Below is a listing of courses taught by Joukowsky Institute permanent faculty, arranged by instructor name. Listings of current and past courses, often including websites and syllabi, can also be viewed by year or by course number. The All Courses page shows titles and brief descriptions for the full Archaeology and the Ancient World course catalog, which includes all classes ever taught by Joukowsky Institute or Old World Archaeology and Art faculty, as well as cross-listed courses taught by our colleagues in other departments -- arranged by course number.
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Laurel Bestock
Yannis Hamilakis
Candace Rice
Felipe Rojas
Peter van Dommelen
Laurel Bestock:
Spring 2024:
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2725 The Making of Egypt
Fall 2023:
EGYT 1430 Pyramids, Power, Propaganda: Ancient Egyptian History to 1300 BCE
Spring 2023:
On leave
Fall 2022:
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
ARCH 1622 Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt
Spring 2022:
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Amarna Age
Fall 2021:
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Summer 2021:
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
Fall 2020:
ARCH 2710 The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt
Spring 2020:
ARCH 2740 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Fall 2019:
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2019:
On leave
Fall 2018:
HMAN 1973M Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt
Spring 2018:
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
ARCH 2725 The Making of Egypt
Fall 2017:
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2017:
ARCH 666 Cult Archaeology: Fantastic Frauds and Meaningful Myths of the Past
EGYT 1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II
Fall 2016:
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2710 The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt
Spring 2016:
ARCH 1625 Temples and Tombs: Egyptian Religion and Culture
EGYT 2900 Egyptian Art in New England Museums
Fall 2015:
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2015:
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Amarna Age
EGYT 2850 Images, Ideology, and Egyptian Warfare
Fall 2014:
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 1840 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Fall 2013:
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2740 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Spring 2014:
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
2012-2013
On leave
Spring 2012:
ARCH 150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2710 The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt
Fall 2011:
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2011:
EGYT 1500 Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Amarna Age
Fall 2010:
On leave
Spring 2010:
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
Fall 2009:
ARCH 150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2105 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Spring 2009:
EGYT 1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II
ARCH 1625 Temples and Tombs: Egyptian Religion and Culture
Fall 2008:
ARCH 150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
EGYT 2510 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Yannis Hamilakis:
Spring 2024:
ARCH 1178 Archaeology and Social Justice: Un-disciplining the Past, Changing the Present
ARCH 1670 The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
Fall 2023:
ARCH 2420 Making Modern Monuments: Race, Coloniality, and the Athenian Acropolis
Spring 2023:
ARCH 0770 Archaeology of Eating and Drinking
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage
Fall 2022:
Spring 2022:
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
HMAN 2401M Decolonial Matters: Thinking from the South
Fall 2021:
ARCH 1670 The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
Spring 2021:
On leave
Fall 2020:
On leave
Spring 2020:
ARCH 2184 Material Culture and the Bodily Senses: Past and Present
Fall 2019:
ARCH 0770 Archaeology of Eating and Drinking
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage
Spring 2019:
ARCH 1670 The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
Fall 2018:
ARCH 1178 Archaeology and Social Justice: Un-disciplining the Past, Changing the Present
Spring 2018:
