Stuart Swiny
Stuart Swiny, Associate Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, received his doctorate in Cypriot archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 1979. Since excavating in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s his research has focused on the eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus with emphasis on early island colonization, the emergence of complex society, the development of cult and ritual, archaeometallurgy, lithic and ceramic analysis. In 2001 he published the proceedings of a conference held at Albany two years earlier, The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus: From Colonization to Exploitation. American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), Boston. The same year appeared his chapter in An ASOR Mosaic (Ed. J. Seger, ASOR Publications, Boston) "The House of the Dancing Bird. A History of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus." In 2003 he co-edited with George R. Rapp and Ellen Herscher the final excavation report of his Early Bronze Age excavations: Sotira Kaminoudhia, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus, ASOR, Boston. Professor Swiny teaches the art and archaeology of Cyprus from prehistory to the present, both at the undergraduate and graduate level; the history of Ancient Greece; Islamic art and architecture; the art and architecture of the ancient world up to the Etruscans. He offers graduate seminars focusing on the Classical period in Greece and archaeological graphic documentation. He also directs field schools in archaeological surveying and excavation on the island of Cyprus.
