Carla M. Antonaccio

Professor of Classical Studies and Archaeology
331 Exley Science Center
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut 06459

Telephone:     860.685.2070 (department)                                                       Link to:              Fieldwork
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Secretary, Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and
Member (ex-officio) of the Executive Committee (1998-2008)

Co-Director, Morgantina Project (Enna Province, Sicily) [link to official site, in Italian]

Education

Wellesley College 1976-80 B.A., Classical Archaeology
Dartmouth College 1979 Foreign Study, Europe, Greece, Turkey
Princeton University 1983 M.A., Classical Archaeology
Princeton University 1987 Ph.D., Classical Archaeology


Goethe Institut (Germany) 1984 Zertifikat, Deutsch als Fremdsprache
American School of Classical Studies (Athens) Associate Member 1985-86, 1989, 1992, 1998

Employment

Duke University, Department of Classical Studies
Visiting Professor, 2003
Visiting Scholar, spring 2004

Wesleyan University, Department of Classical Studies
Professor, 2000-
Associate Professor, 1995-2000
Assistant Professor 1988-95

Princeton University
Department of Art and Archaeology, Lecturer, 1987-1988
Department of Classics, Assistant in Instruction, Spring-Fall 1987


Fieldwork


Halieis Excavations (Porto Cheli, Greece)
Volunteer, with supervisory role, 1979; Study Assistant 1980


Agora Excavations (Athens, Greece)
Volunteer, 1982

Princeton Cyprus Expedition (Polis tis Chrysochou, Cyprus)
Excavation Staff, 1983

Morgantina Project (Aidone, Sicily)
Co-Director (with Malcolm Bell, University of Virginia), 1990 -

Major honors and awards

Wellesley College Scholar, 1980
American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, 1991, 1997
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1992
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education Grant (through Perseus Project), 1994-96
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1994
Center for Hellenic Studies, Junior Fellowship, 1995-96
W.M. Keck Humanities Computing Project Faculty Mentor, 1996
National Humanities Center, NEH Fellow, 1999-2000

Publications

[Not including book reviews]

An Archaeology of Ancestors: Greek Tomb and Hero Cult (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches), G. Nagy, ed. Rowman & Littlefield (1995)
Reviews: J. Whitley, AJA 99, 1995, 740-741; A. Farnoux, Topoi 6, 1996, 226-231; E. Polome, Journal of Indo-European Studies 24, 1996, 177


Terraces, Tombs, and the Early Argive Heraion, Hesperia 61, 1992, 85-105
Style, Reuse, and Context in a Roman Portrait at Princeton, Archäologische Anzeiger 1992, 441-452
Tomb and Hero Cult in Early Greece: the Archaeology of Ancestors, in Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece, C. Dougherty, L. Kurke, eds. Cambridge (1993) 46-70
Contesting the Past: Tomb Cult, Hero Cult, and Epic in Early Greece, American Journal of Archaeology 98, 1994, 389-410
Placing the Past: the Bronze Age in the Cultic Topography of Early Greece, in Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece, S. Alcock, R. Osborne, eds. Oxford (1994) 79-104
with J. Neils: A New Graffito from Archaic Morgantina, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 101, 1995, 261-77
Homer and Lefkandi, in Homer's World, Fiction, Tradition, Reality, Ø. Andersen, M. Dickie, eds. Bergen (1995) 5-27
Sicily, in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, B. Fagan, ed. Oxford (1996), 645-646
Hadrianic Sculpture, World Dictionary of Art, Macmillan (1996) vol. 27, 37-39
The Archaic Settlement at Morgantina, Sicily, Acta Hyperborea 7, 1997, 167-193
Colonization and the Origins of Hero Cult, Ancient Greek Hero Cult R. Hägg, ed. Jonsered (1999) 109-121
Kypara, a Sikel Nymph? Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 126, 1999, 177-185
An Archaic Stele from Morgantina, Kadmos 38, 1999, 87-96
Building Gender into Greek Houses, Classical World 93.5, 2000, 517-33
Colonization and Acculturation, Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, I. Malkin, ed. Harvard University Press (2001) 113-157
 Warriors, Traders, Ancestors: the ‘Heroes’ of Lefkandi,  Images of Ancestors (Århus Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 5) J. Munk Høtje, ed. Århus 2002: 13-42

Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture,  The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration,C. Dougherty, L. Kurke, eds. Cambridge University Press 2003: 57-74

Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily,  Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, K. Lomas, ed.  Leiden: E.J. Brill  2004: 55-81

Excavating Colonization,  Approaches to Ancient Colonization: Analogy, Similarity and Difference, S. Owen, H. Hurst, ed. (Duckworth, in press 2004)

