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Jack L. Davis - CV Professor of Greek Archaeology. PhD, University of Cincinnati, 1977 jack.davis@uc.edu phone: 513-556-1939 fax: 513-556-4366 room: 305 Blegen Research Areas: |
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Biography: Jack L. Davis is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology. He came to the University of Cincinnati from the University of Illinois, where he taught from 1977-1991.In Greece Professor Davis has directed archaeological regional studies projects on the island of Keos, in the Nemea Valley, and in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Messenia. He participated in the publication of excavations on Keos and on Melos and, as an authority in the archaeology of the Aegean islands, is author of "Review of Aegean Prehistory: The Islands of the Aegean," in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America) 19-94 and to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Other research interests include the history and archaeology of Ottoman and early modern Greece, and the history of Classical archaeology, in particular its relationship to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Currently Davis is directing regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia, and is also engaged in a project to publish unpublished finds from Blegen's excavations at the Palace of Nestor. His books include: Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979); Keos V. Ayia Irini: Period V (Mainz 1986); Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands (Los Angeles 1991), winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize; Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (University of Texas Press 1998; also in Greek translation); A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and the Hora Museum (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2001); and An Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century, Hesperia Supplement 34, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2005. From 2007-2012 he will be on leave from the University of Cincinnati in order to serve as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. |
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