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Our study tours are led by scholars who have been carefully selected for their scholarly excellence as well as their ability to communicate and their willingness to share the joy of discovery. They will be with you every step of the way, enhancing your experience with their insights and informal presentations.
Gina Barnes 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. Back to top
Craig G.R. Benjamin 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 "Big History" 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. Back to top
Jeffrey Blomster 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. Back to top
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Cathleen Cummings is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses on all areas of Asian art. She is currently the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in South Asian Art and Architecture at Wellesley College. She received her PhD in art history from Ohio State University, specializing in the art of South Asia, including Islamic and Himalayan Buddhist art. Professor Cummings is a specialist in Hindu temple architecture and Indian miniature painting and is currently editing a volume for Cambridge University Press on the architecture of Hinduism, part of its Encyclopedia of Religious Architecture of the World series. She is also writing a volume on South Asian art to be published as part of their Scarecrow Press series, Historical Dictionaries of Art and Literature. Professor Cummings has led several student tours to Southern India and is very enthusiastic about lecturing for her first Archaeological Tour. Back to top
Elizabeth Fentress 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.
An art historian specializing in Southeast Asia, Dawn Rooney is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical and the Royal Asiatic Societies in London and an advisor to the Society for Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Dr. Rooney, who has lived in Thailand for the past three decades, has participated in archaeological surveys and excavations in Thailand and is the author of eight books on the culture of the region. She has written a definitive guide to Angkor and, most recently, a book on Thai Buddhist art. She was awarded a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy in 2002. Dr. Rooney lectures extensively in Europe, the United States, and Asia and has served as Guest Lecturer on tours in Southeast Asia for several American museums. Back to Top
Calogero M. Santoro is Professor of Archaeology at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Arica, Chile and editor of Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena published by the same university. He received his MA in archaeology at Cornell University and his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught courses on South American Prehistory, Archaeology, as well as Peoples and Cultures of World Prehistory and has done archaeological research along the dry valleys, the Pacific coast, and the highland of northern Chile for over 25 years. Professor Santoro has directed excavations focused on late farming societies related to the Inka state and early highland hunter and gatherers at Lluta and Azapa Valleys near Arica. He also participated in field work in the Orongo Ceremonial Center, Easter Island in 1974, under the leadership of William Mulloy. His work, which is supported by grants and fellowships from national and international institutions and foundations, has been published in various books and journals. Back to Top
Gerald Schaus is Professor of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Wilfred Laurier University, Canada, where he began teaching in 1978. He has a BA and MA from Dalhousie University in Halifax, and a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation on the Archaic pottery from Cyrene, Libya. He spent two years at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a student, and another year as the Whitehead Visiting Research Professor (1986-1987). Professor Schaus has excavated at Cyrene in Libya, as well as at various sites in Italy and Greece, and is currently working on the publication of seven years of excavation in the Sanctuary of Athena at Stymphalos in Arkadia, Greece. Besides the study of Greek pottery, and Archaic Greek history, he has an avid interest in Greek and Roman sports. Professor Schaus is presently the President of the Canadian Archaeological Institute in Athens. Back to Top
Richard C. Sutter is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, an adjunct Professor of Archaeology at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Arica, Chile, and an assistant editor of Dental Anthropology. He received his MA in anthropology at the University of Buffalo and PhD at the University of Missouri. He is a bioarchaeologist who teaches courses on Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Andean Archaeology, and Mortuary Archaeology. He has worked in Peru and Chile for over 15 years. His work, funded by a number of institutions and foundations, has included both the excavation and analysis of human skeletal and mummified remains from numerous locations and prehistoric periods including the early maritime Chinchorro culture of southern Peru and northern Chile, the late pre-Hispanic agropastoral Chiribaya of southern Peru, and human sacrificial victims from the capital site of the mixed economy Moche of the north coast of Peru. He also participated in the analysis of human remains from the earliest preceramic site excavated to date in the Cuzco Valley. His work which is supported by grants and fellowships from many institutions and foundations, has been published in numerous archaeological and biological journals and edited volumes. Back to Top
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Donald Baker 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 Korean Spirituality, an editor of Sources of Korean Tradition, and a major contributor to Korean Religions in Practice. 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.
Barbara A. Barletta 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 Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. 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. 
Lanny Bell 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 Temples of Ancient Egypt published by Cornell University Press. Professor Bell has also been a consultant for National Geographic magazine and has appeared in its documentary, "Egypt: Quest for Eternity," as well as A&E's presentation, "Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts." 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. 
