CURRICULUM VITAE

2007

 

ANNA MARGUERITE McCANN

200 East 66th St.

Apt. B-2104

New York City

New York, 10021

Tel. (212) 752-2826; (802) 325-3387

E-Mail: ammccann@alum.wellesley.edu fax: 212-355-3104

  

Education:

            PhD in Art History and Classics, Indiana University, 1965

            M.A. in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1957

            B.A. in Art History and Classics, Wellesley College, 1954

 

Areas of Specialization:

            Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology: Roman Sculpture.

Underwater Archaeology: Ancient Harbors, Deep Sea Archaeology and Robotic Technology.

           

Present Positions:

Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, June,2007.

            Visiting Scholar, MIT, Dept. of Science, Technology and Society, 2001 to present.

            Archaeological Director, Tuscan Deep Water Survey with American Academy in Rome, and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici per la Toscana, 2001 to present.

            Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, Manchester, VT, advisory board, 2004-.

 

Teaching and Museum Employment:

             Adjunct Professor, Boston University, Dept. of Archaeology, 1997-2001.

            Guest Curator, Institute for Exploration, Mystic, CT, "Challenge of the Deep," with Mystic Aquarium, 1999.

            Visiting Professor, Classical Association of New England, Summer School, Dartmouth College, 1996.

            Visiting Professor, Williams College, 1994.

            Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, 1992.

            Visiting Professor, Trinity College, Hartford, 1989.

            Adjunct Professor, New York University, 1983-86.

             Curator, Dept. of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,  New York, 1974-75.

            Director, "Archaeology Around the World," Lecture Program, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974-76.

            Visiting Lecturer, University of CA., Berkeley, 1971-74.

            Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, 1966-71.

            Instructor, Swarthmore College, 1957-59.

 

Archaeological Fieldwork:

            Archaeological Director, Skerki Bank Deep Water Archaeology Project, 1989-2004.

            Archaeological Director, Tuscan Deep Water AUV Survey:  MIT, College Sea Grant Program, the Academy in Rome, and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Archaeologici per la Toscana, 2000-2003.

            Archaeological Director for the JASON Project, 1989.

            Director, Excavations and Publications of the Roman Port of Cosa, Italy, 1965-87.

            Co-Director, Underwater Excavations at the Etruscan Ports of Populonia and Pyrgi, with Prof. Nino Lamboglia, 1974.

            Director, Tuscan Port Survey, Italy, 1965-74.

            Member of Archaeological teams: Univ. of  PA, Bodrum, Turkey, 1967 and Taranto, Italy,  1965; Regia Excavation and Cosa town site, American Academy in Rome, 1965; Univ. of Chicago and Indiana, port of Kenchreai, Greece, 1963.

 

Special Honors, Grants, Committees, Memberships:

            Invited panelist, NOAA, Ocean Exploration, 2003, 2004.

            The Archaeological Institute of America, Gold Medal Award, 1998, for distinguished archaeological achievement.

            Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award, 1997.

            Burke Lecturer, Indiana University, 1996.

            Norton Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, 1994-95.

            James R Wiseman Book Award, the Archaeological Institute of America, 1989.

            Archaeological Institute of America: Trustee, 1977-1986,1989-1995; 1997-2000; Founder and Chair of Com. for Underwater Archaeology, 1985-98; Chair, Nominating Coms., 1977,1983, 1998; Co-Chair, Archives Com. 1991-94; Com. for Development, 1980 -; Com. for Archaeological Outreach, 1982- .

            Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, research grant, 1989-90.

            A.M. McCann and R.D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology, established by the Archaeological Institute of America, 1986.

            American Academy in Rome, Classical Society, President, 1974-76.

            National Endowment for the Humanities, research grants for work on the publication of the excavations of the Roman  port of Cosa, Italy, 1974-76; matching fund grants for excavations of port of Cosa, 1971-73.

            American Council of Learned Societies Grants, 1969,1973.

            Research and Travel Grants, Univ. of Missouri, 1968-70.

            Indiana Univ., Dissertation Grant, 1963-64.

