Archaeology or Art History Faculty Profile
Jennie Ebeling, PhD
Associate Professor of Archaeology
With a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Arizona in the archaeology of the Near East, Jennie Ebeling specializes in Syro-Palestinian archaeology. Her research focuses on the analysis of ground stone artifacts from Bronze and iron Age sites in Israel and Jordan, women in the ancient Near east, and ancient religion and cult. She has serves as a staff member of the Hazor excavations in Israel and is affiliated with a dozen other field and publication projects as a ground stone specialist. Her publications include edited volumes on ground stone studies and household archaeology and the book Women's Lives in Biblical Times (Continuum).
Professor Ebeling teaches core course in the archaeology curriculum and survey courses that focus on the archaeology of the Near East, Egypt, and Syria-Palestine. She also teaches upper-level seminar courses that focus on technology, religion, food and drink, and women in antiquity.
Alan Kaiser, PhD
Associate Professor of Archaeology
Alan Kaiser, who earned a Doctor of Philosophy in archaeology from Boston University, specializes in Roman archaeology and the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to site analysis. Among other sites, he has excavated at the Roman site of Empúries in Spain and has published a book about its spatial organization, The Urban Dialogue: An Analysis of the Use of Space in the Roman City of Empúries, Spain. Recently, he has been researching traffic patterns in Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy.
Professor Kaiser teaches courses in Roman and Etruscan archaeology, as well as courses in Roman history and Latin language. He has also conducted training excavations in connection with the archaeological field techniques course. The most recent excavation was on the Evansville campus, at the site of the post-WWII "Tin City."
Heidi Strobel, PhD
Associate Professor of Art History
Heidi Strobel earned a Doctor of Philosophy in art history from the University of Illinois. Her fields of specialization include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art and Asian art. Her dissertation research, which focuses on the promotion of eighteenth-century female artists by female patrons such as Charlotte, wife of King George III of England, is published as Herspace: Social Networking at the Court Queen Charlotte (Edwin Mellen Press). Other recent publications include articled on twentieth-century topics such as British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, Women's Scholarship of Women, American fold artist Howard Finster, and World War II icon Rosie the Riveter. She is currently researching Evansville —area Rosie the Riveters.
Professor Strobel supervises student internships at the following local museums: Reitz Home Museum; Audubon Museum and Nature Center; Children's Museum of Evansville, Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science; Angel Mounds; and Cultural Resource Analysts Inc.
Patrick Thomas, PhD
Associate Professor of Archaeology
Patrick Thomas earned a Doctor of Philosophy in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Despite his "classical" degree, his research focuses on Greek Bronze Age ceramics and the Greek Bronze and Dark Ages. Professor Thomas has excavated at sites in Egypt, Turkey, and Greece (most recently Mitrou and Panakton). His recent studies have focused on the ceramics of the Late Helladic III and Protogeometric periods of the Greek mainland.
Professor Thomas teaches a range of courses in Greek archaeology, European prehistory, ancient Greek history, and Latin language. In 2000 he received the Archaeological Institute of America's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and in 2002 he was the University's Teacher of the Year.
