Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Past Courses by Instructor
Past Courses by Instructor
Courses taught by Joukowsky Institute Academic Faculty members, arranged by instructor's last name.
Laurel Bestock
Spring 2025
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
EGYT 2510 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Fall 2024
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
Spring 2024
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2725 The Making of Egypt
Fall 2023
EGYT 1430 Pyramids, Power, Propaganda: Ancient Egyptian History to 1300 BCE
Spring 2023
On leave
Fall 2022
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
ARCH 1622 Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt
Spring 2022
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Amarna Age
Fall 2021
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Summer 2021
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
Fall 2020
ARCH 2710 The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt
Spring 2020
ARCH 2740 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Fall 2019
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2019
On leave
Fall 2018
HMAN 1973M Art, Secrecy, and Invisibility in Ancient Egypt
Spring 2018
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
ARCH 2725 The Making of Egypt
Fall 2017
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2017
ARCH 666 Cult Archaeology: Fantastic Frauds and Meaningful Myths of the Past
EGYT 1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II
Fall 2016
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2710 The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt
Spring 2016
ARCH 1625 Temples and Tombs: Egyptian Religion and Culture
EGYT 2900 Egyptian Art in New England Museums
Fall 2015
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2015
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Amarna Age
EGYT 2850 Images, Ideology, and Egyptian Warfare
Fall 2014
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 1840 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Fall 2013
ARCH 0150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2740 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Spring 2014
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
On leave
Spring 2012
ARCH 150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2710 The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt
Fall 2011
ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
Spring 2011
EGYT 1500 Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture
ARCH 1635 The Great Heresy: Egypt in the Amarna Age
Fall 2010
On leave
Spring 2010
EGYT 1430 History of Egypt I
ARCH 1630 Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare
Fall 2009
ARCH 150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2105 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Spring 2009
EGYT 1510 Ancient Egyptian Art II
ARCH 1625 Temples and Tombs: Egyptian Religion and Culture
Fall 2008
ARCH 150 Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology and Art
EGYT 2510 Social Life in Ancient Egypt
Tyler Franconi
Spring 2025
CLAS 0322 Somewhere Back in Time: Archaeology, the Ancient World, and Heavy Metal Music
ARCH 2265 Nature and Society in the Ancient World
Spring 2024
ARCH 1765 Pandemics, Pathogens, and Plagues in the Greek and Roman Worlds
ARCH 2635 An Empire without Bounds: The Roman Empire in Its ‘Global’ Context
Fall 2023
ARCH 0680 Water, Culture, & Power
Spring 2023
ARCH 0320 Somewhere Back in Time: Archaeology, the Ancient World, and Heavy Metal Music
ARCH 2610 From Hilltop to Caput Mundi: The Archaeology of the Roman World
Fall 2022
ARCH 0407 Hadrian's Wall: Soldiers and Civilians on Rome's Northern Frontier
Spring 2022
ARCH 0529 Swords, Sandals, and Saunas: The Roman Army in War and Peace
ARCH 1765 Pandemics, Pathogens, and Plagues in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Fall 2021
ARCH 2265 Nature and Society in the Ancient World
Spring 2021
ARCH 0528 Living on the Edge: Communities of the Roman Frontier
Fall 2020
ARCH 1765 Pandemics, Pathogens, and Plagues in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Spring 2020
ARCH 0680 Water, Culture, & Power
Fall 2019
ARCH 0407 Hadrian's Wall: Soldiers and Civilians on Rome's Northern Frontier
Yannis Hamilakis
Spring 2025
On leave
Fall 2024
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
ARCH 2184 Material Culture and the Bodily Senses: Past and Present
Spring 2024
ARCH 1178 Archaeology and Social Justice: Un-disciplining the Past, Changing the Present
ARCH 1670 The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
Fall 2023
ARCH 2420 Making Modern Monuments: Race, Coloniality, and the Athenian Acropolis
Spring 2023
ARCH 0770 Archaeology of Eating and Drinking
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage
Spring 2022
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
HMAN 2401M Decolonial Matters: Thinking from the South
Fall 2021
ARCH 1670 The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
Spring 2021
On leave
Fall 2020
On leave
Spring 2020
ARCH 2184 Material Culture and the Bodily Senses: Past and Present
Fall 2019
ARCH 0770 Archaeology of Eating and Drinking