            New York University, Tuition Fellowship, 1955-56.

            American Academy in Rome, Prize Fellow in Classical Studies, 1964-66.

            Fulbright Scholarship, American School of Classical Studies,  Athens, 1954-55.

            Phi Beta Kappa, 1954.

 

Memberships:

            Archaeological Institute of America; Institute for Nautical Archaeology; Marine Technology Society; Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum (Roman Pottery); Historic Shipwreck Management Research Team, Marine Policy Center, WHOI, and NOAA National Sea Grant College Program 1992-94; Society for Historical Archaeology.

 

Selected Publications:

            Books:

            Deep-Water Shipwrecks off Skerki Bank: The 1997 Survey, with J.P.Oleson. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. Ser. 58, 2004.

            The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa: A Short Guide, The American Academy in Rome Litografia Bruni, Pomezia, Rome 2002.

            Deep Water Archaeology, with J. Freed.  Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. Ser. 13, 1994.

            The Lost Wreck of the ISIS, with R.D. Ballard and R. Archbold. Scholastic/Madison Press Book, Toronto, 1990.

Award: Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, 1990.

            The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa, A.M.McCann et.al., Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987.

Awards: The James R. Wiseman Book Award, The Archaeological Institute of America 1989; American Association of University Presses, Outstanding Book 1987.

            Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1978.

Awards: American Association of University Presses, Outstanding Art Book Award, 1978; Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum, Outstanding Art Book Award, 1978.

            The Portraits of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211), (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 30) 1968.

            Pollini, J. (ed.), Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2005.

 

Articles:

            “The Isis shipwreck, Skerki Bank,” in S. Kingsley (ed.) Encyclopedia of Underwater Archaeology, vol.4, Barbarian Seas, Late Roman to Islam, 2004 (Periplus, London) 54-57.

            “Cosa and Deep Sea Exploration,” The Maritime World of Ancient Rome,  International Conference, American Academy in Rome, March 27-29, 2003, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Suppl. Ser., forthcoming.

            “Response to ‘Cosa’s Hydraulic Concrete: Towards a Revised Chronology’by E.K. Gazda,” The Maritime World of Ancient Rome, (Intenational Conference, the American Academy in Rome, March 2003) Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome,Suppl. Ser., forthcoming.

            “Skerki Bank: Archaeological Results, Methods and Recommendations,” M.I.T. International Conference on “Technology and Archaeology in the Deep Sea,” Jan,1999. Plenum Press, forthcoming.

            “Brody, A. and A. M. McCann, “Cargoes from the Deep,” Archaeology Odyssey, Jan. Feb. 2003, pp. 30- 39.

            “Roman Shipwrecks from the Wine Dark Sea,” John C. Rouman Lecture Series in Classical and Hellenic Cultures, University of New Hampshire, Oct. 17, 2001 (Durham 2002).

            “Skerki Wreck F: An Early Imperial Shipwreck in the Deep Sea off Sicily,” Rea Cretariae Romanae Fautores Acta, vol. 37, pp. 257-264.

            “Lamps and the Dating of Roman Shipwrecks,” in N. Goldman (ed.), New Light from Ancient Cosa: Classical Mediterranean Studies in Honor of Cleo Rickman Fitch, The American Academy in Rome, New York, (Peter Lang, Hermeneutics of Art Series) 2001, pp. 39-49.

            “The Discovery of Ancient History in the Deep Sea Using Advanced Deep Submergence Technology,” with R. D. Ballard, et.al., Deep- Sea  Research, Part 1, (2000), vol. 47, pp.1591-1620.

            “Amphoras from the Deep Sea: Ancient Shipwrecks between Carthage and Rome,” Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores Acta , vol. 36, (2000), pp. 443-448.

            “The Riace Bronzes: Gelon and Hieron I of Syracuse?” 13th International Bronze Conference, Harvard University, 1996. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2000, pp. 97-105.

            “Roman Shipwrecks from the Deep Sea: New Trade Route off Skerki Bank in the Mediterranean,” Context, Boston University, 1999, vol. 14, n.2, pp. 1-6.