On leave
Fall 2017:
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage
ARCH 2184 Material Culture and the Bodily Senses: Past and Present
Spring 2017:
ARCH 1546 The Monuments Men: Embedded Scholars and the Military-Archaeology Complex
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
Fall 2016:
ARCH 2153 Archaeological Ethnography: A Multi-Temporal Contact Zone
Candace Rice:
Spring 2024:
ARCH 0526 Behind Closed Doors? The Archaeology of Domestic Life in the Roman World
Fall 2023:
ARCH 2227 Approaching Ancient Economies
Spring 2023:
On leave
Fall 2022:
On leave
Spring 2022:
ARCH 0520 Roman Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2670 Between the Sahara and the Sea: North Africa in the Ancient World
Spring 2021:
ARCH 2228 Prosperity in Antiquity
Fall 2020:
ARCH 0526 Behind Closed Doors? Domestic Life in the Roman World
CLAS 1441 Merchants, Trade, and Commerce in the Roman World
Spring 2020:
ARCH 0520 Roman Archaeology and Art
CLAS 1120 Experiencing the Roman Empire: Life in the Roman Provinces
Fall 2019:
ARCH 2625 Broken Pots to GDP: Economies of the Roman World
Felipe Rojas:
Spring 2024:
HMAN 2401V Marking Meaning: Visual Signs, Language, and Graphic Invention
Fall 2023:
On leave
Spring 2023:
Fall 2022:
ASYR 2100 The Ancient Near East: Early Modern Intellectual Histories
Spring 2022:
ARCH 0255 Monsters
ARCH 1830 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
Fall 2021:
ANTH 1820 Lost Languages
Summer 2021:
ASYR 0310 Thunder-gods and Dragon-slayers: Mythology + Cultural Contact - Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Spring 2021:
ARCH 1025 Greece-Egypt-Anatolia-Mesopotamia: Transcultural Interactions in the Ancient World
ARCH 1712 Ruins: Cross-cultural Understandings of the Material Traces of the Past
Spring 2020:
On leave
Fall 2019:
ARCH 0303 tiny: Miniature Might and Meaning
ARCH 1890 Lost Languages
Spring 2019:
ARCH 1475 Petra: Ancient Wonder, Modern Challenge
ARCH 2156 Other Pasts: Alternative Ontologies in the Study of What Was
Fall 2018:
ARCH 1837 The Origins of Things: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Early Human Worlds
Spring 2018:
ARCH 2115 Ancient Mediterranean Scripts: Origins, Contact, Obsolescence
ASYR 2900 Introduction to Hittite Language and Literature
Fall 2017:
HMAN 0900B Fake: A History of the Inauthentic
Spring 2017:
ARCH 1830 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
ARCH 2475 The World in Stone: Rock-cut Monuments in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Fall 2016:
ARCH 0030 Art in Antiquity: An Introduction
ASYR 0310 Thunder-gods and Dragon-slayers: Mythology + Cultural Contact - Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
On leave
Spring 2015:
ARCH 1835 Inventing the Past: Amulets, Heirlooms, Monuments, Landscapes
AWAS 2910 Readings in Hittite Language and Literature
Fall 2014:
ARCH 0220 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
Spring 2014:
ARCH 0365 Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul: A City in Deep Time
ARCH 2185 Sensing Antiquity: New Approaches to Ancient Aesthetics and Sensoria
Fall 2013:
ARCH 1234 Lost Languages: The Decipherment and Study of Ancient Writing Systems (ANTH 1820)
ARCH 1715 Building Big! Supersized Architectural and Engineering Structures From Antiquity
Spring 2013:
ARCH 2335 In the Wake of Empire: Anatolia after the Hittites, before Alexander
AWAS 2900 Introduction to Hittite Language and Literature
Fall 2012:
ARCH 1835 Inventing the Past: Amulets, Heirlooms, Monuments, Landscapes
Spring 2012:
ARCH 1715 Building Big! Supersized Architectural and Engineering Structures From Antiquity
Fall 2011:
ARCH 2165 The “Second Sophistic”: Archaeological and Literary Approaches
Peter van Dommelen
Spring 2024:
On leave
Fall 2023:
On leave
Spring 2023:
ARCH 1155 Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean
Fall 2022:
ARCH 2157 Subaltern Communities: Archaeological Perspectives Beyond Domination and Resistance
Spring 2022:
ANTH 1145 Bandits and Barbarians: Exploring Subaltern Resilience and State Power
Fall 2021:
ARCH 0230 Myriad Mediterraneans: Archaeology, Representation and Decolonization
Spring 2021:
On leave
Fall 2020:
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2020:
ARCH 2105 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Fall 2019:
ARCH 0530 Hannibal ad Portas! Fact and Fiction on Carthage and the Punic World
Spring 2019:
ANTH 1126 Ethnographies of Heritage: Community and Landscape of the Mediterranean and Beyond
Fall 2018:
ARCH 2630 Global Romans and Indigenous Persistence
Spring 2018:
ARCH 2102 Postcolonial Matters: Material Culture between Colonialism and Globalization
Fall 2017:
ARCH 0415 Of Chiefs, Princesses and Warriors: Exploring Different Iron Ages
Fall 2016:
ANTH 1145 Bandits and Barbarians: Exploring Subaltern Resilience and State Power
Spring 2017:
ARCH 2105 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Fall 2015:
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2016:
ARCH 1155 Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean
Fall 2014:
ARCH 0725 Great Migrations: Mobility, Displacement and Material Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean
ANTH 1126 Archeological Ethnographies: Heritage and Community in the Mediterranean
Spring 2015:
ARCH 0530 Hannibal ad Portas! Fact and Fiction on Carthage and the Punic World
ARCH 2157 Subaltern Communities: Archaeological Perspectives Beyond Domination and Resistance
Fall 2013:
ANTH 0066T Postcolonial Matters: Material Culture between Colonialism and Globalization
ARCH 1680 Exploring Different Iron Ages: Of Chiefs, Princesses and Warriors
Spring 2014:
ARCH 2230 Material Networks: Migration and Trade in the Ancient West Mediterranean
Fall 2012:
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2013:
ARCH 0530 Hannibal ad Portas! Fact and Fiction on Carthage and the Punic World
ARCH 1155 Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean
John F. Cherry:
Spring 2021:
CLAS 0210 O Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2240 Key Issues in Mediterranean Prehistory
Fall 2020:
On leave
Spring 2020:
On leave
Fall 2019:
CLAS 0810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Spring 2019:
On leave
Fall 2018:
CLAS 1120Q The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
ARCH 2020E Economy and Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Spring 2018:
ARCH 1175 Archaeology Matters! Past Perspectives on Modern Problems
Fall 2017:
CLAS 0210 O Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2010B Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World
Spring 2017:
CLAS 0810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
Fall 2016:
CLAS 0210L Who Owns the Classical Past?
ARCH 2240 Key Issues in Mediterranean Prehistory
Spring 2016:
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Fall 2015:
CLAS 1120Q The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
ARCH 2010G Ethical Issues in Archaeology
Spring 2015:
CLAS 0210 O Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2020E Economy and Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Fall 2014:
CLAS 0810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
ARCH 2010B Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World
Spring 2014:
ARCH 1707 The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (CLAS 1120Q)
ARCH 2295 State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean
Fall 2013:
On leave
Spring 2013:
On leave
Fall 2012:
ARCH 1551 Who Owns the Classical Past? (CLAS 1120 O)
ARCH 2240 Key Issues in Mediterranean Prehistory
Spring 2012:
ARCH 1707 The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (CLAS 1120Q)
ARCH 2010G Ethical Issues in Archaeology
Fall 2011:
ARCH 0201 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 1050 Old World and New World Perspectives in Archaeology
Spring 2011:
ARCH 0801 Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition (CLAS 0810A)
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Fall 2010:
ARCH 0201L Who Owns the Classical Past? (CLAS 0210 L)
ARCH 2020E Economy and Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Spring 2010:
ARCH 0201 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 1050 Old World and New World Perspectives in Archaeology
Fall 2009:
ARCH 801 / CLAS 810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
ARCH 2010B Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World
Spring 2009:
CLAS 0210L Who Owns the Classical Past?
ARCH 2350 Archaeology of the Caucasus
Fall 2008:
On leave
Spring 2008:
ARCH 0200 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Fall 2007:
On leave
Spring 2007:
AE0155 Who Owns the Classical Past?
AE0202 Economy & Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Fall 2006:
AE0080 Alexander the Great & the Alexander Tradition
AE0201 S01 Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World