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage
Spring 2019
ARCH 1670 The Beginning of the End? Neolithic "Revolutions" and the Shaping of the Modern World
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
Fall 2018
ARCH 1178 Archaeology and Social Justice: Un-disciplining the Past, Changing the Present
Spring 2018
On leave
Fall 2017
MGRK 1220 Decolonizing Classical Antiquity: White Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ancient Material Heritage
ARCH 2184 Material Culture and the Bodily Senses: Past and Present
Spring 2017
ARCH 1546 The Monuments Men: Embedded Scholars and the Military-Archaeology Complex
MGRK 1210 A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience
Fall 2016
ARCH 2153 Archaeological Ethnography: A Multi-Temporal Contact Zone
Candace Rice
Spring 2025
HMAN 2402 Empire: Global Perspectives
Fall 2024
ARCH 1900 The Archaeology of College Hill
Spring 2024
ARCH 0526 Behind Closed Doors? The Archaeology of Domestic Life in the Roman World
Fall 2023
ARCH 2227 Approaching Ancient Economies
Spring 2023
On leave
Fall 2022
On leave
Spring 2022
ARCH 0520 Roman Archaeology and Art
ARCH 2670 Between the Sahara and the Sea: North Africa in the Ancient World
Spring 2021
ARCH 2228 Prosperity in Antiquity
Fall 2020
ARCH 0526 Behind Closed Doors? Domestic Life in the Roman World
CLAS 1441 Merchants, Trade, and Commerce in the Roman World
Spring 2020
ARCH 0520 Roman Archaeology and Art
CLAS 1120 Experiencing the Roman Empire: Life in the Roman Provinces
Fall 2019
ARCH 2625 Broken Pots to GDP: Economies of the Roman World
Felipe Rojas
Spring 2025
ANTH 1820 Lost Languages
Fall 2024
ARCH 1830 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
ASYR 2920 Hittite Historical Texts
Spring 2024
HMAN 2401V Marking Meaning: Visual Signs, Language, and Graphic Invention
Fall 2023
On leave
Fall 2022
ASYR 2100 The Ancient Near East: Early Modern Intellectual Histories
Spring 2022
ARCH 0255 Monsters
ARCH 1830 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
Fall 2021
ANTH 1820 Lost Languages
Summer 2021
ASYR 0310 Thunder-gods and Dragon-slayers: Mythology + Cultural Contact - Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Spring 2021
ARCH 1025 Greece-Egypt-Anatolia-Mesopotamia: Transcultural Interactions in the Ancient World
ARCH 1712 Ruins: Cross-cultural Understandings of the Material Traces of the Past
Spring 2020
On leave
Fall 2019
ARCH 0303 tiny: Miniature Might and Meaning
ARCH 1890 Lost Languages
Spring 2019
ARCH 1475 Petra: Ancient Wonder, Modern Challenge
ARCH 2156 Other Pasts: Alternative Ontologies in the Study of What Was
Fall 2018
ARCH 1837 The Origins of Things: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Early Human Worlds
Spring 2018
ARCH 2115 Ancient Mediterranean Scripts: Origins, Contact, Obsolescence
ASYR 2900 Introduction to Hittite Language and Literature
Fall 2017
HMAN 0900B Fake: A History of the Inauthentic
Spring 2017
ARCH 1830 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
ARCH 2475 The World in Stone: Rock-cut Monuments in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Fall 2016
ARCH 0030 Art in Antiquity: An Introduction
ASYR 0310 Thunder-gods and Dragon-slayers: Mythology + Cultural Contact - Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
On leave
Spring 2015
ARCH 1835 Inventing the Past: Amulets, Heirlooms, Monuments, Landscapes
AWAS 2910 Readings in Hittite Language and Literature
Fall 2014
ARCH 0220 Fake! History of the Inauthentic
Spring 2014
ARCH 0365 Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul: A City in Deep Time
ARCH 2185 Sensing Antiquity: New Approaches to Ancient Aesthetics and Sensoria
Fall 2013
ARCH 1234 Lost Languages: The Decipherment and Study of Ancient Writing Systems (ANTH 1820)
ARCH 1715 Building Big! Supersized Architectural and Engineering Structures From Antiquity
Spring 2013
ARCH 2335 In the Wake of Empire: Anatolia after the Hittites, before Alexander
AWAS 2900 Introduction to Hittite Language and Literature
Fall 2012
ARCH 1835 Inventing the Past: Amulets, Heirlooms, Monuments, Landscapes
Spring 2012
ARCH 1715 Building Big! Supersized Architectural and Engineering Structures From Antiquity
Fall 2011
ARCH 2165 The “Second Sophistic”: Archaeological and Literary Approaches
Andrew Scherer
Spring 2025
ANTH 0310 Human Evolution
Fall 2024
ANTH 1720 The Human Skeleton
Fall 2023
ANTH 2560 Lived Bodies, Dead Bodies: The Archaeology of Human Remains
Spring 2023
ANTH 0310 Human Evolution
ANTH 1730 Violence of the Past
Fall 2022
ANTH 1720 The Human Skeleton
On leave
Peter van Dommelen
Spring 2025
ANTH 1126 Ethnographies of Heritage: Community and Landscape of the Mediterranean and Beyond
Fall 2024
ARCH 0230 Myriad Mediterraneans: Archaeology, Representation and Decolonization
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2024
On leave
Fall 2023
On leave
Spring 2023
ARCH 1155 Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean
Fall 2022
ARCH 2157 Subaltern Communities: Archaeological Perspectives Beyond Domination and Resistance
Spring 2022
ANTH 1145 Bandits and Barbarians: Exploring Subaltern Resilience and State Power
Fall 2021
ARCH 0230 Myriad Mediterraneans: Archaeology, Representation and Decolonization
