Aleydis Van de Moortel, Ph.D. '97, Archaeology, Awarded University of Tennessee Chancellor's Professorship

Aleydis Van de Moortel, Ph.D. '97, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology,has been awarded the University of Tennessee Chancellor's Professorship. The Chancellor's Professorship is the highest honor for distinguished faculty at the University of Tennessee, where she is Lindsay Young Professor and head of the Department of Classics. Professor Van de Moortel is the first faculty member of the Department of Classics at this institution to receive this distinction. 
 

Professor Van de Moortel's work focuses on the rise and decline of complex societies in the Bronze Age Aegean. She currently co-directs the Mitrou Archaeological Project in Central Greece. In 2018 she was kind enough to return to Bryn Mawr College to share part of her research with the Mitrou project in her talk "Shipbuilding, Seafaring, and Human Mobility in the Early Bronze Age Aegean: The Role of the East Aegean" as part of the ongoing Classics Colloquium lecture series. At Bryn Mawr,  Professor Van de Moortel studied Aegean Prehistory and archaeological method and theory with Professor Emeritus James C. Wright.