UC Classics Ancient World Podcasts

In the final interview of the 2012-2013 academic year, we hear from Morag Kersel, assistant professor of Anthropology at Depaul University, and co-director of the Galilee Prehistory Project in Israel and the Following the Pots Project in Jordan. In this discussion, Professor Kersel shares insights from her research on the trade in antiquities from the Middle East, her thoughts about looting, trafficking, and collecting ancient artifacts, and some of her experiences as a contractor for the U.S. Department of State. You can learn more about Professor Kersel’s exciting work in her new book, co-authored with Christina Luke, U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft In the final interview of the 2012-2013 academic year, we hear from Morag Kersel, assistant professor of Anthropology at Depaul University, and co-director of the Galilee Prehistory Project in Israel and the Following the Pots Project in Jordan. In this discussion, Professor Kersel shares insights from her research on the trade in antiquities from the Middle East, her thoughts about looting, trafficking, and collecting ancient artifacts, and some of her experiences as a contractor for the U.S. Department of State. You can learn more about Professor Kersel’s exciting work in her new book, co-authored with Christina Luke, U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage (Routledge Studies in Archaeology, 2013).Power, Hard Heritage (Routledge Studies in Archaeology, 2013).

In this podcast, Christian Cloke sits down with Brian Rose, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean collection of University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Professor Rose is a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome, the English-language editor of Studia Troica, former Vice President of the American Research Institute in Turkey, and former President of the Archaeological Institute of America, a position he held from 2007 to 2011. Currently he is the AIA’s 2012/2013 Joukowsky Lecturer, which brought him back to Cincinnati, where he taught in UC’s Classics department from 1987 to 2005.