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Jeffrey Becker

Mediterranean archaeologist (Archaeology not elsewhere classified)

Binghamton NY USA

Jeffrey Becker is a Mediterranean archaeologist. Becker has held teaching positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The College of William & Mary, Boston University, McMaster University, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, and the University of Mississippi. Additionally, Becker served as Acting Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an Associate Editor of the Pleiades Project and contributing editor for Etruscan and Roman art at Smarthistory.org. Becker is a veteran of archaeological fieldwork in Italy, notably on the Palatine Hill in Rome with Clementina Panella and the University of Michigan's project at Gabii in Central Italy. He is currently a part-time lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Binghamton University - SUNY. At Binghamton, he teaches courses in Mediterranean archaeology and Graeco-Roman art history

Publications

  • Roman republican villas : architecture, context, and ideology ISBN: 9780472117703
  • A new plan for an ancient Italian city: Gabii revealed ISSN: 0002-9114
  • The building blocks of empire : civic architecture, central Italy, and the Roman Middle Republic OCLC: 252073200
  • The rediscovery of the Villa delle Grotte at Grottarossa and the prehistory of Roman villas.
  • Review of W. Regter, Imitation and Creation: Development of Early Bucchero Design at Cerveteri in theSeventh Century B.C. Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 2003.
  • An Architectural Reappraisal of the Roman Villa at Grottarossa (vocabolo Monte delle Grotte) OCLC: 51796275
  • Pleiades Project

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