Author Biographies
Dorian Borbonus
Dr. Borbonus completed his studies in 2006 from the Graduate Group in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania.
His dissertation is titled “Textual and Visual Commemoration in Columbarium Tombs of Early Imperial Rome.”
Mark Davison
Historical landscape architect with the National Park Service's Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Boston, Massachusetts through a cooperative agreement with the University of Pennsylvania. Research Associate, Architecture and Allied Arts Department, University of Oregon.
Elisha Ann Dumser
Assistant Professor, Ursuline College, Ohio.
Professor Dumser is a specialist in Roman Art and Architecture. She is currently preparing her doctoral research for publication with Cambridge University Press, and collaborating with the Mapping Alexandria Project at the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrew B. Gallia
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota.
- Bio Page
- http://www.tc.umn.edu/~abgallia
- abgallia@umn.edu
Professor Gallia specializes in Roman cultural memory and has articles published in CQ, JRS, and TAPA. He is in th process of completing his first book, titled Remembering the Republic: Culture, Politics, and History at Rome, AD 68-117
Ömür Harmanşah
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World of Brown University.
- Bio Page
- http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/Home
- Omur_Harmansah@brown.edu
Professor Harmanşah teaches and works on the archaeology of the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia. His research interests are increasingly focused on the intersections of landscape and place, collective memory and spatial practices.
Lothar Haselberger
Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Professor in Roman Architecture, Graduate Group in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Haselberger‘s research interests are focused on the exploration of Greco-Roman Architecture in its practical and theoretical implications, from millimeter-refinements of ancient stone-carving to “macroscopic” aspects of urbanism, from the documentation of ancient construction drawings (focusing on the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey, and the Pantheon in Rome) to analyzing theories of design, visibility, and city building in the writings of Philo of Byzantium, Vitruvius, and others.
Currently, he is specially interested in the modes and media in the ancient transmission of design, the changes and ruptures in that tradition, and the literal application of Vitruvian “design recipes” now tangible in major temples (Didyma temple; Augustus‘ Temple of Mars Ultor; Hadrian‘s Pantheon) and cities (Pergamon; Alexandria).
Eric J. Kondratieff
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Greek and Roman Classics, Temple University
- Bio Page
- http://www.temple.edu/classics/faculty.html
- ekondrat@temple.edu
Professor Kondratieff is currently working on a revision of his dissertation for publication, and on articles exploring the intersection of Augustan coinage as commemorative art and as evidence for other commemorative art. His other (current) research interests include Greek and Roman historiography, epigraphy and economy.
Thomas J. Morton
Assistant Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University
Professor Morton specializes in the architecture and urbanism of the Roman Empire, he has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Carthage, Tunisia, on the island of Jerba in Tunisia, and at Villa Magna, Italy.
Carlos F. Noreña
Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley
- Bio Page
- http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Norena/
- norena@berkeley.edu
Professor Noreña works on the history of the Roman empire, and is currently finishing a book on the figure of the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western empire. Other interests include the topography of Rome, imperial ideology, and comparative empires.
Todd W. Parment
Todd Parment is now a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State
Building on his academic background and love for Italy, he previously served in Rome, Italy. As of June 2009, Todd is posted to Ankara, Turkey.
Guido Petruccioli
Mr. Petruccioli is presently a doctoral student at St. Cross College, St. Giles, Oxford University.
David Gilman Romano
Senior Research Scientist, Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Nicholas L. Stapp
Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
A. G. Thein
Lecturer, School of Classics, University College Dublin
Dr. Thein‘s research focuses on Roman Republican History, especially Sulla‘s dictatorship and proscriptions. He also specializes in the topography of the city of Rome and the Roman Campagna.
Kevin Tracy
Assistant Professor of Classics at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.
Professor Tracy's research centers on ancient philosophy, primarily Hellenistic philosophy.
Günder Varinlioğlu
Dr. Varinlioğlu completed her studies in 2008 from the Graduate Group in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania.
Her dissertation is titled “The Rural Landscape and Built Environment at the End of Antiquity: The Limestone Villages of Southeastern Isauria.”