W. H. Collins Vickers Professor Emeritus, Archaeology; PhD, Princeton University
Alan Shapiro is a classical archaeologist who holds degrees in Greek and archaeology from Swarthmore College, UC Berkeley, and Princeton. He came to Hopkins in 1997 after jobs at Columbia, Tulane, and Canterbury (New Zealand), as well as visiting positions in Munich, Cape Town, Athens, and Shanghai. He was most recently Dietrich von Bothmer Research Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2020 to 2023. He has published widely on Greek art, history, and religion of the Archaic and Classical periods and organized exhibition of Greek art in New Orleans, Christchurch, New Zealand, and New York.
Current Interests: Greece, Athens, Archaeology, Mythology, Ceramics, Heroes, Theseus