Research on technology has long prioritized tools over containers, privileging action, agency, and intervention—traits culturally coded as masculine—over receptivity, support, and relational capacity. …

Over the past twenty years the mounting environmental crisis of global scale has led many scholars to question the dominant anthropocentric models of interpretation inherited …

Over the past twenty years the mounting environmental crisis of global scale has led many scholars to question the dominant anthropocentric models of interpretation inherited …

Greek and Roman technology comprises a diverse body of theories and practical skills that were harnessed to intervene in the material environment, alleviate its uncertainties …

How can material culture help us understand how people in the past planned for their futures? And why should we be interested in this question? …

Academic thinking has always been in active dialogue with changing social, cultural, and political contexts. Many current modes of scholarly thought, which are employed broadly …

From works of ancient mythography (Hesiod’s Works and Days) to modern archaeology (Thomsen’s Three-Age system), metals have long been considered a central feature …

For much of antiquity Athens was one of the foremost cities of the Mediterranean world, famed for its power and creativity. Modern accounts tend to …

For much of antiquity Athens was one of the foremost cities of the Mediterranean world, famed for its power and creativity. Modern accounts tend to …

Over the past few decades, and especially over the past few years, digital technologies have changed our world from how we communicate, to how we …

Over the past few decades, digital technologies have changed our world fromhow we communicate to how we conduct research to even how we understand what …

The emergence of fully mobile lifeways is one of the most distinctive features of the Eurasian steppe belt of the first millennium BC. Current scholarship …

This two-semester, team-taught course introduces incoming students to major historical developments in decorative arts, design, and material culture from antiquity to the present. Monday evening …

The standard textbooks of ancient art tend to present its history either in narratives concentrating on great artists and their inventions or as a succession …

The standard textbooks of ancient art tend to present its history either in narratives concentrating on great artists and their inventions or as a succession …

Ever since their inception in classical Greece, lifelike freestanding statues representing real or ideal human forms have been prized as expressions of cultural, religious, aesthetic, …