Degrees:

• PhD  Brown University, Old World Archaeology and Art, 1998
• MA    University of Georgia, Classics, 1994
• AB    Davidson College, Classics, 1992

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Classical archaeology and art (Aegean Bronze age, Greek, Roman), with a special emphasis on the material culture of Greece, Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean
• Ancient religious practice and associated iconography
• Greek sculpture
• Identity in ancient contact zones
• 'Globalization' in the ancient world and postcolonial theory

Courses Taught:

• ArtHist 101: Ancient and Medieval Art and Architecture
• ArtHist 312: Minoan and Mycenaean Art and Archaeology
• ArtHist 313: Greek Art and Archaeology
• ArtHist 316: Roman art and Archaeology
• ArtHist 413: Greek Sculpture
• ArtHist 710: Roman Copies, and the Problem of Originals
• ArtHist 710: The Parthenon and the Athenian Acropolis

Other Relevant Professional Activities:

• Associate Director: Athienou Archaeological Project (Athienou, Cyprus)
• Co-editor, Book Reviews, American Journal of Archaeology
• Editorial board for Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research and Cahier du Centre d'Études Chypriotes
• Norma and Reuben Kershaw Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America (2011-2012)

Selected Publications:

Books/Edited Journal Volume
New Approaches to the Elusive Iron Age Polities of Ancient Cyprus. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 370 (2013), 1-206. [ed. with M. Iacovou]

Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus. ASOR Annual no. 65. (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2011) [ed. with M. K. Toumazou and P. Nick Kardulias]

The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2010).
Main Series no. 24. [ed. with B. Arnold]

Articles
"Shedding Light on the Cypriot Rural Landscape: Investigations of the Athienou Archaeological Project in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, 2011-2013." Journal of Field Archaeology [with M. K.Toumazou et al.]. Forthcoming.

"Myth into Art: Foreign Impulses and Local Responses in Archaic Cypriote Sanctuaries," in A. B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Forthcoming.

"Fitting In: Archaeology and Community in Athienou, Cyprus." Near Eastern Archaeology 76:3 (2013),166-177. [with E. Cova, et al.]

"Local Style and Regional Trends in Cypriote Limestone Sculpture: The Athienou School," in M. K. Toumazou, et al. (eds.), Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2011), 149-162.