Spring 2021
On leave
Fall 2020
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2020
ARCH 2105 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Fall 2019
ARCH 0530 Hannibal ad Portas! Fact and Fiction on Carthage and the Punic World
Spring 2019
ANTH 1126 Ethnographies of Heritage: Community and Landscape of the Mediterranean and Beyond
Fall 2018
ARCH 2630 Global Romans and Indigenous Persistence
Spring 2018
ARCH 2102 Postcolonial Matters: Material Culture between Colonialism and Globalization
Fall 2017
ARCH 0415 Of Chiefs, Princesses and Warriors: Exploring Different Iron Ages
Fall 2016
ANTH 1145 Bandits and Barbarians: Exploring Subaltern Resilience and State Power
Spring 2017
ARCH 2105 Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology
Fall 2015
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2016
ARCH 1155 Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean
Fall 2014
ARCH 0725 Great Migrations: Mobility, Displacement and Material Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean
ANTH 1126 Archeological Ethnographies: Heritage and Community in the Mediterranean
Spring 2015
ARCH 0530 Hannibal ad Portas! Fact and Fiction on Carthage and the Punic World
ARCH 2157 Subaltern Communities: Archaeological Perspectives Beyond Domination and Resistance
Fall 2013
ANTH 0066T Postcolonial Matters: Material Culture between Colonialism and Globalization
ARCH 1680 Exploring Different Iron Ages: Of Chiefs, Princesses and Warriors
Spring 2014
ARCH 2230 Material Networks: Migration and Trade in the Ancient West Mediterranean
Fall 2012
ARCH 2245 Rural Landscapes and Peasant Communities in the Mediterranean
Spring 2013
ARCH 0530 Hannibal ad Portas! Fact and Fiction on Carthage and the Punic World
ARCH 1155 Cities, Colonies and Global Networks in the Western Mediterranean
Parker VanValkenburgh
Spring 2025
HMAN 2402B Empire: Global Perspectives
Fall 2024
ANTH 1201 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis
On leave
Spring 2023
ANTH 1505 Vertical Civilization: South American Archaeology from Monte Verde to the Inkas
Fall 2022
ANTH 0500 Past Forward: Discovering Anthropological Archaeology/ARCH 0100 Field Archaeology in the Ancient World
ANTH 2501 Principles of Archaeology
John F. Cherry
Spring 2021
CLAS 0210 O Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2240 Key Issues in Mediterranean Prehistory
Fall 2020
On leave
Spring 2020
On leave
Fall 2019
CLAS 0810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Spring 2019
On leave
Fall 2018
CLAS 1120Q The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
ARCH 2020E Economy and Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Spring 2018
ARCH 1175 Archaeology Matters! Past Perspectives on Modern Problems
Fall 2017
CLAS 0210 O Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2010B Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World
Spring 2017
CLAS 0810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
Fall 2016
CLAS 0210L Who Owns the Classical Past?
ARCH 2240 Key Issues in Mediterranean Prehistory
Spring 2016
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Fall 2015
CLAS 1120Q The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
ARCH 2010G Ethical Issues in Archaeology
Spring 2015
CLAS 0210 O Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2020E Economy and Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Fall 2014
CLAS 0810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
ARCH 2010B Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World
Spring 2014
ARCH 1707 The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (CLAS 1120Q)
ARCH 2295 State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean
Fall 2013
On leave
Spring 2013
On leave
Fall 2012
ARCH 1551 Who Owns the Classical Past? (CLAS 1120 O)
ARCH 2240 Key Issues in Mediterranean Prehistory
Spring 2012
ARCH 1707 The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (CLAS 1120Q)
ARCH 2010G Ethical Issues in Archaeology
Fall 2011
ARCH 0201 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 1050 Old World and New World Perspectives in Archaeology
Spring 2011
ARCH 0801 Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition (CLAS 0810A)
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Fall 2010
ARCH 0201L Who Owns the Classical Past? (CLAS 0210 L)
ARCH 2020E Economy and Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Spring 2010
ARCH 0201 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 1050 Old World and New World Perspectives in Archaeology
Fall 2009
ARCH 801 / CLAS 810A Alexander the Great and the Alexander Tradition
ARCH 2010B Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World
Spring 2009
CLAS 0210L Who Owns the Classical Past?
ARCH 2350 Archaeology of the Caucasus
Fall 2008
On leave
Spring 2008
ARCH 0200 Sport in the Ancient Greek World
ARCH 2250 Island Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Fall 2007
On leave
Spring 2007
AE0155 Who Owns the Classical Past?
AE0202 Economy & Trade in the Later Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean
Fall 2006
AE0080 Alexander the Great & the Alexander Tradition
AE0201 S01 Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World