Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

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 Globalizatio​n

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