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