where he has directed a field research project in the lower Ulua river valley since 1979. His most recent excavations are uncovering one of the earliest pottery-making villages in Mesoamerica along with evidence that shortly thereafter the area was part of Mesoamerica's first civilization, the Olmec. Dr. Henderson's latest book, <i>The World of the Ancient Maya</i>, is a popular introduction to ancient Maya civilization. He is an excellent lecturer who has led many tours to Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Mexico for Archaeological Tours. <a href="#sch top anchor">Back to top</a></font></p> <p><a name="kawami anchor"></a><br> <img src="images/kawami.gif" alt="Kawami" height="101" width="101" align="right" border="0"><font size="3" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Trudy S. Kawami</b></font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">, Director of Research for the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, received her Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University, where she specialized in the art of ancient Western Asia. Dr. Kawami is also an Adjunct Lectur