Robert Bianchi 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, Archaeology. 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. 
Richard Cooler 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, The Magic Pond: The Karen Bronze Drums of Burma. 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: www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/Burma Art_TOC.htm
Gail Cornell 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. 
William G. Dever, 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 "The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research" and "The Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology," and is a Trustee of ASOR. He has led five tours to Syria and Jordan for Archaeological Tours. 
Pedar W. Foss 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 Journal of Roman Archaeology 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 "Romarch," 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 
John M. Fritz 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, "Vijayanagara: Where Kings and Gods Meet," 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 http://www.vijayanagara.org or 
Joseph A. Greene, 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. 
Kenneth W. Harl, 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. 
Gregory Hillis, 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 National Geographic, 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 "Great Perfection" (Dzokchen) literature. Dr. Hillis spent more than four years doing extensive research in India and Nepal among Tibetan communities in exile. 
John Henderson 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, The World of the Ancient Maya, 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. 
Trudy S. Kawami, 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 Lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she is currently teaching a course on the art of the ancient Near East. She has carried out research in Turkey, Iran and Israel, and in major European and American museums. Dr. Kawami has published numerous articles and is the author of Monumental Art of the Parthian Period in Iran (Leiden, 1987) and Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (New York, 1992). She is editor of and contributor to Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (New York, 1997). Dr. Kawami is an exciting lecturer frequently called upon to speak on subjects related to the Silk Road and East Asian art and architecture. Her special interest is the cultures of Iran and Central Asia that met and mingled along the Silk Road. 
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Associate Professor in Anthropology, teaches archaeology and ancient technology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Born and raised in India, he completed his BA in Anthropology and MA and Ph.D. in South Asian Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. He speaks several South Asian languages and is fluent in Urdu, the major language of Pakistan. Dr. Kenoyer has worked in Pakistan and India for the past 23, years with a focus on the Indus Valley Civilization. His special interest in ancient technologies and crafts has led him to study a broad range of cultural periods in South Asia as well as other regions of the world. Dr. Kenoyer has excavated at Mohenjo-daro and since 1986, he has been the CoDirector and Field Director of the Harappa Archaeological Research Project, a long-term study of urban development in the Indus Valley. He is also Guest Curator at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, where he curated an exhibition on the "Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization," which toured the United States in 1998. Dr. Kenoyer is a very popular lecturer and has led three tours to Pakistan and India for Archaeological Tours. To learn more about Harappa go to www.harappa.com. 
Roy Larick is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has worked in the Périgord region of southwest France for more than 10 years as Associate of the Direction des Antiquités Préhistoriques d'Aquitaine and has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. In France, Dr. Larick's research has focused on the role of artists and other specialized craftspeople during the European Upper Paleolithic period. He has carried out research among contemporary herding and hunting societies of East Africa related to arts and crafts. Dr. Larick is currently exploring early sites in East Asia for evidence of the first human inhabitants outside Africa. He has led our Caves and Castles tours for the last 10 years, as well as two tours of prehistoric Brittany. 
Trevor Marchand received his degree in Architecture from McGill University and his Ph.D. at The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he is currently Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. With a specialization in indigenous architectures, he spent the spring of 2001 in Djenné, Mali, and 1996/97 in Sana'a, Yemen, working with traditional builders. Dr. Marchand has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Canadian CIDA Award for his fieldwork in West Africa and study of earthen architecture at the prestigious CRATerre Institute in France. He has also worked as an architect in India and has traveled extensively in West Africa, studying indigenous building practices. Dr. Marchand has lectured at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria on Islamic secular and nonsecular architecture in Yemen, Mali and Nigeria. His book Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen was recently published. Fluent in French and Arabic, Dr. Marchand's knowledge and enthusiasm have made him a popular lecturer for Archaeological Tours' Mali, Yemen, Oman and Central Asia tours. 
