Jennifer Tobin received her BA in Classical Studies from Stamford University and her PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. From 1992-97, she was Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. In 1997, she returned to the United States and is now Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Professor Tobin worked on archaeological projects in Israel, Turkey and Greece including at Corinth and on Crete. She speaks Modern Greek, German, French, Italian and Turkish, and has published widely on everything from Roman architecture in Syria to Alexander the Great including Herodes Attikos and the City of Athens: Patronage and Conflict under the Antonines. She is a featured teacher for Modern Scholar, recorded not-for-credit lecture courses taught by university professors, including the Glory that was Greece.

Trips with Jennifer Tobin:

Glorious Greece

James Bruhn received his BA in anthropology and history from the University of Colorado (Magna Cum Laude), and his MA and PhD in British Roman Archaeology from the University of Durham. Originally from the Northeast of Scotland, he is a specialist on Roman Frontiers in Northern Britain and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne. Dr. Bruhn has spoken at numerous academic conferences in North America and Europe, has authored a scholarly book on Roman Archaeology and has written book chapters in several scholarly publications including the Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World by Brian Fagan. He has excavated along the Antonine Wall and has tutored small groups on his specialty. Additionally, Dr. Bruhn has organized and been the speaker in several conferences about Roman Britain.

Trips with James Bruhn:

Riches of Scotland

Archaeological Pub Crawl of Great Britian

John France is Professor Emeritus from Swansea University in Wales and is a renowned specialist on the Medieval Period. He has published numerous articles, and is the author of The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, and Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade. Additionally, he has edited several important books including Medieval Warfare, Warfare in the Dark Ages, and War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History. As a result of his research covering this period, he has compiled an electronic database of lives of saints prior to the year 1000. He is also an editor of the Journal of Medieval History. Dr. France was a featured scholar on the History Channel’s impressive two-part documentary, The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross.

Trips with John France:

Eastern Turkey's Lost Kingdoms

In the Path of the Crusades: Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel

Garrett G. Fagan received his PhD in Roman Studies from McMaster Unvierstiy in Canada and is asssociate professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University. As a specialist in Greco-Roman history, he is the author of Bathing in Public in the Roman World and The Lure of the Arena, edited or co-authored three other books, and has numerous scholarly aricles and chapters in print. Professor Fagan has appeared on the acclaimed PBS science series Nova and on The History Channel, and is a lecturer on three courses with The Teaching Company.

Trips with Garrett Fagan:

Turkish Treasures

Claire Calcagno is a maritime archaeologist currently working in STS as a member of the Research Group in Technology, Archaeology and the Deep Sea (DeepArch). Currently, she is conducting research on Harold E. Edgerton and his seminal engineering contributions to archaeology conducted in submerged contexts. For this investigation, which reviews the developing technologies of underwater archaeology, she is particularly interested in exploring the processes of cross-pollination between the engineering, oceanographic and archaeology communities, both with relevance to how the discipline of maritime archaeology first evolved, as well as to current issues in remote sensing and deep-water research.

Calcagno received her bachelor's degree in fine arts (art history) from Harvard in 1982. Graduate work in archaeology at the University of Oxford led her to a master's in maritime archaeology (M.St. 1991) and a doctorate (D.Phil. 1998), with a dissertation on seafaring and maritime exchanges in the Central Mediterranean region between the 12th to 9th centuries BC (due to be published with BAR Archaeopress, Oxford). In recent years, she has taught courses in maritime archaeology and technology at Boston University (1999-2000), and the University of Southampton (2001), as well as in humanities studies at Stanford University (2000-2001). Her archaeological fieldwork experience has included surveys and excavations on land, in addition to under water in Italy, France, Tunisia, Turkey and Bermuda, and will extend to American waters this spring with a remote sensing project on the USS Monitor with M.I.T./DeepArch.

