Trips Guided by Leading Academics
Our worldwide tours are designed to immerse our travelers in an experience for learning about new people and cultures. Our PhD scholars are picked for their expertise in a given area and for their congeniality as traveling companions. This is a vacation after all!
Please click on each scholar’s picture for a detailed biography and to see what upcoming trips he or she is leading.
Bob Brier
Senior Research Fellow
Long Island University
Egyptology
James Bruhn
Scheduling, Marine and Battlefields Team
Historic Scotland
British Roman Archaeology
Brian Buchanan
Research Associate
Durham University
British Medieval Archaeology
Damian Evans
Co-Director
Greater Angkor Project
Ancient Khmer Civilization
Mark B. Garrison
Professor
Trinity University
Glyptic Arts of Ancient Iran and Iraq
John France
Professor Emeritus
Swansea University in Wales
Renowned specialist on the Medieval Period
Jenny Rose
Assistant Professor
Claremont Graduate University
Zoroastrian Studies of Ancient Iran
Luisa Sernicola
Researcher
University of Hamburg
Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies
Edwin C. Krupp
Director
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles
Ancient Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy
Jennifer Tobin
Associate Professor of History and Classics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Greek and Roman Art & Archaeology
Thomas F. X. Noble
Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Medieval and Roman History
Steven Ashby
Senior Lecturer
University of York, England
Medieval Archaeology
Marcello Canuto
Director, Middle America Research Institute
Tulane University
Pre-Columbian Americas
Salima Ikram
Distinguished Professor
American University in Cairo
Egyptology
Todd Bostwick
Senior Research Archaeologist
PaleoWest Archaeology
Ancient American Southwest
Stanley Guenter
University of Calgary
La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia
PhD in Archaeology
Sidsel Millerström
Specialist on art
Including rock art and architecture in Polynesia
PhD in Polynesian archaeology
Clark Erickson
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Anthropology
Malcolm David Eckel
Director, Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Boston University
Philosophical theory and religious practice
Enda O’Flaherty
Survey & Geophysics
Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd.
Landscape Archaeology of Ireland
Steven L. Tuck
Professor
Miami University
History and Classics
Johan Elverskog
Professor
Southern Methodist University
Religious Studies
Gary Rollefson
Professor
Whitman College
Anthropology
Andrew Roddick
Assistant Professor
McMaster University
Archaeology
Karl Taube
Professor of Archaeology
University of California – Riverside
Department of Anthropology
Stephen Lekson
Professor of Anthropology
University of Colorado
Department of Anthropology
William R Cook
Professor of History
State University of New York – Geneseo
Department of History
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Professor in Ancient History
Cardiff University
School of History, Archaeology & Religion
Vassil Tenekedjiev
Assistant Professor
Varna Regional Museum of History
Department of Archaeology
Patrick Allitt
Professor of American History
Emory University
Department of History
Cynthia Packert
Professor of History of Art & Architecture
Middlebury College
Department of History of Art & Architecture
Tim Kendall
Egyptology with specialty in Nubian Civilization
Kylie Quave
Assistant Professor
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University
Elizabeth Rowe
Lecturer
University of Cambridge, England
Scandinavian History of the Viking Age
Timothy Pauketat
Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Department of Anthropology
Paula Richman & Michael Fisher
Dept. of Religion, Dept. of History
Oberlin College
Eric Tagliacozzo
John Stambaugh Professor of History
Cornell University
Department of History
Robin Coningham
Professor
Durham University
Department of Archaeology
Guy David Hepp
Assistant Professor
California State University, San Bernardino
Department of Anthropology
William Tronzo and Gail Feigenbaum
Senior Professor
University of California, San Diego
Art History
Jeremy McInerney
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Classics
Robert Garland
Emeritus Professor
Colgate University
Department of Classics