The Archaeology Lab and Archaeology at the Lindner Center for Art History

Excavations

The Archaeology Lab is home to the U.Va. archaeological excavations in the classical and Hellenistic city of Morgantina (Sicily, Italy; directed by Prof. M. Bell), which are part of the overall U.S. archaeological program on Morgantina (directed by Prof. Bell and Prof. C. Antonaccio of Duke University), and to the Pompeii Forum project and related field work at the site of Pompeii (Italy; directed by Prof. J. Dobbins).

Other current archaeological projects of Art History faculty include the Berezan publication project sponsored by the Hermitage Museum, the British School at Athens excavations at Kato Phana (Chios, Greece; Prof. T. J. Smith); and the House of Kadmos re-excavation and final publication project (Thebes, Greece; directed by Prof. A. Dakouri-Hild).

Current graduate students:

• Elizabeth Bartlett (PhD, Smith): early red figure Attic vase-painting.
• Jared Benton (PhD, Dobbins): Roman urbanization.
• Katherine Boller (MA, Dobbins): Etruscan and Roman archaeology of the Republican and Imperial periods; Roman history and historiography.
• Kevin Cole (PhD, Dobbins): Reading the walls of Pompeii: forum surroundings, urban development and the meaning of space.
• Robert Coleman (MA, Dobbins): Roman engineering.
• Scott Craver (PhD, Dobbins): Patterns of complexity: an index and analysis of urban property investment at Pompeii.
• Monica De Simone (PhD, Dobbins/Frischer):
• Renee Gondek (PhD, Smith): All the world's a stage: the tragedy of the female body in the Greek visual culture.
• Stephanie Layton (PhD, Smith): Liminality and performance in Etruscan art.
• Ismini Miliaresis (PhD, Dobbins): Fuel consumption in the Roman baths and the effects on the Empire.
• Rosa Motta (PhD, Smith): Material culture through coins, Hellenistic and Roman Dor.
• Eric Poehler (PhD, Dobbins): The organization of Pompeii's system of traffic: an analysis of the evidence and its impact on the infrastructure, economy and urbanism of the ancient city.
• Dylan Rogers (MA, Dobbins): Roman domestic religion.
• Carrie Sulosky (MA, Smith): The eternal feast: banquet scenes on Roman cineraria.
• Dan Weiss (PhD, Dobbins): Cultural exchange and the trade network of the Northwestern Dacian Limes.
• Maria Zachariou (PhD, Smith): The art and cult of Apollo in Classical Greece.

Former graduate students include:

• Larry Ball (Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point).
• William C. Archer (Department of Art, University of Illinois State University).
• Kathleen Lynch (Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati).
• Justin Walsh (Department of Art History, Louisiana State University).
• Elizabeth Hahn (American Numismatic Society).
• Courtney Morano Courtney Morano (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).

Location

McIntire Department of Art
University of Virginia
Lindner Center for Art History, 104
Fayerweather Hall
Rugby Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903