Dr. Emma Blake received her Ph.D. from the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University in 1999. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics at Tufts University and will join the UA Department of Classics in 2009-2010. Her research interests focus on the Western Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Ages. Dr. Blake is Co-Director of the Marsala Hinterland Field Survey in western Sicily. She is a co-author of The Oxford Handbook of Classical Archaeology (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory (Blackwell Press 2005), as well as various articles and book chapters. Her many fellowships and grants include an appointment as Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Archaeology Center (2007) and a Mellon Foundation Research Leave Grant (2003). She also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2003-2005) and as the Cotsen Visiting Scholar at UCLA in 2001.
Dr. Robert Schon received his Ph.D. (2002) from Bryn Mawr College in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. He taught previously at Wellesley College, the U of A, Stanford University, and Brooklyn College. Robert's primary research interests include Mycenaean Greece, the archaeology of the Mediterranean and Balkan regions, archaeological survey, and "International Relations" in the ancient world. He has conducted fieldwork in Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Albania, and Queens, N.Y. and currently co-directs the Marsala Hinterland Survey, a diachronic regional field project that investigates, among other topics, the interaction between Greeks, Phoenicians, and the indigenous cultures of western Sicily during the first millennium BCE. His recent publications focus on Mycenaean palatial economies and he has begun work on a book entitled, Strategies of Power in Mycenaean Greece. Also, Robert has recently been appointed the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections.
Dr. Christopher van den Berg was awarded a Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2006 for his dissertation "The Social Aesthetics of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus." This past year, he served as a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College. In 2006-2007, Dr. van den Berg was the American Philological Association Post-Doctorate Fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, Germany. There he composed various forthcoming entries for the TLL. He is the author of a chapter in Kakos: Badness and Anti-Values in Classical Antiquity (forthcoming, Brill Press), and of a forthcoming article entitled "The Ideology of the Couch in the Material and Literary Cultures of the Pulvinar."
