Professor Jack Davis on The New Greek Temple at Apollonia

The New Greek Temple at Apollonia: Excavations of a New Greek Temple: The Bonjakët Hamlet near Illyrian Apollonia By Professor Jack Davis Free Public Seminar -- Held on Tuesday 9 August 2011 at 1 pm Cultural Collections, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle, Australia Background: Jack Davis completed his undergraduate education at the University of Akron in 1972 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati in 1977. From there he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he taught until 1993. Since 1993 he has been a member of the faculty at the University of Cincinnati where he holds the post of Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology. Since 2007 he has been serving as Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Professor Davis has directed archaeological projects on the island of Keos, in the Nemea Valley, and in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Messenia. His research interests include the history and archaeology of Ottoman and early modern Greece and the history of Classical archaeology, in particular its relationship to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Currently Prof Davis is directing regional studies and excavations in Albania, in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Durrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia and he is also engaged in a project to publish unpublished finds from Blegen's excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. For more info: http://uoncc.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/public-lecture-professor-jack-davis-on-the-new-greek-temple-at-apollonia/