James R. Wiseman
Professor of Archaeology

Education: PhD 1966, University of Chicago

Research Interests: Prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean, lithic technology.

My academic background is in the archaeology, art history, history, languages, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and I have taught courses in all of those fields. I have been active in archaeological field work for some thirty-five years, including the direction of archaeological excavations in Corinth, Greece, and Stobi, (Yugoslavian) Macedonia, as well as an interdisciplinary survey in southern Epirus, Greece. I am Founding Editor of the Journal of Field Archaeology (published by Boston University) and served as its Editor-in-Chief, 1974-85. As a Contributing Editor to Archaeology Magazine, 1995- , I write a regular column, "Insight," that appears in each issue. My primary research interests over the past fifteen years have been in the archaeology of the Roman Provinces, especially involving the relations between Romans and indigenous peoples, and especially in the East; trade and the economy during the Roman Empire; the archaeology of Greek and Roman Religion; town and countryside in classical antiquity; late antiquity in the eastern Mediterranean; and the application of scientific methods and techniques in archaeology.

Academic honors include: Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Missouri, College of Arts and Science, 1989; Gold Seal Award from the Archaeological Institute of America for "distinguished leadership, commitment and significant achievements as President" of the AIA, 1984-1988; election as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute; Annual Award in name of James R. Wiseman for Best Book on Archaeology, established by Archaeological Institute of America, 1987; Bromberg Award for Teaching Excellence (University of Texas), 1964.

Fellowships held include: Mellon Fellow and Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1990-1991; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1990; Fellow of Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Byzantine Studies, 1983-1984; Fellow of American Council of Learned Societies, 1967-1968, 1978-1979, 1990-91; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1971-1972; Senior Fellow of the Humanities Foundation, Boston University, 1985-86, 1996; and designated Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and the MacDonald Institute of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1997.

Grants for field work and university-related instruction and research include awards from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory for the Nikopolis (Greece) Project, National Geographic Society, NASA Earth Observing System, National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, Ford Foundation, University of Texas, W. M. Keck Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Representative Publications
Editor, Studies in the Antiquities of Stobi I (Belgrade 1973), II (Belgrade 1975), and (with Blaga Aleksova) III (Skopje, 1983).

The Land of the Ancient Corinthians. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 50 , Goteborg (1978).

Corinth and Rome I: 228 B.C. - 267 A.D., Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt II.7.1, H. Temporini and W. Haase, eds., Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York, pp. 438-548 (1979).

Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Potential for the Future Report on a Conference, March 1-2, 1984 , Earth Resources Laboratory, NSTL, Mississippi (with T. L. Sever, 1985).

Archaeology Today: From the Classroom to the Field and Elsewhere, American Journal of Archaeology 93:437-444 (1989).