Ronald Messier received his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and is Professor of Middle East History and Historical Archaeology, as well as Director of the Honors Program at Middle Tennessee State University. He is also Adjunct Professor of History and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses entitled The Islamic World, The Crusades and The Muslim Response and Islam. A specialist on the Islamic Middle Ages, Professor Messier’s research focuses on Islam, North Africa, architecture and archaeology. He has directed an ongoing excavation at Sijilmassa for six seasons, mapping the ancient city and studying its contacts with Timbuktu and other cities in West Africa. In addition to his many articles, he has co-edited Jihad and Its Times and has just completed a book on the Almoravid dynasty of Morocco and Muslim Spain. Professor Messier has won several teaching awards, including Tennessee Professor of the Year. He has served as lecturer for five study tours to Morocco. Ronald Messier's web site 
James Millward is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service and the History Department at Georgetown University, where he teaches Chinese, Central Asian and World History. Professor Millward received his B.A. at Harvard University in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, his M.A. at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in Far Eastern Studies, and his Ph.D. at Stanford University in History. His numerous books and articles on Xinjiang, China, and the Uighur Muslims include the forthcoming A History of Xinjiang: Crossroads of Culture on the Silk Road. As a recipient of many honors and fellowships, Professor Millward has lived and studied in China, Japan and Taiwan, and speaks Chinese, Uighur and other Asian languages. He is a popular speaker on China at various venues including the Smithsonian Institution and the Textile Museum, and he recently briefed Congress and Washington think tanks on the Xinjiang region. A frequenter of China and the Silk Road, Professor Millward has crossed the Taklamakan Desert by jeep, camped with Kazakhs in the Heavenly Mountains, and played Uighur lutes in the bazaars of Kashgar. His knowledge of the region and its people makes him an excellent lecturer for our Silk Road tour. 
George Michell trained originally as an architect in Melbourne, Australia. He then went on to study Indian archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and continues to reside in London. Dr. Michell has headed various survey projects of historical monuments in India, notably Vijayanagara in southern India. Among his many publications are: The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India, Vol. One: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain; Royal Palaces of India; Blue Guide Southern India, and, most recently, Hindu Art and Architecture. Dr. Michell has enjoyed great popularity as a lecturer. He has led several tours to southern, northern India and Rajasthan as well as providing background lectures for Archaeological Tours groups traveling in India. Read more about Vijayanagara at http://www.vijayanagara.org. 
Blaise Nagy is a Full Professor in the Classics Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. For many years, Professor Nagy served as the College's Director of Study Abroad; he continues to organize short-term trips for his students to Greece and Rome. He has traveled widely in Italy and Greece and studied the topography of Rome and Southern Italy under an NEH grant. Professor Nagy is the author of numerous studies on Greek and Roman history and has lectured extensively on topics like the Parthenon Frieze and the Greeks in the West. His latest book, A Thucydides Reader, was published by Focus Press July of 2005. At Holy Cross, he teaches primarily Greek History, Roman History, and advanced courses in Greek and Roman authors. Professor Nagy has enjoyed great success as the lecturer on several Sicily & Southern Italy tours for Archaeological Tours. For more information about A Thucydides Reader 
Richard J. Pearson is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. Although his area of specialization is prehistory and the formation of complex societies in Japan and East Asia, he is currently working on the archaeology of the Ryukyu Kingdom (Okinawa) and the ancient Chinese city of Quanzhou (Zayton) described by Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta. Dr. Pearson has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim and Japan Foundations, has been Visiting Professor at Keio, Kyoto and Yale Universities, and was Guest Curator for two exhibitions of Japanese archaeology at the Japan Society/IBM Gallery in New York, and the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. His most recent book, Ancient Japan, was published by the Sackler Gallery and George Braziller. Dr. Pearson, a popular lecturer, held a special lectureship in Japanese archaeology for the Archaeological Institute of America, supported by the Japan Foundation. His interest in both the ancient and medieval periods of Japanese history and his enthusiasm for teaching makes him an excellent lecturer for our unique tour. 
Clemens Reichel is Assistant Professor for Mesopotamian Archaeologist at the University of Toronto. Following undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and London (U.K.) he studied at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2001 and worked as a Research Associate until 2008. He is the director of the Diyala Project, publishing on-line over 15,000 objects from the Oriental Institute's Diyala Excavations (Iraq) during the 1930's. Reichel has traveled and excavated extensively in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Since 2005 he has been co-director of the excavations at Hamoukar (Syria), a joint project by the Oriental Institute and the Syria Department of Antiquities. In addition to his recent academic appointment to the University of Toronto he now is Curator for the Ancient Near East at the Royal Ontario Museum. 
Jeffrey Riegel is Professor of Classical Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Riegel teaches courses in Chinese Thought, Culture, Religion and Language, and he is coeditor of the Abstracts of Chinese Archaeology. Fluent in Chinese, he has served as consultant on archaeology and the culture of west China for the National Geographic Society and was part of the first National Geographic expedition to the western deserts of the People’s Republic. Professor Riegel has written books and articles on Chinese archaeology and philosophy, and is currently preparing a manuscript on the Chinese historical sources for Burma and Vietnam. He has traveled extensively in South and Southeast Asia has led tours throughout Southeast Asia and China for Archaeological Tours for the past ten years. 