Trips with Claire Calcagno:

Sensational Sicily

Brett Whalen received his MA and PhD in History from Stanford University, and is an Associate Professor with the History Department at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His fascination with the Middle Ages began at the Children's Library with a book on Charlemagne and The Hobbit. A featured scholar on the History Channel’s impressive production The Dark Ages, he is a specialist on the medieval period including the crusades and the Papacy. He has been an invited speaker at conferences in the United States and several countries in Europe, and is the author of Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Professor Whalen speaks and reads ancient Latin, French, and German, and has a working knowledge of ancient Greek. Professor Whalen has consistently received outstanding reviews as a teacher -

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=643838 - and his enthusiasm and knowledge makes him an outstanding study leader.

Trips with Brett Whalen:

Cyprus & Malta

Jenny Rose received her MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and her PhD from Columbia University in Iranian Studies. She is
presently an Associate Professor of Zoroastrian Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Rose was formerly a senior lecturer at Brunel University, London, and has been the invited speaker at conferences throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe. She has published extensively in her field, including articles in Encyclopaedia Iranica, a multi-disciplinary reference work designed to record the facts of Iranian history and civilization. She has recently written two books on the Zoroastrian religion, the first of which is in print under the title Zoroastrianism: An Introduction (I.B. Tauris, 2011): the second book, Zoroastrianism, is due out in the fall of 2011 (Continuum Press). Dr. Rose is conversational in Persian, reads Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Avestan and Pahlavi (Middle Persian).

Trips with Jenny Rose:

Iran: Empires of Everlasting Fires

Gary O. Rollefson received his PhD from the University of Arizona, and is presently a professor of anthropology at Whitman College. He has conducted fieldwork in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Since 1982, Dr. Rollefson has been Principal Investigator at the excavations at Neolithic ‘Ain Ghazal, which has produced stunning examples of 10,000 year-old statues and other unique religious paraphernalia. Dr. Rollefson's exciting discoveries of ritual structures in Wadi Rum are changing the way that archaeologists are looking at copper age and bronze age pastoral societies. His

most recent work is in the eastern desert of Jordan where he has found a 1 1/2 square mile necropolis. His main publications include Prehistoric Archaeology in the Deserts of Jordan. Professor. Rollefson’s knowledge of Jordan and its archaeology, along with his sense of humor and excitement about Jordan makes him an ideal leader.

Trips with Gary Rollefson:

Grandeur of Petra, Splendors of Jordan

Damian Evans received his PhD from the University of Sydney. He is presently the Director of the University of Sydney Robert Christie Research Centre in Siem Reap, Cambodia, established for the study of Khmer history, society and archaeology. Dr. Evans is also the Principal Investigator for the Radar Settlement Surveys in Cambodia and Deputy Director of the Greater Angkor Project (GAP), the largest international, multidisciplinary research program at Angkor. His ground breaking discoveries using space technology have been reported extensively in international news reports, journals and newspapers including the Associated Press, the Daily Telegraph in England, the Los Angeles Times (front page), Science, Archaeology Magazine, International Herald Tribune, New Scientist, National Geographic News, ABC News, and BBC News and BBC Radio. Dr. Evans was featured in both the National Geographic Channel’s and the History Channel’s documentaries on Angkor. He has been the invited speaker at conferences throughout the world including Mexico, Taiwan, Vietnam, the United States, China, Egypt and India, and has been the recipient of a multitude of awards and grants including one from National Geographic. Dr. Evans is conversant in both French and Khmer.

Trips with Damian Evans:

Discover Angkor Wat and Remote Laos

Risha K. Lee received her BA in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard College, and her MA and PhD in Art History from Columbia University. Her dissertation studies the exchange of art, people, and ideas between India and China. Dr. Lee has studied Mandarin, French, Italian, Tamil, and Tamil epigraphy. She is a specialist in South Asian art and architecture, with a focus on the art and history of southern India. She has held teaching appointments at Columbia University, the American University of Beirut, and will be a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore this upcoming fall.

