Archaeology Seminars

Seminar topics are determined for each semester in consultation with the graduate students. See also, all departmental course offerings.

Fall 2025 Âé¶¹AV Course Offerings

Course Course Title Instructor Class Hours Room
ARCH B501 Greek Vase Painting Lindenlauf, A.  11:40 AM-1:00 PM TTH Old Library 251
ARCH B535 Sensory Worlds, Material Lives: Archaeology and the Senses Price, R. 1:10 PM-4:00 PM W Carpenter Library 15
ARCH B557 The Hellenistic Age: Art in a Multicultural World Colburn, H. 1:10 PM-4:00 PM F Old Library 223
ARCH B602 Âé¶¹AV Intensive Survey Colburn, H. 10:10 AM-11:00 AM MWF Old Library 102
GSEM B625 Dots and Loops: Form and Aesthetics Across Time and Media Dabashi, P., McKee, C. 4:10 PM-6:00 PM T Old Library 102

 Spring 2026 Âé¶¹AV Course Offerings

Course Course Title Instructor Class Hours Room
ARCH B528 The Roman Empire in South West Asia Palermo, R. 1:10 PM-4:00 PM W  
ARCH B554 Money in the Ancient World Colburn, H. 1:10 PM-4:00 PM F  
ARCH B558 Amarna in Context: City, Landscape, Ideology Price, R. 1:10 PM-4:00 PM TH  
ARCH B603 Âé¶¹AV Intensive Survey Palermo, R. 11:10 AM-12:00 PM MW  

List of Âé¶¹AV Seminars and Courses

605: The Concept of "Style"  (Donohue)
607: Architectural Sculpture (Webb)
608: The Interpretation of Programs of Greek Architectural Sculpture  (Donohue)

609: Greek Sanctuaries  (staff)
610: Greek Architecture (Wright)
611: Athenian Topography  (staff)
612: The Acropolis of Athens  (staff)
614: Greek Identity (staff)
615: Mystery Cults (McFadden)
617: The Origins of the Greek Polis  (Wright)
618: Macedonian Archaeology  (staff)
619: Topics in Hellenistic Archaeology  (Webb)
620: Monumental Painting and Mosaics  (staff)
622: Classical Conceptions of the Human Figure  (Donohue)
623: Alexander the Great (Lindenlauf)
624: Issues in Greek Vase Painting (staff)
625: The Historiography of Greek and Roman Art (Donohue)
627: The Idea of the Monument (Donohue)
631: The Early Bronze Age in the Aegean: the Cyclades and the Mainland (Wright)
632: Aegean Prehistory (Wright)
633: Neo- and Post-Palatial Crete (Wright)
635: The Shaft Graves, Thera and Neo-Palatial Crete (Wright)
636: The Mycenaeans (Wright)
637: Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Archaeology (Wright)
638: Archaeology of Assyria (Ataç)
639: Iron Age-Greece (Wright)
641: Case Studies in Mortuary Analysis (Wright)
645: Ethnicity in Near Eastern Archaeology (staff)
647: Methods of Comparative Chronology (staff)
648: Method and Theory in Archaeology (staff)
652: Ancient Egyptian Architecture (Ataç)
653: Style Analysis of Ceramics (Magee)
655: Urartu and Feudalism (staff)
657: Syro-Hittite Sites and Their Art (staff)
658: Nomadism and Urbanism in Syria-Palestine (staff)
659: Problems in Mycenaean Archaeology (Wright)
661: Pergamon and Samothrace (Webb)
664: Problems in Third Millennium Syria-Palestine (staff)
665: The Halaf Period (staff)
667: Column of Trajan (Webb)
669: Ancient Greece & the Near East (Ataç)
677: Iconography (Ataç/Kinney/Hamilton)
680: Problems in the Archaeology of Mesopotamia (staff)
681: Organization and Planning of Near Eastern Cities (staff)
683: The Art of the Assyrians (staff)
692: Achaemenids and Persians (staff)
693: Studies in Greek Pottery (staff)
696: Kingship and Early States (Ataç)
727: Pompeii (Webb)