Archaeology Seminars
Seminar topics are determined for each semester in consultation with the graduate students. See also, all departmental course offerings.
Fall 2025 Graduate 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 | Graduate 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 Graduate 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 | Graduate Intensive Survey | Palermo, R. | 11:10 AM-12:00 PM MW |
List of Graduate 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)