Trips with Risha Lee:

South India: Temples and Traditions

Dru C. Gladney received his BA in both Philosophy and Religious Studies at Westmont College, a Chinese Diploma from Peking University, two MAs (in Cross-cultural Studies and in Theology) from Fuller Theological Seminary, a MA in Anthropology and PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle. A Post-Doctoral MacArthur Fellow, he is presently a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Pomona College. He has published extensively, both articles and books, including Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects, Ethnic Identity in China: the Making of a Muslim Minority, and Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People’s Republic. Professor Gladney is renowned for his work on the Uyghur culture and Islam in western China and Central Asia. He has been the consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives, the World Bank, UNESCOS’s Silk road Project, the Smithsonian Institution, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; speaker for the Council on Foreign Relations; and worked with National Geographic – all concerning ethnic minorities in western China and along the Silk Route. He has done field work in many countries including China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Iran. Professor Gladney has been interviewed by and has contributed to many newspaper and magazines including the New York Times, Associated Press, Newsweek Magazine and International Herald Tribune, interviewed on television and radio with CBS, Channel 4 (London), BBC, Al–Jazeera, and Canadian Television, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe. He speaks and reads several languages including Modern Chinese, Turkish, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz. Dr. Gladney was voted one of the ’90 Fabulous Faculty’ when teaching at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and has received unusually high ratings on ‘Rate My Professor’.

Trips with Dru C. Gladney:

China: Along the Silk Road

Michael D. Coe is Professor and Curator Emeritus at Yale University. He has done research on Maya hieroglyphic writing and iconography, the Maya and Olmec civilizations of MesoAmerica, Khmer cultural history, the history of chocolate and the archaeology of colonial New England. After retiring from a long career specializing in the Maya, Professor Coe went back to his first love and published The Khmer. During the past three decades, he has made two extensive sojourns in Bali, traveling to all corners of this fascinating island, studying and photographing its culture, its ceremonial life, its dramas and dances -- as well as to the great temple centers of Borobudur and Prambanan in central Java. He specializes in the comparative study of the civilizations of the lowland tropics, especially Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica. He has been a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1986. Professor Coe has been given the Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award by Harvard University (1989); the James D. Burke Prize in Fine Arts, Saint Louis Art Museum (2001); the Order of the Quetzal, Government of Guatemala (2004) presented to him by the vice president of Guatemala, the Orden del Pop, Museo Popol Vuh (2006); and the Linda Schele Award, University of Texas (2008).

Trips with Michael D. Coe:

Bali: Island Paradise and Cultural Enigmas

Cinzia Perlingieri received her M.A. in Classic Archaeology and History of Arts from the University of Naples, and her PhD in Archaeology from the same institution. Her archaeological career in northern Africa began in 1989. She has excavated in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan, and her dissertation was on her research at Aksum, Ethiopia. From 1992 – 2005, she was a field director for the Bieta Giyorgis (Aksum, Ethiopia), Italian-American Joint Archaeological Expedition. Dr. Perlingieri has published articles in many publications and has presented papers at conferences all over Europe and the United States. Dr. Perlingieri has taught at the University of Naples and University of Turin in Italy, the Art Center in Bahrein, and the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a Visiting Scholar and Director of Research at the Center for Digital Archaeology.

Trips with Cinzia Perlingieri:

Ethiopia: The Wonders of the Horn of Africa

Professor Bob Brier received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina. He is not only one of the nation’s leading Egyptologists, but a brilliant lecturer and storyteller. He is professor of philosophy at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and the author of several books including The Murder of Tutankhamen: A True Story (Berkley Books, 1998), The Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians (Greenwood Press, 1999) and The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery (Harper Collins, 2008). Professor Brier has served as director of the "Egyptology Today" program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as host of the Learning Channel series, The Great Egyptians. He has twice been selected as a Fulbright Scholar, and has received Long Island University’s David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition of his achievements as a lecturer. Bob is a featured lecturer on The Teaching Company series, and a wonderful teacher with a special flair for evoking the distant past in ways that make it seem vividly present.

Patricia Remler is an author, photographer, and art historian. She was the Researcher for four important Learning Channel documentaries - the three-part Pyramids, Tombs, and Mummies, the six-part series The Great Egyptians, the one hour Napoleon's Obsession: The Quest for Egypt, and the three-part series Unwrapped, The Mysterious World of Mummies. She is the author of Egyptian Mythology A - Z.