            “The Roman Port of Cosa and a New Trade Route in the Deep Sea,” III Jornadas de Arqueología Subacuática, Puertos Antiguos y Comercio Marítimo, Valencia, Nov. 1997,Valencia, 1998,pp. 39-49.

            “Skerki Bank: A New Trade Route in the Deep Sea,” Society for Historical Archaeology, Program and Abstracts, Atlanta, GA., Jan 6-10, 1998, pp. 84-85.

            “Cosa; Hamilton and Scourge Shipwrecks; Isis; La Madonnina Shipwreck,” in J. P. Delgado (ed.), Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology (British Museum Press, 1997) pp. 113-115, 187, 207, 208, 237.

            "Underwater Archaeology," in N. de Grummond (ed.), An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology, (Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 1138-1141.

            "ROV's for Archaeology", Intervention/ROV'91.Conference Proceedings, Marine Technology Society, 1991, p.13.

            "Diving Into Our Past", World Ocean Floors: Atlantic Ocean, National Geographic Magazine, Jan. 1990.

            "The Roman Port of Cosa", Scientific American, 256,3 (March  1988) 102-109.

            "Beyond the Classical in Third Century Portraiture," Aufsteig und Niedergang der romischen Welt, 12,2, Berlin, 1981, pp. 623-645.

            "Campagna di Scavo Italo-Americana nelle Acque di Porto Baratti (Populonia)", Forma Maris Antiqui 10 (1973-74),Bordighera 1980, pp. 56-61, with N.Lamboglia; ibid.,"Campagna di  "Richerche Sottomarine Italo-Americana sul Porto Etrusco di Pirgi (Santa Severa)", pp. 61-67.

            "Underwater Excavations at the Etruscan Port of Populonia," Journal of Field Archaeology, 4 (1977) 275-296.

            "Underwater Excavations at the Etruscan Ports of Populonia and Pyrgi", Journal of Field Archaeology, 1 (1974) 398-402, with  J. Oleson.

            "Maria SS. di Altomare. A Fourth Century B.C. Shipwreck Near Taranto," Archaeology, 25 (1972), 180-187.

            "A Re-Dating of the Reliefs from the Palazzo della Cancelleria," Mitteilungen des deutschen archaeologischen Instituts,Romische Abteilung, 79 (1971) 249-276.

 

             Not Listed: 60 articles, reviews, some 150 papers or invited lectures and symposia.

 

In Process:

            Roman Wrecks and Ancient Harbors: The Dramatic Story of America’s First Woman Underwater Archaeologist.

 

Video and Television:

            "Skerki Bank Deep Sea Archaeology Project 1997," video ed. with T. Silva, WHOI, August, 1998.

            "Secrets of the Deep," National Geographic Explorer Series, Turner Broadcasting, April 26, 1998.

            "UTA Today," University of Texas, Arlington, October 19, 1994.

            "The JASON Project, May, 1989", with R.D. Ballard, National Geographic Explorer Series, Turner Broadcasting, Feb. 18, 1990.

            "Good Morning America," ABC, May, 1989.

            "The JASON Project: Deep Sea Archaeology, Robotic Technology and Telepresence," Video ed. with T.Silva, WHOI, Dec. 1989.

            "Diving into the Past: The Discovery and Excavation of the Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa", General Motors Research Laboratories Video, Detroit, Mich., 1988.

 

Recent Public Lectures and Symposia:

     “Trade and Roman Pottery; The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa,” Summer School in Roman Pottery, American Academy in Rome, June, 06, 07.

             Introduction for Gold Medal Award for Prof. Larissa Bonfante, AIA meeting, San Diego 2007.

             “A Case Study in the Ethics of Archaeology in International Waters,” round table discussion, AIA meeting, San Diego, 2007.

            “Underwater Archaeology: Exploring the Deep with Scuba, Robots and Subs,”  Kendal on the Hudson, April, 2007.

             "The Roman Port of Cosa and Exploration in the Deep Sea at Skerki Bank," Rutgers University, April 11, 06.

