His research and publications concern landscape archaeology, the settlement dynamics of the Roman conquest of central Italy, Roman provincial archaeology in Lycia (Turkey) and North Africa (Tunisia), Pompeii and the ancient Bay of Naples, and the manuscript tradition of the Younger Pliny's Letters. With Rebecca K. Schindler (director), he helps run the Trasimeno Regional Archaeological Project, centered in Castiglione del Lago, Umbria (Italy).

PhD, Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan (1994); BA, Classics and Chemistry, Gustavus Adolphus College (1988)

Latin at all levels (at the upper levels: Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Phaedrus, Plautus, Apuleius, Sallust, Livy, Silius Italicus, Cicero). Archaeology: Introduction to Mediterranean Archaeology, Troy and Aegean Archaeology, Hellenistic and Roman Art and Archaeology. Advanced Seminars: Pompeii, Ancient North Africa, Ancient Britain, King Arthur, Ancient Central Italy. General Civ. Courses: Greek and Roman Mythology, Ancient Mediterranean World, The Roman Republic, Roman Civilization. First-Year Seminars: Ancient Journeys, Ancient Disasters, The Ethics of Combat; Hubris Begets Tyranny.

• 2029 (est.) The World of Pompeii and the Bay of Naples (edited with Steven J.R. Ellis), Routledge, Oxon.
• 2027 (est.) “Çaltılar Archaeological Project Survey: Regional Exploration and the Intensive Study of Eceler Höyük,” in A.M. Greaves, et al., The Çaltılar Archaeological Project (completed; publication in process).
• 2026 (est.) “The Elmalı Basin: Topography, Paleoenvironment, and Long-term Archaeological Settlement Patterns,” (with Bülent Arıkan [lead author] and Hilal Seren Åžahin) (completed; publication in process).
• 2025 “Changing the Channel: metaphors and methods for studying roads in Ancient Lycia,” in L. Vandeput and S. Mitchell, eds, Routes and Roads in Anatolia from prehistory to Seljuk times, Proceedings of an International Conference held at Ankara University, 20-22 March 2014; BIAA Monograph Series 59.
• 2022 Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius, Routledge, Oxon.
• 2020 “Report on the Excavations of the Gioiella-Vaiano Villa 2016-2019,” (with Rebecca K. Schindler [lead author], Giampiero Bevagna, and Stefano Spiganti), The Journal of Fasti Online. http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2021-493.pdf
• 2016 “Castiglione del Lago, Gioiella site survey 2015: preliminary report,” (with Giampiero Bevagna, Rebecca K. Schindler, and Stefano Spiganti), The Journal of Fasti Online.
• 2014 “Rise and Fall of Castel Rigone,” The Blizzard. The Football Quarterly (14), 122-28.
• 2008 The World of Pompeii (edited with J. J. Dobbins), Routledge, Oxon (corrected paperback edn.; original publ. 2007); authored chapter 3: “Rediscovery and resurrection.”
• 2007 “Classical Archaeology: Building a GIS of the Ancient Mediterranean,” (with Rebecca K. Schindler) in Diana Stuart Sinton and Jenni Lund (eds), Understanding place. GIS and mapping across the curriculum, ESRI Press, 155-66.
• 2006 “Cooking and cuisine,” “Dining rooms,” “The social ritual of dining,” “Oplontis,” “Boscoreale,” and “Boscotrecase” for G. Shipley et al. (eds), The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization.
• 2002 (jointly with R. Schindler): “A first step towards a Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology (CGMA),” Mellon Foundation four-year grant proposal for $197,000.
• 1997 “Watchful Lares: Roman household organization and the rituals of cooking and dining,” in R. Laurence and A. Wallace-Hadrill (edd.) Domestic Space in the Ancient Mediterranean, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement (22), 196-218.