Trips with Bob Brier and Patricia Remler:

The Majesty of Egypt

The Oases of Egypt

Egypt and Rome in England

Undiscovered Egypt: Alexandria, Amarna, and three days onboard a Dahabiya

Professor Barry Kemp is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has worked regularly in field archaeology in Egypt since 1967, including at Amenhotep III’s palace town of Malkata, western Thebes. He is renowned for his groundbreaking work at Tell el-Amarna, where he has directed excavation and archaeological survey since 1977. Professor Kemp’s seminal book, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation is a core text of Egyptology and is used in many ancient history courses. His many other publications include: The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti; Amarna and its people,100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian, How to Read The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and numerous articles and technical reports for Egyptology texts and journals. For his substantial contributions to Egyptian archaeology and international relations, he was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by the Queen in 2011.

Trips with Barry Kemp:

Undiscovered Egypt: Alexandria, Amarna, and three days onboard a Dahabiya

Salima Ikram received her BA from Bryn Mawr College, and her Masters and PhD from Cambridge University. She is presently Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She has been a consultant at several museums - Smithsonian Institution Natural History Museum, Poznan Archaeological Museum, Poland; Kom Ombo Museum; Lisbon Mummy Project, National Museum of Lisbon (2009-2011). Professor Ikram has directed or been part of the archaeological team at numerous projects in several countries - Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan – and has been the recipient of research grants from many sources including National Geographic. She is the author of many books and publications including Ancient Egypt, An Introduction; The Tomb in Ancient Egypt; Beloved Beasts: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt; and Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt. Professor Ikram is actively involved with the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and has been the invited speaker at presentations and conferences throughout the world, including the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Italy and Egypt. A frequent featured scholar on radio and television (the Today Show, BBC, National Geographic, The History Channel, NOVA, and Discovery, among others), Dr. Ikram was Consultant for National Geographic magazine from 2001-2010. She has reading knowledge of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Urdu, Middle Egyptian, and basic knowledge of colloquial Egyptian Arabic and Latin. Professor Ikram’s lively personality, deep knowledge of the area, and enthusiastic teaching skills will make travel with her especially rewarding.

Sidsel Millerström received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Polynesian archaeology. She is a specialist on archaeological art and architecture and has worked on excavations all over Polynesia including Easter Island, Fiji, the Marquesas, and Tahiti. From 1984, Dr. Millerstrom has worked on all six presently inhabited islands in the Marquesas during which she discovered and recorded numerous tikis, carvings of human figures, and more that 7,000 ancient petroglyphs. Up to this time no systematic survey had been conducted in the Marquesas, an archipelago which, in prehistory, was connected culturally with Easter Island. Dr. Millerström excavated cave sites on Easter Island and worked with Dr. Georgia Lee documenting the rock art and sculptures on the island. Dr. Millerström's work has appeared in various scholarly and popular journals.

Trips with Sidsel Millerström:

Easter Island with the Tapati Festival

Stanley Paul Guenter, born in the prairies of Canada, was first introduced to the Maya culture and ancient script at the age of ten. He has been studying the Mesoamerican cultures ever since. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary, his Master’s Degree at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia with Dr. Peter Mathews, and his PhD in Archaeology from Southern Methodist University. He has worked on archaeological projects in eastern Tabasco, Mexico and is currently an epigrapher and archaeologist with two archaeological projects in Guatemala: The Regional Archaeological Investigations of Northern Peten, Guatemala (RAINPEG), directed by Dr. Richard D. Hansen, and the Southern Methodist University El Peru/Waka’ project, directed by Dr. David Freidel. Stanley is one of the outstanding rising stars of Mesoamerican writing systems and has taught and presented at many conferences in Canada, the United States, Australia, Germany and Denmark. He has done a full study of the inscriptions of Dos Pilas in relation to Tikal (you may see the readings on the mesoweb.com site).

