Gale Visiting Professorship

Discovering the Hellenic world within and beyond Greece

Each year the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA) brings a Visiting Professor to tour Australia

Our Visiting Professorship programme brings to Australia a distinguished scholar of Hellenic studies to undertake a national lecture tour to our Institutional Members over August and September each year.

Thanks to the generosity of Janet Gale, we are delighted to be able to continue our Visiting Professorship programme through 2027. Janet is a long-standing member of the AAIA who has championed our endeavours. We are exceptionally grateful for her continued support of the Institute in promoting classical studies in Australia.

Our 2024 Visiting Professor is Professor Philipp Stockhammer. Professor Stockhammer is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. His research focuses on the transformative power of intercultural encounters, social practices, and the integration of archaeological and scientific data concerning social belonging, mobility, food and health.

A History of the Visiting Professorship

From its foundation in 1987, the Visiting Professorship has been generously supported by a number of individuals. These include Mr Sidney Londish; Mr Peter Burrows; Professor John Chalmers; Mr Michael Diamond; Mr Timothy Harding; Mrs Pauline Harding; Dr Robert Harper; Dr Monica Jackson; and Professor J.A. Young. In addition, the Visiting Professorship has been supported the Thyne Reid Foundation. We thank our sponsors for their generosity, commitment and support.

The AAIA 2024 Visiting Professor is Professor Philipp W. Stockhammer

Professor Philipp Stockhammer is a Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich. He is also co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. His research focuses on the transformative power of intercultural encounters, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific data concerning social belonging, mobility, food and health. His regional emphasis spans central and southeastern Europe, the Aegean, and the eastern Mediterranean.

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Past Visiting Professors

2020s

2023
Professor Reinhard Senff, Emeritus Director of the German Archaeological of the Ancient Olympia Excavations

2010's

2019 - Professor Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University

2018 - Professor Antonas Kotsonas, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (formerly based at the University of Cincinnati)

2017
Professor James C. Wright, American School of Classical Studies at Athens/Bryn Mawr College

2016
Professor Katja Sporn, German Archaeological Institute at Athens

2015
Professor John H. Oakley, The College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA

2014
Professor W. Jeffrey Tatum & Dr Diana Burton, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Professor Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland

2013
Professor Angelos Chaniotis, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton

2012
Professor Catherine Morgan, Director The British School at Athens

2011
Professor Jack Davis, Director of The American School of Classical Studies in Athens

2010
Professor Robert Laffineur, Department of Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Greece, The University of Liège

2000's

2009
Professor Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis, University of Crete, Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art

2008
Professor François Lissarrague, Director of the Louis Gernet Centre for the Comparative Study of Ancient Societies, Paris

2007
Professor Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens

2006
Professor Jacques Perreault, The University of Montreal, co-director of the Greek-Canadian Excavations at Argilos

2005
Professor Panagiota (Nota) Kourou, Professor of Early Iron Age Aegean Archaeology, The University of Athens

2004
Professor Marc Waelkens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2002
Assoc. Professor Barbara Burrell, University of Cincinnati and Proffessor Graeme Clarke, Australian National University

2001
Prof. Andrew Stewart, University of California, Berkeley

2000
Professor John McKesson Camp II, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece

1990's

1999
Professor H. Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

1998
Professor Sarah Morris University of California, Los Angeles USA and Dr J. K. Papadopoulos The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, USA

1997
Dr Hermann Kienast, German Archaeological Institute, Athens, Greece

1996
Professor Erika Simon Würzburg, Chair of Class Archaeology University of Würzburg, Germany

1995
Professor Spiros Iakovides, University of Athens, Greece

1994
Professor John Barron, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London

1993
Professor Helmut Kyrieleis, Director German Archaeological Institute Athens

1992
Professor Brunilde Sismondo-Ridgway, Rhys Carpenter Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

1990
Professor Christos Doumas, University of Athens, Greece

1980's

1989
Professor Nicolas Coldstream, Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University College London

1988
Professor Lilly Kahil, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

1987
Professor John Boardman, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford, England