Fieldwork:

• 2014-present Survey Archaeologist and Professor for the Trasimeno Regional Archaeological Project, Castiglione del Lago, Perugia (Italy).
• 2012 GIS technician and survey archaeologist for the Caltılar Archaeological Project (northern Lycia), N. Momigliano, A. Greaves, T. Hodos, B. Aksoy, directors.
• 2006 Consultant for the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Project.
• 1997-2005 The Hacımusalar Project: Excavation and Survey in the Elmalı Plain (northern Lycia), I. Özgen, M.B. Garrison, P. Foss; Director of the field survey (diachronic, intensive and extensive).
• 1998 Troia Excavations (U. Cincinnati, U. Tübingen), M. Korfmann, C.B. Rose; Asst. to American director C.B. Rose.
• 1990-1993 British School at Rome Rieti Survey Project and Excavations, D.J. Mattingly, S. Coccia; Fieldwalker, computer consulstant (’90); co-field director, Madonna Del Passo (’92).
• 1992 American School Spring Excavations at Corinth, C.K. Williams; Supervisor University of Georgia Excavations at Carthage, N.J. Norman; Supervisor.
• 1990-92 Trinity University Excavations at Carthage, Supervisor (‘90); Co-Field Director (’91-92).
• 1989 Michigan Cemetery Project, Carthage, J.H. Humphrey, M.B. Garrison, S. Stevens; Supervisor.
• 1987-88 Kavousi Project Excavations, Crete, W.D. Coulson, L.P. Day, G. Gesell; Supervisor.
• Editing:
• 2008-2011 Book Review Co-editor (with R. Schindler), for the American Journal of Archaeology.
• 1997-98 Assistant Editor, English-language contributions to Studia Troica (8) 1998.
• 1995-98 General Editor, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplements (J.H. Humphrey, chief editor).

• 2023 Edwin L. Minar Jr. Scholarship Award for “exceptional scholarly record,” ÃØÉ«´«Ã½.
• 2004 (w/R. Schindler): “CGMA: Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology,” poster session, AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3 Jan.; awarded First Place for Best Poster.
• 1988-92 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, University of Michigan.

• 2019-2026 Chair, Department of Classical Studies, ÃØÉ«´«Ã½.
• 2009-2013 Dean of Academic Life, ÃØÉ«´«Ã½.
• 1995-2002 Created ROMARCH, the original Internet index for Roman art and archaeology.

• 2025 “Discovering the date of the A.D. 79 eruption in the manuscript tradition,” keynote for: Era d’autunno, Io no, nun mme ne scordo, international conference on the eruption of Vesuvius, Sorrento–Pompeii.
• 2024 “Solving the Mystery of Vesuvius: When Exactly Did It Destroy Pompeii?” 8th Annual Thomas and Anne Sienkewicz Lecture on Roman Archaeology, Monmouth College.
• 2022 “Ashy Tuesday-Wednesday: The date and sequence of the AD 79 Vesuvian eruption.” The Herculaneum Society, Oxford, U.K.
• 2022 “Theta in the Plinian manuscript tradition and the date of the AD 79 Vesuvian eruption.” Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting.
• 2019 “When Did Vesuvius Explode?” Raoul Bertrand Lecture at San Francisco State University.
• 2017 “The Eruption of Vesuvius and the Destruction of Pompeii: Pliny’s Letters as Cultural Artifacts,” Mediterranean Archaeology Research Group seminar, University of Liverpool.
• 2014 "Changing the Channel: Metaphors and Methods for Studying Roads in Ancient Lycia," Pathways of Communication Conference, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (Turkey).
• 2014 "Money, Honey, and Elegy: the Mausoleum of T. Flavius Secundus at Kasserine, Tunisia," lectures at the University of Liverpool and Bristol University.
• 2007 “MAGIS: Mediterranean Archaeology GIS,” lecture and demonstration at eleven U.K. universities: Glasgow, Newcastle, Durham, York, Liverpool, Leicester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Exeter, Southampton, and Oxford.
• 2005 “The Hacımusalar Project Regional Survey: landscape and settlement investigations in the Elmalı Basin,” Third International Symposium on Lycia, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
• 2001 “GPS, GIS and WWW in archaeological survey comparability,” Forum: Crossroads in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
• 1997 “The Roman house as a living museum,” in Private life/private space: understanding the home, 10th Annual Symposium, the Dept.of Architectural History, University of Virginia.
• 1994 “Watchful Lares: Roman household organization and the rituals of cooking and dining,” for The Organization of Domestic Space in the Ancient Mediterranean, conference at the University of Reading, England.

Personal. He has lived, studied, and worked for extended periods in Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey, and England. He is an avid cyclist, a black belt in Goju-ryu Kenpo karate, and a keen follower of football/fútbol/soccer, which he coached and refereed for fourteen years.

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