Trips with Stanley Paul Guenter:

The Maya of the Yucatan

The Archaeology of Belize

William D. Sapp, III received his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he studied with noted Moche scholar Christopher Donnan. His interests include the high civilizations of Andean South America, the development of sociopolitical complexity, and settlement patterns. Bill based his doctoral dissertation on his excavations of the palace of Cabur, in the Jequetepeque Valley. He spent another six seasons excavating at the Chimú administrative centers of Algarrobal de Moro and Farfán. Specializing in architecture and ceramics, Bill is an expert in the late pre-Hispanic cultures of the Peruvian North Coast-the Lambayeque and Chimú - as well as the Inka. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills. Conversant in Spanish, he is charming and articulate, and a knowledgeable study leader.

Trips with William Sapp III:

Archaeology of Peru

Anita G. Cook is Professor of Anthropology at Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. She received her MA and PhD at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Peru including Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru (edited with Elizabeth Benson). Dr. Cook has directed several major archaeological survey and excavation projects in Peru and is the author of numerous publications including Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru (with Elizabeth Benson). She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including a Fulbright for work in coastal Wari settlements in the lower Ica Valley, and from both National Geographic and Dumbarton Oaks. She has been a consultant to the Cultural Attaché of the Peruvian Embassy, the Denver Art Museum, the National Geographic Society, and the Field Museum. Dr. Cook is a Research Associate with the Department of Anthropology, The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and has been the invited speaker for many conferences in the United States, Canada, Peru and Ecuador. Dr. Cook is fluent in Spanish and with great depth of knowledge of Peru and its archaeology.

Trips with Anita Cook:

Peru: Hiking the Inka Trail

John Hoopes received is BA in archaeology at Yale University and his PhD from Harvard in anthropology with anemphasis on archaeology. His dissertation was on stylistic analy­sis of pottery from sites in Costa Rica. Dr. Hoopes is Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Kansas and Courtesy Curator at the university’s museum where he advises the research and exhibitions of Pre-Columbian collections from Mexico, Central America, and South America. He is fluent in Spanish, has been working in Costa Rica since 1978, and has received grants for his projects from both the National Science Foundation and Fulbright. Professor Hoopes has published extensively, both in print and on the internet, and his new book (co-edited with Jeffrey Quilter), Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia is in press.

Trips with John Hoopes:

Costa Rica: Hidden Archaeology and Nature's Riches

John Wayne Janusek received is BA and MA in anthropology from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Since 1998, he has been a professor at Vanderbilt University where he consistently is rated very high by his students. Dr. Janusek has worked in the Bolivian highlands since 1987 conducting archaeological research principally focused on the Tiwanaku civilization and its precursors. Fluent in Spanish, he has been a visiting scholar several times at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz. Professor Janusek has been a consultant on Bolivia for National Geographic and The Discovery Channel, and has been the invited lecturer within the United States and several foreign countries including Bolivia, Finland and Germany. He has written numerous articles and publications,and is the author of Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities through Time and Ancient Tiwanaku and Ancient Tiwanaku. Professor Janusek is an exceptional teacher with a special talent for displaying the distant past in ways that make it seem vividly present.

Trips with John Wayne Janusek:

The Archaeology of Bolivia

Joanne P. Baron received her BA in Anthropolgy Summa cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, and is ABD (All But Dissertation) for her PhD from the same institution. She has studied under Simon Martin, a renowned British epigrapher, historian, Mayanist scholar, and research specialist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and has worked on archaeological projects in Belize, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras. Fluent in both Spanish and Maya hieroglpyhs, Joanne is both an archaeologist and an epigrapher which makes her one of only a handful of scholars who are knowledgeable in both fields. She is presently working as part of a team of prominent archaeologists and epigraphers on the La Corona Regional Archaeology Project, also known as Site Q, one of the most intriguing ancient cities in the Maya World. Joanne is one of the rising young stars who specialize in the Maya. She has published extensively and has presented papers at symposia both in the USA and in other parts of the world including Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Paris and Poland. Joanne was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 2005 and was the recipient of a sizeable grant from the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation for her dissertation research. Her knowledge of both the archaeological work and the written history of the sites to be visited during the trip will make her an exciting leader.

Trips with Joanne P. Baron::

The Capitial Cities of the Maya