James Russell is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Department of Classics. He completed his MA at the University of Edinburgh and his PhD at the University of Chicago. Professor Russell has taught a broad range of courses, including classical languages and literature and ancient history. His area of specialization is Roman art and archaeology of the Roman provinces, especially in Britain, Asia Minor, and Syria-Palestine. He has excavated Roman military sites in Wales and his native Scotland. Most recently, Professor Russell’s interests have concentrated on the eastern part of the Roman Empire. He was the Director of Canadian excavations at the Roman/Byzantine site of Anemurium in Turkey for thirty years and was Codirector of a consortium of colleges and universities working at Capernaum. Professor Russell has received awards and honors too numerous to list. He held two appointments as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and is a past president of the Archaeological Institute of America. Professor Russell is an exciting lecturer who has led many educational tours. He has traveled throughout Algeria and is very enthusiastic about returning with Archaeological Tours. 
Antonio Sagona is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Association, he has published widely on the archaeology of the Near East, especially Anatolia and Caucasus. His books include The Heritage of Eastern Turkey: From Earliest Settlements to Islam (Macmillan, 2006). Professor Sagona is Editor of the international journal Ancient Near Eastern Studies and its monograph series published by Peeters Press (Louvain). His extensive fieldwork in north-eastern Anatolia has focused attention on a region whose cultural achievements had hitherto formed shadowy images behind those of the better-known societies that settled along the Mediterranean fringe and central plateau. For the last ten years he has been Project Director of the Bâyâktepe Hâyâk and Sos Hâyâk excavations in Eastern Turkey. Presently, he is involved in two collaborative field work projects: one, in collaboration with Georgian colleagues, is based at Mtskheta, central Georgia, and aims to investigate the I berian Kingdom of Caucasus and its antecedents. The other is an archaeological and historical survey of the ANZAC Battlefield at Gallipoli (north-west Turkey). While the focus of this project will be the 1915 battlefield, it will record other archaeological sites and material in order to place the modern conflict in its proper cultural and geographical context. He has led numerous Eastern Turkey tours for Archaeological Tours. Professor Sagona's web site: 
Daniel H. Sandweiss is Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine and is also Editor of Andean Past, published by Cornell University. He teaches courses on South American Prehistory, Archaeology, Peoples and Cultures of South America and Paleo–environmental Archaeology. Professor Sandweiss has worked in Latin America for over 20 years, most often on the coast of Peru. He has directed excavations at Túcume, Peru’s largest pyramid center, a project coordinated by Thor Heyerdahl; at Lo Dems, a late pre-Hispanic fishing settlement in the Chincha Valley; and at many early maritime sites. His work, which is supported by grants and fellowships from many institutions and foundations, has been published in numerous books and journals. This is Professor Sandweiss's third tour to Peru for Archaeological Tours. His love of the region and enthusiasm for teaching will enhance our enjoyment of this exciting tour. Read more about Professor Sandweiss at http://www.ume.maine.edu/iceage/Directory/people/Sandweisss.html
Sudharshan Seneviratne is Professor of Archaeology and Chair at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. He received his Ph.D. in Ancient History and Archaeology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Seneviratne has worked extensively at Indian and Sri Lankan sites and has made major contributions towards innovative research and training of the next generation of archaeologists in South Asia. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Cornell University and Carleton College, taught at Bowdoin College and is currently archaeological director of the UNESCO programs at Anuradhapura, the major World Heritage site in Sri Lanka. Dr. Seneviratne is the resource person for visiting students under the U.S.-Sri Lanka Liberal Arts Consortium and for the Study Program conducted by the University of Tulane. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Bibliographic Institute for his outstanding contributions to Archaeology and History, and was inducted as a Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in Sri Lanka. Dr. Seneviratne’s interest in the use of archaeology in building national and ethnic identities will provide us with insights into the history and people of Sri Lanka. 
Angela Sheng is Professor of Chinese Art History at McGill University in Montreal. Professor Sheng studied in Toronto and at the Sorbonne in Paris and received her Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She was Assistant Curator of Asian Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum for 10 years before her husband’s career took them to Japan, where she taught Chinese History and Art History at Keio University and Temple University. During this period Professor Sheng was a member of the Yale-Beijing University–sponsored Silk Road Project, which carried out a survey of archaeological sites in the Turpan area. She is the author of numerous publications dealing with the transfer of technological and artistic ideas between China and Central Asia, and as a leading expert on the history of Chinese textiles, planned the imperial costumes for the film The Last Emperor. Professor Sheng will be an enthusiastic lecturer for her second Archaeological Tours Silk Road tour. 
