Interdisciplinary academic program
The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW) is an interdisciplinary program for research and teaching of
archaeology ,
[1] particularly archaeology and art of the ancient
Mediterranean (
Greece and
Rome ),
Egypt ,
Anatolia , and the
Near East , based in the
Penn Museum of the
University of Pennsylvania .
History
Doctoral work in
Mediterranean and
Near Eastern Archaeology has been a feature of the
University of Pennsylvania since 1898, largely in response to the excavations undertaken by the
Penn Museum . Nearly 200 dissertations in Old World Archaeology and Art have been produced at Penn in the course of the last century.
The eminent archaeologist
Rodney Young , the director of the Penn Museum's excavations at Gordion
[2] that uncovered the royal tomb of
King Midas , strengthened the graduate program during the 1960s and 1970s.
Core faculty
The current Chair of the Program is
Thomas F. Tartaron . Other notable faculty include
Philip P. Betancourt ,
Lothar Haselberger ,
Holly Pittman , and
C. Brian Rose .
Current fieldwork
Notable alumni
The AAMW program and its predecessors have graduated
[3] a number of prominent archaeologists, including:
George Bass (PhD., 1964), professor emeritus at
Texas A&M University and an early practitioner of
underwater archaeology
Crawford "Greenie" Greenewalt Jr. (PhD., 1966), past director of the excavations at
Sardis and professor at the
University of California, Berkeley
Philip Betancourt (PhD., 1970), Director of the
Institute for Aegean Prehistory and professor at
Temple University
G. Kenneth Sams (PhD., 1971), past director of the
Gordion excavations and professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeremy Rutter (PhD., 1974), ceramics specialist and professor at
Dartmouth College
Zahi Hawass (PhD., 1987), past
Minister of Antiquities of
Egypt
Jodi Magness (PhD., 1989), co-director of the excavations in the late Roman fort at
Yotvata , Israel and professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
See also
References
^ Fieldnotes: Digital Resources . Archaeological Institute of America, retrieved 18 Oct 2012
[1]
^ From Athens to Gordion: The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young, Held at the University Museum, the Third of May, 1975 ,
[2]
^ Dissertations related to Mediterranean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (since 1898) . the University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 18 Oct 2012
[3]
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