Archaeologist of Greece | Landscape Archaeologist | Material Culture Specialist
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at
Brown University
I am a founding member and former Assistant Director of the Metamedia Laboratory at Stanford. In 2005 I co-founded archaeolog.org, a weblog for all archaeologists, and archaeography.com, a photoblog dealing in all things archaeological.
Within archaeology, my research concentrates on landscape, material culture studies (I prefer things), emergent media in archaeology and the history of archaeology. These interests have three primary facets in my current postdoctoral research. First, my work articulates human and companion animal relations with the landscapes of Greece in general, and the Argolid in particular, over the very long term. From the development of agricultural practices in the Neolithic to pastoral economies and the dynamics of the Greek polis to contemporary land-use my work develops historical geographies of the Greek countryside. Second, my work explores the relationships of people and things, specifically in the context of ‘media’ (whether 2nd-century BCE inscriptions, 1st-century CE coins, or 18th-century maps) as developing modes of circulating actions and ideas. Third, my interests in archaeological practice have served as a springboard to revisiting core questions related to field methodologies in both excavation and survey. How do we produce an accurate portrayal of the material past? What constitutes a satisfactory interpretation? Such questions are the heart of my work in comparative histories of archaeology — with the Classical Topographer, William Martin Leake or the multi-disciplinary French Expédition Scientifique de Morée — and, perhaps not surprisingly, they have led me to address issues related to the reception of the Greco-Roman past in late 18th and early 19th century Europe whether in Greece or Sicily, London or Paris.
My current book projects include:
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching (here are some links to my course wikis)
Select Projects
e-Publication
- Archaeography (a collective archaeological photoblog)
- Chaisme (softbooks through Metamedia)
- Archaeolog (a collective archaeological blog dealing with all things archaeological)
- Philolog (a collective archaeological blog of connections, commentary, and critique of Classical literature)
video production
- The Garbology of Us with Bill Rathje
- other video work [link]
events
Contact
no spam
cwitmore(at)gmail.com or
cwitmore(at)brown.edu
Posted at Dec 29/2007 11:59AM:
chris witmore: Add info about Anglo-American Antiquarians
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