Diane Bolger
Honorary Fellow; Archaeology
Room 1M.30, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 4140Biography
I am a native New Yorker and received my undergraduate degree in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and my Ph.D. in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Cincinnati in 1985. My doctoral dissertation was a detailed contextual analysis of excavated material from a Chalcolithic site in Cyprus dug during the 1930s but never fully published. Since that time I have returned to the island on an annual basis as a ceramics specialist for a number of excavation projects and have published widely on the ceramics of the island’s prehistoric cultures. I have just completed eleven seasons of fieldwork at Souskiou-Laona, a setttlement/cemetery complex near Paphos dating to the late 4th-early 3rd millennia BC. I have also had extensive field experience in Syria as a ceramics specialist for the University of Edinburgh’s excavations at Jerablus-Tahtani. From 1985-2002 I was a member of the academic staff of the University of Maryland’s European Division in Heidelberg, Germany, serving initially as a lecturer and later as an associate professor. In 2002 I was appointed as a research fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, where I continue to work as a data manager for the publication of our various excavation and survey projects in Cyprus and Syria; I also teach courses in SHCA on Cypriot archaeology and the archaeology of gender.
External appointments
I have just completed a four year stint as a member of the Committee of Management for the Council for British Research in the Levant, a non-renewable four year post which I held from 2007-2010. I have recently been invited to join the CBRL’s Publications Committee, a post I will take up at the beginning of 2012.