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[email protected] THOMAS F. TARTARON Curriculum Vitae Present appointments • Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania; July 2012. • Chair, Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania; July 2012. • Consulting Scholar, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Mediterranean Section; July 2007. • Senior Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; August 2013. Research interests • Greek Bronze Age and Classical archaeology • Coastal archaeology • Regional-scale landscape archaeology and network approaches • Ethnoarchaeology • Ceramic petrography (thin-section pottery fabric analysis) and geoarchaeology • Archaeological method and theory • Ancient Greek history and literature, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the historians Education 1996 Ph.D., Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Dissertation Title: Bronze Age Settlement and Subsistence in Southwestern Epirus, Greece. 1992–1993 American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Colburn Fellow, Fulbright Fellow. 1981 B.A., International Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Previous professional experience 2006–2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 2000–2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. 1998–2000 Lecturer, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1996–1998 Postdoctoral Associate, CMRAE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1993−1996 Laboratory Supervisor and Teaching Assistant, CMRAE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Curriculum Vitae, Thomas F. Tartaron 4/15/2016 Archaeological field experience 2018–2019 Senior Staff Member, Yeronisos Island Expedition, Cyprus.