Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology; Advisory Committee Member, Archaeology at Michigan
ratte@umich.eduArt History; Historical Archaeology; Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology; Classical Studies; Community Archaeology; Greek Archaeology; Roman Archaeology; Urban Archaeology; Anatolian Archaeology; Archaeology at Michigan
Areas of Expertise
- Greek and Roman art and archaeology
- Architecture and urbanism
- Archaeology of Anatolia
Research Topics
- Archaeology of western Anatolia in the first millennium BCE
- Archaeology of Notion; Hellenistic urbanism in western Anatolia
- Archaeology of Aphrodisias; public space in the Greek cities of the eastern Roman empire
- Archaeology of Vani; the social organization of Colchis in the first millennium BCE
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Courses
- Archaeology of Anatolia
- Theoretical Approaches to the Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World
- The Age of Alexander the Great
