President

Ms. Ann Santen

Ann also serves the AIA as a Society Trustee.  Now retired, Ann spent 25 years at Cincinnati classical radio WGUC where she was General Manager and a founding member of American Public Radio (Public Radio International). Ann has done graduate work in French Literature at the University of Cincinnati.  She frequently audits courses in the Department of Classics, and has participated in the UC excavations at Apollonia in Albania (picture).  She continues to travel extensively, adding new ancient sites each year.

Vice President and Treasurer

Professor Kathleen Lynch

Kathleen is a faculty member in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati.  A pottery specialist, Kathleen has worked at excavations in Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Albania.  Her primary research interest is figured pottery from ancient Athens, and she has spent many summers at the excavations of the Athenian Agora.  She will be on the AIA lecture circuit in 2007-2008.

Secretary

Ms. Carol Hershenson

Carol is the archivist for the Department of Classics’ extensive holdings of excavation related notebooks and materials.  She also edits the premier bibliography for prehistoric Aegean archaeology, Nestor, at the University of Cincinnati.  She has excavated in Greece and Cyprus, and is completing a dissertation on vernacular architecture of pre-palatial Crete.