Elite mobility in the west, Athletics, festivals, sanctuaries, elite mobility and epinikian poetry S. Hornblower, C. Morgan eds. (Oxford University Press, in press 2004)

Colonization: Greece on the Move,  The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, H. A. Shapiro, ed. (Cambridge University Press, submitted)

Religion, basileis, and heroes,  From Wanax to Basileus, I. Lemos, I. Deger-Jalkotzy, eds. (University of Edinburgh Press, submitted)

The Western Mediterranean,  The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World,  H. van Wees, K. Raaflaub, eds. (under contract)

Votive Offerings as Sacrificial Behavior,  Chthonic and Olympian Sacrifice, R. Hägg, ed. (in press 2004)

Refereed Papers


The Mycenaean Tombs of the Argolid and Geometric 'Hero Cult' AIA Annual Meeting, 1986



Early Greek Art and the East: Beyond Stylistic Analysis, CAA Annual Meeting, 1990

Kleos, time, poetry, cult: Archaeology and Heroes in Immortal Mortals: Heroic Ideology in Greek Myth & Cult, co-organizer, APA Annual Meeting, 1990

Territory, Competition, Community, and the Early Argive Heraion, AIA Annual Meeting, 1991

Writing and Naming at Archaic Morgantina, in panel on Archaic Morgantina (organizer) AIA Annual Meeting, 1992

The Genealogy of Gifts in Early Greece, CAA Annual Meeting, 1993

Ethnicity and Ceramics in Post-Colonial Sicily, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, February 1998

Pottery as Cultural Artifact: Greeks, Natives, and Pottery in Interior Sicily, 700-450 B.C. in colloquium Pottery 2001, A. Berlin, organizer, Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2001

with S. Thompson, Sanctuaries and Social Organization in the Sicilian Interior during the Archaic Period in colloquium Exploration of the Sikel Heartland, B. McConnell, organizer, Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2001

Invited Papers


The Worship and Worshippers of Hera, Wellesley College, February 1989


Tomb and Hero Cult in Early Greece: the Archaeology of Ancestors, Wellesley College, October 1990
The Uses of Greek Memory, AIA, Hartford, November 1990
Greeks and Sikels at Archaic Morgantina, AIA, Charlottesville, March 1992; New Haven, April 1995; Princeton University, October 1995
Romans and Greeks at Morgantina, ClassConn Annual Meeting, Storrs, CT, Nov. 1992
The Archaeology of Myth, Fairfield University, Fairfield, November 1993
Homer and Lefkandi, Norwegian Institute at Athens, December 1993; Revised: Aegean Seminar, Institute of Fine Arts, April 1994; Princeton University, October 1995, University of Cincinnati, February 1996; University of Virginia, April 1996; Harvard University, December 1997
Building Gender into Greek Houses, Florida State University, March 1994
The Archaic Settlement at Morgantina, Sicily, University of Copenhagen, May 1994
Hero Cult in Colonial Sicily, Göteborg University, April 1995
Votive Offerings as Sacrificial Behavior, Göteborg University, April 1997
Colonization and Acculturation, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC August 1997
Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily
in conference Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, K. Lomas, organizer, University of Newcastle, July 1999; SUNY Buffalo, October 2000
Warriors, Traders, Ancestors: the "Heroes" of Lefkandi in conference Images of Ancestors, L. Hannestad, J. Høtje Munk, University of Århus, August 1999; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, October 1999
Excavating Colonization University of North Carolina at Greensboro, February 2000 ; North Carolina Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, March 2000; SUNY Buffalo, October 2000; University of Cambridge, England, March 2001; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2004

Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture in conference The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, Wellesley College, November 2000

The Archaeology of basileia, Duke University, Department of Classical Studies, March 2002

From Barbarians and Mixo-Hellenes to Hybridity and Creolization: About 'ethnicity' in Greek antiquity, Columbia University Seminar in Classical Civilization, April 2002

Elite mobility in the west,  in seminar Athletics, festivals, sanctuaries, elite mobility and epinikian poetry, S. Hornblower, C. Morgan, organizers, University College London, November 2002

Religion, basileis, and heroes in From Wanax to Basileus (3rd A. G. Leventis Conference) Department of Classics, University of Edinburgh, January 2003

Work In Progress


“(Re)Defining Ethnicity”
in De-classifying Hellenism, P. Euben, K. Bassi, eds. Duke University Press

More Graffiti from Archaic Morgantina (with J. Neils)

Morgantina Studies: The Archaic Settlement on the Cittadella, Princeton University Press

Excavating Colonization (under contract with University of Texas Press)

Archaeologies of Homer (invited proposal for Basil Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series; manuscript submission 2007)

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