James C. Wright
Professor and Chairman, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology: Aegean prehistory and Greek archaeology, spatial theory, archaeological theory and method.
Ph.D.: Bryn Mawr College 1978
Director, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2012-2017.
Office: Thomas Hall 227
Phone: 610/526-5340
Email:
jwright@brynmawr.edu
Research Interests:
Pre- and protohistoric Aegean; Greek architecture and urbanism; land-use and settlement; method and theory, GIS and cultural geography
Recent Publications:
Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age: Our Way Forward, Invited Response to Papers, The 2007 Langford Conference: Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age (Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007), edited by D. J. Pullen, under review.
Co-editor, MESOHELLADIKA (Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, Greece, March 8-12, 2006), two volumes, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique. Supplément. Paris, 2009.
Towards a Social Archaeology of Middle Helladic Greece, in Co-editor, MESOHELLADIKA (Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, Greece, March 8-12, 2006), two volumes, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique. Supplément. Paris, 2009.
Chamber Tombs, Family, and State in Mycenaean Greece, in ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΟΙ. Studies presented to Bill Cavanagh and Chris Mee for their contribution to Aegean Archaeology, editors Chrysanthi Gallou, Mercouris Georgiadis and Gina Muskett, pp. 144-153. British Archaeological Reports (BAR), International Series, 1889. 2008.
2006-2007 Excavations of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira, Ancient Nemea, Robert Angus K. Smith, Evangelia Pappi, Mary K. Dabney, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, James C. Wright, Aegean Archaeology 8 (2005-06), pp. 1-15.
