People

Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona)

Eleni Hasaki is Professor of Anthropology and Classics at the School of Anthropology and Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona and the co-Director of the Laboratory for Traditional Technology. She is the author of Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth: Industry, Religion and the Penteskouphia Pinakes (Hesperia Supplement American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, 2021) and the co-editor of Reconstructing Scales of Production in the Ancient Greek World (Heidelberg, 2020). She has published on the craft technologies in Classical antiquity, the spatial organization of workshops, and craft apprenticeship, and experimental projects on ancient Greek ceramics. Her Digital Humanities projects on ancient Greek pottery production include WebAtlas of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece  and SNAP: Social Networks of Athenian Potters.  Funding for her research has been provided by NEH, Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, the Archaeological Institute of America, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art.

Diane Harris Cline (George Washington University)

Diane Harris Cline is an Associate Professor of history at George Washington University, and an ancient Greek historian and classical archaeologist. In her cross-disciplinary research, she is a pioneer in the digital humanities, applying social network analysis to study the social ties in ancient Greece.  Cline is the author of two books, The Treasures of the Parthenon and Erechtheion (Oxford) and The Greeks: An Illustrated History (National Geographic).  She has won two Fulbright awards for her research in Greece, where she also serves as an expert study leader for Smithsonian Journeys and National Geographic Expeditions.  With a B.A. in classics from Stanford and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Princeton, Cline has taught a wide range of courses on Greek and Roman history, archaeology, religion, mythology, literature, and culture. She has won several teaching awards. Cline has been a Fellow in Hellenic Studies at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and a Fulbright Scholar in Greece at the University of Crete, Rethymno.