Notes on Contributors

Hilary Becker is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Mississippi. She co-edited with Margarita Gleba the volume Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion (2009). She participates in the ongoing excavations of the Area Sacra di S. Omobono in Rome.

Marshall J. Becker is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at West Chester University. He specializes in studies of human skeletal biology in Italy with a focus on Tarquinia. His forthcoming book (with J. M. Turfa) is The Golden Smile: The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry.

Sinclair Bell is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and the Howard Foundation. He is the co-editor of five other books, including New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome (2009).

Claudio Bizzarri is currently Director of PAAO (Archaeological and Environmental Park-Orvieto). He has taught at universities in Italy (Camerino, Foggia, Macerata, and the University of Arizona Study Abroad Program in Orvieto) as well as in South Carolina. He has been the Kress Foundation Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America.

Giovannangelo Camporeale is Professor Emeritus of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities, University of Florence, Chairman of Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, and member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He is the author of several ground-breaking publications. Over the last three decades he has directed the excavations at Massa Marittima, an Etruscan mining settlement.

Alexandra A. Carpino is Professor of Art History at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans (2003) and several articles on mirror iconography. She also served as the Editor-in-Chief of Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation from 2011 to 2014.

Alexis Q. Castor is Associate Professor of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College. She is preparing a monograph on Greek and Etruscan jewelry in the first millennium BCE. She has written on specific jewelry types, a jewelry cache from Poggio Colla, and the iconography of jewelry in Greece and Etruria.

Letizia Ceccarelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses mainly on architectural terracottas, and Etruscan and Roman material culture production.

Francesco de Angelis is Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. His research interests include the reception of Greek mythology in Etruria; the interaction of spaces, images, and social practices; and ancient antiquarianism. Among his most recent publications is a monograph on Etruscan funerary urns.

Richard Daniel De Puma is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Iowa where he taught for thirty-five years. During his “retirement” he has published three books and many articles on Etruscan or Roman art, excavated in Italy, and lectured in America, Europe and New Zealand.

Margarita Gleba is European Research Council Principal Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy (2008) and editor of six other books. Her research focuses on all aspects of textiles and textile production in ancient world.

Ann C. Gunter is the Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. Her recent publications include Greek Art and the Orient (2009) and contributions to A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (2012) and Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art (2013).

Ingrid Krauskopf worked for the LIMC and ThesCRA projects at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and was applied professor of Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg (retired 2010). She has published extensively on Etruscan and Greek mythology and religion.

Gordon Lobay is an Associate Scholar on the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project and a Partner at Perrett Laver. He holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on assessing the strategies and legal instruments governments use to protect cultural property.

Gretchen E. Meyers is Associate Professor of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College. Her research focuses on Etruscan architecture, roofing tiles, and textile production. She has served as Director of Materials at the site of Poggio Colla since 2004. She is preparing a monograph on the social identity of Etruscan women.

Helen Nagy is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Puget Sound. Her research emphasizes Etruscan mirrors and votive religion, specifically terracotta votive figurines. Her publications include a book, articles and book chapters on Greek sculpture, Etruscan terracottas, and mirrors. She has lectured widely on these topics.

Skylar Neil recently completed her PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She has a BA in Ancient Studies from University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a MA in Classical Archaeology from Tufts University. She is interested in identity construction and the relationship between ethnicity and the built environment.

Philip Perkins is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies, The Open University. Over the past 30 years he has worked on artifacts, field survey, and excavation, including the first-ever Etruscan farm at Podere Tartuchino, bucchero in the British Museum, and excavation and bucchero studies at Poggio Colla.

Lisa C. Pieraccini teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests and publications include Etruscan pottery, funerary archaeology, wall painting, and the reception of the Etruscans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is a member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence.

Corinna Riva is Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. Her research interests cover Iron Age Italy and the first millennium BCE in the central Mediterranean. She is co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey project (Marche, Italy). She is the author of The Urbanisation of Etruria (2010).

Ingrid D. Rowland is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in Rome. She writes and lectures on Classical Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Age of the Baroque, and is the author of numerous books, including The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (2004).

Jocelyn Penny Small is Professor Emerita in the Department of Art History, Rutgers University. She excavated for three seasons at Poggio Civitate and has focused on Etruscan art for much of her career in numerous articles and three books. Currently she is working on illusionism in Greek and Roman art.

David Soren is Regents’ Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Arizona and a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome. His publications include two volumes on the archaeological excavations at Chianciano Terme (Tuscany) and a volume on The Roman Villa and Infant Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria).

Stephan Steingräber has taught at the universities of Munich, Mainz, Tokyo, Padua, and Foggia. He is currently Professor of Etruscology at the University of Roma Tre. His numerous publications deal mainly with the historical topography, urbanism, architecture, and tomb painting of Etruria and Southern Italy.

Simon Stoddart is Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has directed several fieldwork projects in Central Italy (Casentino, Grotte di Castro, Montelabate, Gubbio, and Nepi) and has written/edited books on Etruscan Italy, the Mediterranean Bronze Age, and other topics.

Anthony S. Tuck is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is director of the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Excavations.

Jean MacIntosh Turfa is currently a Consulting Scholar and occasional Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Her books include A Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (2005), The Etruscan World (edited, 2013), and Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice (2012).

Rex E. Wallace is Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of Research for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests are the languages and inscriptions of ancient Italy, the history of Greek and Latin, and comparative/historical linguistics.

P. Gregory Warden is President of Franklin University Switzerland. He is co-Director of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project. Formerly a University Distinguished Professor at SMU, he is a Foreign Member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi e Italici and a Consulting Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology.