Jack L. Davis

Jack L. Davis is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Biography

Jack L. Davis has directed or co-directed regional archaeological projects in several areas of Greece, including the Nemea Valley, the island of Keos, and in Messenia near the Palace of Nestor. Davis is a recognized authority in the archaeology of the Aegean Islands. He has published reports on excavations on Keos and Melos, in collaboration with others. He is the author of "Review of Aegean Prehistory: The Islands of the Aegean" in "Aegean Prehistory: A Review", a collection of papers edited by Tracey Cullen for the Archaeological Institute of America. He has contributed to the as yet unpublished "Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age". His research interests also include the history and archaeology of Greece in the Ottoman and early modern periods, as well as the relationship of the history of Classical archaeology to nationalist movements in the Balkans.

Most Recent

Davis is currently serving a five year term (2007-2012) as the Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

In addition he has directed regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia, and is assisting his wife, Sharon Stocker, in a project to publish unpublished finds from Carl W. Blegen's excavations at the Palace of Nestor in the Provence of Messenia, Greece.

Books and Publications

*"Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece" (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2007). Hesperia Supplement 40 (edited with S. Davies).
*"Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino" (University of Texas Press 1998; Greek Translation 2004; second edition 2007)
*"Papers in Cycladic Prehistory" (Los Angeles 1979); Keos V. Ayia Irini: Period V (Mainz 1986)
*"Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands" (Los Angeles 1991), winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize.
*"Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino" (University of Texas Press 1998; also in Greek translation)
*"A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in Its Environs, and the Hora Museum" (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2001)
*"An Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century", Hesperia Supplement 34, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2005.

References

*http://www.ascsa.edu.gr
*http://classics.uc.edu/PRAP/
*http://classics.uc.edu/mrap/MRAP_en.html
*http://classics.uc.edu/nvap/