The Tulane Department of Classical Studies presents the Dennis A Georges Lecture in Hellenic Culture
Reconstructing Early modern Landscapes of 18th Century Greece: Messenia from Ottoman and Venetian Sources
Dr. Jack Davis (University of Cincinnati)
Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 7PM in the Stone Auditorium (210 Woldenberg Art Center)
JACK L. DAVIS is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati. In Greece Professor Davis has directed archaeological regional studies projects on the island of Keos, in the Nemea Valley, and in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Messenia. He participated in the publication of excavations on Keos and on Melos and is an authority in the archaeology of the Aegean islands ("Review of Aegean Prehistory: The Islands of the Aegean," in T. Cullen [ed.], Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America) 19-94 and C. Shelmerdine [ed.], Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press) 186-208. Other research interests include the history and archaeology of Ottoman and early modern Greece and the history of Classical archaeology, in particular its relationship to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Currently Davis is directing regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia, and is also engaged in a project to publish unpublished finds from Blegen's excavations at the Palace of Nestor. His books include:Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979); Keos V. Ayia Irini: Period V (Mainz 1986); Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands (Los Angeles 1991), winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize; Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (University of Texas Press 1998); A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and the Hora Museum (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2001); An Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005); and Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007). His most recent book is Philhellenism, Philanthropy, or Political Convenience (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2013), coedited with Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan. Davis served as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 2007 until 2012.
