DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND

ART HISTORY FACULTY

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office:  402 Olmsted Hall

Mailing address: Department of Archaeology and Art History,

                        1800 Lincoln Ave., Evansville, IN 47722

Telephone:  (812) 488-1049

Fax:  (812) 474-4079

Email:  ak58@evansville.edu

COURSES TAUGHT

ARCH 106 Introduction to Roman Archaeology

ARCH 307 Roman Architecture

ARCH 309 The Etruscans

ARCH 320 Pompeii

ARCH 340 Archaeological Field Methods            

HIST 312 Evolution of Rome

LATN 111 Elementary Latin I

LATN 112 Elementary Latin II

LATN 211 Intermediate Latin I

LATN 212 Intermediate Latin II

WC 110 World Cultures

Taking a break from research at Ostia in the shadow of the Horrea (warehouse) of Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana.

New!  Click here to visit Olynthus 1931:  The Mary Ross Ellingson Photo Archive. 

See never-before published pictures University of Evansville professor Ellingson took in 1931 while participating in excavations at the site of Olynthus.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT 

I am currently conducting research for a future book on Roman urban space.  I have created digital maps of some of the best preserved, excavated, and published Roman cities around the Mediterranean including Pompeii, Ostia, Empúries, and Silchester based on published information as well as my own observations on the ground.  Using a Geographic Information Systems computer program as well as various statistical techniques created by modern urban geographers, I am searching for similarities in the use of space between these and other Roman cities.  These similarities will give us insight into the thought processes of the elite and non-elite people who created the Roman cityscapes we know from both archaeological and literary sources.

 Excavating at Villamartín, Cádiz, Spain.

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                  

Ph.D.  Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, May 1999. 

B.A.   History and Anthropology, cum Laude; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 1989.

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Spain

Assistant Director, Boston University’s Cádiz Archaeological Field School, June 1997 to Aug. 2000.  Exploration of an Iron Age and Roman settlement as well as a Medieval cemetery through excavation and remote sensing (magnetometry). 

Staff Member, Boston University’s Empúries Archaeological Field School, Sept. 1995‑May 1997.  Investigation of Roman urbanism through excavation, remote sensing (magnetometry), and GIS.

Excavator, 49th Curso de Arqueología, Conjunt Monumental d’Empúries, July 1995.  Excavation of early Imperial Roman forum.

Greece

Staff Member, Boston University’s Nikopolis Regional Survey Project, May‑July 1994.  Regional survey of northwestern Epirus.  Click here to learn about the recent publication of this project.

St. Kitt's and Nevis

Trench Supervisor, Nevis Synagogue Project, July 1997.  Excavation of purported site of 17th century synagogue.  Click here to learn more about the project.

United States

Director, MLK Dream Park Project, Evansville, Indiana, August 2002 – present.  Exploration of the 19^th century Wabash and Erie Canal through aerial photography and excavation.  Click here to learn more about this project.

Director, University of Evansville Tin City Project, Evansville, Indiana, January 2003 – present.  Historical and archaeological exploration of the post-WWII veteran student housing.  Click here to go to the project website.

Click here to go to a Crescent article about this project.