Monday, December 3, 2018, 11 AM – 12:30 PM EST

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN START TIME -- 11:00 AM

Bonna Wescoat, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History

“Samothrace and Beyond:  Excavating the Secrets of the Ancient World”

Bonna Wescoat, who has been pursuing her work in archaeology on Samothrace since a student in 1977, was named Director of Excavations there in 2012.  She and her interdisciplinary team of scholars and students have done much to uncover the history and legacy of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods.  The value of these collaborative efforts was recognized when she was named the 2017 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. And this year, their value was recognized again when she won a $246,000 Getty Foundation Grant to facilitate further scholar-student research (with participants from many institutions and countries) from northern Greece into the regions of Thrace and the Black Sea. Who better to help us explore the seminal site she has explored for so many years already—and give us a glimpse of the Getty-funded work to come, both there and “Beyond the Northern Aegean”?