     “Great Underwater Discoveries: Ancient Ports and Ships; Art Treasures from the Sea,” Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, Manchester, Vt., August 2, 9, 05.

            “Roman Ports and Shipwrecks: Exploring with SCUBA, Robots and Subs,” Wellesley College, April, 05.

            “The Riaci Bronzes,” The Chapin School,  NYC, Feb. 16, 2005.

            “Ships, Ports and Deep Sea Archaeology: the Contributions of Lionel Casson,” AIA Annual Meeting, Boston, Jan. 8, 2005, Gold Medal Paper in honor of Prof. Lionel Casson.

            “Research on Harbors in the Greco-Roman World,” Chair, AIA Annual Meeting, Boston, Jan. 8, 2005.

            “Great Underwater Discoveries in the Mediterranean,” Cosmopolitan Club, NYC, Jan.11, 2005; Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning, Manchester, Vt., August 2005.

            "Skerki Bank Deep Water Shipwrecks”, Colony Club, NYC, Nov. 4, 2004.

            “My Career: Professional Problems with Men,” Cosmopolitan Club, NYC, June 29, 2004.

            “Roman Shipwrecks in the Deep Sea,” Conference in honor of Prof. Lionel Casson, Ships, Travel, Siegecraft, and Underwater Archaeology, New York University, May 1, 2004.

            “Roman Shipwrecks Found with Robots and Subs,” Wellesley College, April 20, 2004.

            “Cosa and Deep-Water Archaeology: Skerki Bank and the Tuscan Coastline,” AIA Meeting, San Francisco, Jan. 2004.

            “Exploring Ancient Harbors and Deep Sea Exploration,” New York Univercity, Classics Dept., 2003.

            “Cosa and Deep Sea Exploration,” International Conference, American Academy in Rome, March 27-29, Rome, 2003.

            “The Roman Port of Cosa and Skerki Bank,” RCRF International Conference, American Academy in Rome, Oct., 2002.

            “East Meets West in the Deep Sea off Skerki Bank,” MIT Conference, Technology, Archaeology and the Deep Sea, April 26, 2002.

            “Roman Shipwrecks from the Wine Dark Sea,” John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series, Univ. of  New Hampshire, Oct. 17,  2001; The Hermitage Foundation Auxiliary, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Jan. 14, 2002.

            “Roman Shipwrecks from the Deep Sea off Skerki Bank: A New Trade Route between Carthage and Rome,” AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, Jan. 6, 2001.

            “Sharing Underwater Archaeology,” AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, Jan. 5, 2001.

            “How I Got into Underwater Archaeology,” Wellesley College, May 1, 2001.

            “The Etruscan Seafarers,” MIT, May 2, 2001.

            “Organizer and Speaker for Symposium,” Great Undersea Discoveries from the Mediterranean,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 19, 2001.

            “Amphoras from the Deep Sea: Skerki Bank Wreck F, an Early Imperial Shipwreck,” RCRF International Conference, Lyon, France, Oct. 2000.

            “Il porto romano di Cosa,” May 20, 2000, Comune di Orbetello; la Soprintendenza archaeological della Toscana; l’Universita degli Studi della Tuscia; American Academy in Rome; Museo Civico Archaeologico di Grosseto.

            “Explorations at the Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa,” American Academy in Rome, May 23, 2000.

            “Exploring the Deep with Robots and Subs: Ancient Shipwrecks between Carthage and Rome,” Semitic Museum, Harvard University and Boston Society of AIA, Dec. 1999.

            “Skerki Bank: Archaeological Results, Methods and Recommendations,” MIT International Conference on Technology and Archaeology in the Deep Sea,” Jan. 1999.

            “Organizer and Speaker for Symposium,” Deep Water Archaeology and Hi-Technology,” Society for Historical Archaeology, annual meeting, Atlanta, Jan. 1998.

            “The Riace Bronzes: Gelon and Hieron I of Syracuse?” 13th International Bronze Congress, Harvard University, May, 1996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(rev. Feb 2007)