Traianos Gagos

Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek, Department of Classical Studies; Archivist of Papyrology, Graduate Library

Scholarly Interests

Greek papyrology and palaeography; social, economic and cultural history of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt and Near East; papyrology and archaeology; computer technology and the study of the ancient world. Co-founder and co-editor, New Texts from Ancient Cultures; Director, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Michigan and central sections; Immediate Past President, American Society of Papyrologists

Degree

Ph.D., University of Durham, England

Selected Publications

• Settling a Dispute: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt
  (co-author, 1994)
• The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXI (co-author, 1995)
• Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (co-editor, 1996)
• Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas (co-editor, 2001)
• Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP); volumes 37,
  38, 39, 40, 41 and 42 (editor, 2000-2006)
• "The Advanced Papyrological Information System: Past, Present, and Future," Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of
  Papyrology (co-author, 2007)
• "List of Vouchers from a Byzantine Provincial Office," Papyri in Memory of P.J.
  Sijpesteijn (co-author, 2007)
• "Beyond the Rock. Petra in the Sixth Century CE in the Light of the Papyri," Crossing Jordan. North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan (co-author, 2007)
• Petra Papyri. Vol. III (co-author, 2007)

E-mail: traianos@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-3290 or 764-9369

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David Potter

Professor of Greek and Latin, Department of Classical Studies

Scholarly Interests

Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek and Latin historiography and epigraphy, Roman public entertainment

Degree

Ph.D., Oxford University

Selected Publications

• Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire (1990)
• Prophets and Emperors: Humans and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (1993)
• Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (1999)
• Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire (co-editor, 1999)
• The Roman Empire at Bay (2000)
• A Companion to the Roman Empire (2006)
• Emperors of Rome (2007)
• articles on textual criticism, Greek and Roman history and epigraphy

E-mail: dsp@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-2249

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Janet Richards

Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies;
Associate Curator for Dynastic Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Project Director, University of Michigan Abydos Middle Cemetery Project, Abydos, Egypt 

Scholarly Interests

Ancient Egyptian and Nubian culture, archaeology, and history; texts and archaeology; mortuary studies; sacred and political landscapes; the archaeology of individuals; the politics of biography; the disciplinary history of Egyptology.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

• "Conceptual landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley," Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (1999)
• Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (co-ed., 2000)
• Order, Legitimacy and Wealth in Ancient States (co-ed., 2000)
• "Text and context in late Old Kingdom Egypt: the archaeology and historiography of Weni the Elder," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002)
• Society and Death in Ancient Egypt: mortuary landscapes of the Middle Kingdom  (2005)
• The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt:  Essays in honor of David B O’Connor  Vols. I and II (co-ed., 2007)

E-mail: jerichar@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-4672

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Carla Sinopoli

Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology; Director, Museum of Anthropology; Curator, Asian Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology 

Scholarly Interests

Complex societies craft specialization, ceramics. Political economy of early states and empires; archaeology and history; material culture -- use, technology, and social meaning, ethnoarchaeology, gender; South Asia.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Selected Publications

• Empires: Comparative Perspectives from Archaeology and History (co-ed., 2001)
• The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650 (2003)
• "Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and historical memory, Vijayanagara as historical memory," Archaeologies of Memory (2003)
• Archaeology of History: South Asia (co-ed., 2004)
• "Wrapped in Beauty: The Koelz Collection of Kashmir Shawls" (co-author, 2005)
• "Regional Survey of Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World methodologies in Old World contexts," Settlement, Subsistence and Social Complexity: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Jeffrey R. Parsons (2006)

E-mail: sinopoli@umich.edu
Telephone: 764-0484

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Paolo Squatriti

Associate Professor of Medieval History, Departments of History and Romance Languages

Scholarly Interests

Late antique and early medieval cultural and environmental history, especially of the western Mediterranean and Italy, land use and landscape change, rural technologies and their impact

Degree

Ph.D., University of Virginia

Selected Publications

• Working with Water in Medieval Europe (ed., 2000)
• "Digging Ditches in Early Medieval Europe," Past and Present (2002)
• Natures Past: The Environment and Human History (ed., 2007)
• The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (ed., 2007)

E-mail: pasqua@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-4897

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Laurie Talalay

Associate Director, Kelsey Museum; Curator, Kelsey Museum; Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Aegean prehistory, gender, neolithic figurines

Degree

Ph.D., Indiana University

Selected Publications

• Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece (1993)
• "A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory" (1994)
• “Archaeological Ms.conceptions: Contemplating Gender and the Greek Neolithic” (2000)
• "Sexual Ambiguity in Early-Middle Cypriot Plank Figures" (co-authored; 2002)
• “What These Ithakas Mean.” Readings in Cavafy (co-edited; 2002)
• "Heady Business: Skulls, Heads, and Decapitation in Neolithic Anatolia and Greece" (2004)
• "The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising" (2004)
• Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline (co-edited; 2005)
• "The Gendered Sea: Iconography, Gender, and Mediterranean Prehistory" (2005)
• “Prehistoric Occupation of Southern Euboea” (co-authored; 2005)
• “A Day’s Journey: Constantinople, December 9, 1919” (co-authored; 2006)
• In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum (co-authored; 2006)

E-mail: talalay@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-0441

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Arthur Verhoogt

Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek, Department of Classical Studies

Scholarly Interests

Greek papyrology; socio-economic, administrative and cultural history of Greek and Roman Egypt; Fayum villages; onomastics

Degree

Ph.D., Leiden

Selected Publications

• Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden, 11. Band, with H.-A. Rupprecht (2002)
• Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers (2005)
• Documents from Berenike Volume II: Texts from the 1999-2001 Seasons (co-authored with Roger Bagnall and Christina Helms, 2005)

E-mail: verhoogt@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-6101

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Terry Wilfong

Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Associate Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt; archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt; social history of ancient Egypt; ancient Egypt in the work of contemporary artists.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity. An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum (1997)
• "Synchronous Menstruation and the 'Place of Women' in Ancient Egypt," Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente (2000)
• Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt (2002)
• "'Friendship and Physical Desire': The discourse of female hoeroticism in fifth century CE Egypt," Among Women: from the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002)
• "Gender and Society in Byzantine Egypt," Egypt in the Byzantine World (2007)

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Norman Yoffee

Professor of Mesopotamian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies; Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology

Scholarly Interests

Assyriology, Mesopotamian culture, languages, history; Near Eastern archaeology; late prehistoric and early historic periods; comparative early civilizations; legal anthropology

Degree

Ph.D., Yale University

Selected Publications

• Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History (Forthcoming, University of Arizona Press, Fall 2006)
• Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research: Negotiating the Past in the Past (Forthcoming, University of Arizona Press, Fall 2007)

E-mail: nyoffee@umich.edu
Telephone: 764-0314

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