Jennie Ebeling, PhD
Assistant Professor of Archaeology

With a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Arizona in the archaeology of the Near East, Jennie Ebeling has spent every summer in Israel since her junior year in college either working in the field at Hazor, in laboratories, or in museum storerooms. Professor Ebeling received a Fulbright fellowship and other competitive grants to support dissertation and postgraduate work in Israel and Jordan. Her publications include journal articles, an edited volume on ground stone studies, ground stone specialists' reports, and entries in biblical and archaeological encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Professor Ebeling teaches core courses 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
Assistant 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 field techniques course. The most recent excavation was on the Evansville campus, at the site of the post-WWII "Tin City."

Heidi Strobel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Archaeology

Heidi Strobel earned a Doctor of Philosophy in art history from the University of Illinois. Her primary field is European art from 1750 to 1900, with additional interests in Asian art and twentieth-century American artist William Gropper.

Professor Strobel has an ongoing interest in gender and women's studies and is an active member of the Gender and Women's Studies Committee at UE. In her dissertation research on Queen Charlotte of England, she focused on the relationships between female artists and the queens who encouraged them. Recent publications include articles on twentieth-century British sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the American icon Rosie the Riveter. She is currently researching Evansville area Rosie the Riveters.

Professor Strobel supervises student internships at the following local museums: the Reitz Home Museum; the Audubon Museum and Nature Center; the Children's Museum of Evansville, and the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science.

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.