Ori
Z. Soltes
is Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University and has
also taught in the Classics Department at Johns Hopkins and
Cleveland State Universities. Professor Soltes’s areas of
specialization include Jewish, Christian and Muslim art and
religions, classical philosophy, linguistics and Indo-European
philology and Greek and Roman art. His many academic honors
include an NEH Fellowship in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
at ASOR. Professor Soltes has published over 150 books, articles
and exhibition catalogue essays on a wide range of subjects
including recently published, Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish,
Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source and
Jewish, Christian and Muslim Mysticism: Searching for
Oneness. He is a very popular speaker and has given lecture
series at many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum
and the Smithsonian Institution. Professor Soltes regularly
leads tours throughout the Mediterranean basin. He has led
numerous tours for Archaeological Tours to Spain, Sicily,
mainland Italy and other parts of Europe.
Robert R. Stieglitz is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at Rutgers University. He has excavated in the United States, Greece and Israel, surveyed throughout the Mediterranean world, and is currently excavating on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Professor Stieglitz is the recipient of numerous academic honors and awards, and author of over 100 articles on the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. He has taught at universities in Greece and Israel, and was formerly Curator of the National Maritime Museum, Haifa. Professor Stieglitz has led twelve tours to Greece and Cyprus for Archaeological Tours. Interested in ancient metrology and shipwrecks? "Classical Greek Measures and the Builder's Instruments from the Ma'agan Mikhael Shipwreck", by Robert R. Stieglitz, published in the American Journal of Archaeology 110.2 (April 2006)195-203, is now online at: http://www.ajaonline.org. 
Robert Thorp recently retired as Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Thorp, a specialist in the art and archaeology of early China, has taught courses on Chinese archaeology and architecture, Buddhist art, and Chinese painting. He is a member of the United States team that, together with the Institute of Archaeology, Beijing, is surveying the Anyang region, the location of the Shang capital ca. 1200 BCE. Professor Thorp recently published his book Chinese Art and Culture, with Harry N. Abrams, New York. He was a collaborator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Great Bronze Age of China" exhibit and the American curator of "Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China," a loan exhibition from China. He has worked in China for extended periods and has led numeroustours to China for Archaeological Tours. 
Jo Anne Van Tilburg is a Research Associate of The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Rock Art Archive. She is director of the Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) (
Donald White recently retired as Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had also been Chief Curator of the University Museum Mediterranean Section. He previously taught in the University of Michigan's Art History and Classics departments and was a Research Curator in the Kelsey Museum. Specializing in Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, Professor White received his PhD from Princeton and AB from Harvard and was also an Honorary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Professor White conducted fieldwork in Libya from 1964 until 1981, first excavating the port city of Apollonia and subsequently the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene. As a student he excavated at Morgantina, in central Sicily, and most recently completed the excavation and publication of Bates's Island, a Late Bronze Age islet on the coast of Egypt. Author of over 70 articles and reviews, he has written or coauthored six books. Regarded as an international authority on Egypt's NW coast and Cyrenaica, Professor White is also familiar at firsthand with Tripolitania's ancient cities of Leptis Magna and Sabratha. He recently returned to Libya to investigate the possibilities of renewing research and was met with great enthusiasm by his Libyan colleagues. 
J. Daniel White has been Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for over three decades. He earned his PhD in Indian Religions, Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania. His present projects include editing a five-volume encyclopedia on the Middle East and South Asia, the translating of several western Indian Sanskrit manuscripts, and a study of one of the most significant royal temples in Rajasthan. Professor White has published scholarly papers and books on topics as diverse as South Asian medicine, religion, disease, advertising, politics and architecture. He has also been an adviser on India and South Asian affairs to the State Department and multinational corporations. Professor White has visited India numerous times over the years for research, lecturing and consulting. He has led several study tours to India and Nepal for educational institutions. 
Mattanyah Zohar received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, with a specialization in the protohistory and Bronze Age of the Levant, its impact on the ancient Mediterranean cultures and the spread of urbanism. Dr. Zohar is a dynamic and enthusiastic scholar and lecturer. He has been involved in several major excavations and has published extensively on the Near East. Fluent in several languages, he grew up in Turkey, has traveled extensively in the Balkans and the Mediterranean area, and has been leading tours to Turkey, Israel, Macedonia, Greece and Ethiopia, as well as other related areas, for Archaeological Tours since 1985. 