The Director in Nicosia reports to a board of trustees composed largely of U.S. citizens, who provide substantive, financial and administrative oversight and direction. The board of trustees combines a roster of persons with academic, government, international organizations, business, finance, and high tech experience.

Raymond C. Ewing served as United States ambassador to Cyprus from 1981 to 1984 and to Ghana from 1989 to 1992.

Ambassador Ewing's other assignments during a 36 year career in the Foreign Service were in Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria, with the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency; Lahore, Pakistan; Rome, Italy; Bern, Switzerland as Counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs; and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as Charge D'Affaires, ad interim. In the Department of State in Washington, D.C., he served in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, as Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs (Cyprus, Greece and Turkey) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary; the Foreign Service Institute, as Dean of the School of Language Studies; and the Bureau of Human Resources, as Director of the Office of Foreign Service Career Development and Assignments. Ambassador Ewing retired from the Department of State on September 30, 1993.

Since July 1, 1994, he has been managing editor of Mediterranean Quarterly, a journal of global issues, published by Duke University Press and with an editorial office at the National Press Building in Washington.

Raymond C. Ewing received a B.A. from Occidental College in 1957 and an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1970.

Ellen Herscher

Ellen Herscher has specialized in Cypriot archaeology for 35 years, participating in excavations and research at numerous sites throughout the island and living there for several years. She has published extensively on the Bronze Age period and on the preservation of archaeological resources. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, has taught at Cornell and the University of Minnesota, and served as Director of International Programs for the American Association of Museums.

Nancy Corbin completed a 31 year career with the US Government, Department of Navy and the Defense Information Systems Agency, in 1996. Having had a lifelong interest in archaeology, she then pursued her avocation, particularly in Egyptology, at the University of California, Berkeley and became a volunteer at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology as well as an active member of the American Research Center in Egypt. In 1997, she accepted the position of Registrar for the Princeton Cyprus Expedition at Polis tis Chrysochous, under the direction of Dr. William A.P. Childs and has continued to work each summer since, in that capacity.

F. Bryan Wilkins grew up in Middle East (India, Iran, Cyprus [1960-1964] while his father pursued a Foreign Service career. He developed a lifelong interest in archaeology and anthropology and participated in numerous underwater explorations off the northern coast of Cyprus and later studied with John Withoff and F. A. Pritchard at the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. He pursues ongoing studies of ancient Greece, Rome and the Mediterranean early trade development patterns in particular.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in American Studies and Archaeology. Wilkins has spent a 30 year career as a newspaper reporter especially concerned with macro economic and international economics (Institutional Investor) among other publications. Wilkins also operates a farm business based in Kentucky.

Robert (Bob) Wozniak is a former U.S. foreign service officer who served as counselor for public affairs (i.e., press and cultural relations) at our embassies in Athens, Rabat, Damascus and Nicosia as well as at our mission to NATO headquarters in Brussels while with the U.S. Information Agency (since merged into the State Department). Over the course of his 34-year diplomatic career and not least during assignments around the Mediterranean, he developed an interest in antiquity and archaeology as well as many friendships with scholars working in these areas. Like most American diplomats who have served in Cyprus, he retains abiding personal ties to the island.

Joseph A. Greene completed his doctorate in Near Eastern archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1985. From 1976 to 1980 he excavated at Carthage, Tunisia, with the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Punic Project. From 1980 to 1983, he directed the Carthage Survey, an archaeological reconnaissance of the hinterland of ancient Carthage. In 1986 he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, and in 1987-88 he directed the ACOR/USAID Cultural Resource Management Project. Between 1977 and 1986, he worked on archaeological excavations and surveys in Cyprus at Idalion, Kourion, and Palaipaphos. In 1986-87, he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at CAARI. In 1994 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Semitic Museum of Harvard University, where in 1997 he curated with Laina Swiny the exhibition Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum. He is editor of the Semitic Museum's on-line publication of its Cesnola Collection and, has been since 2002 editor of CAARI News.

William S. Andreas is a senior software designer with IBM. Over the past twenty years, he has excavated, catalogued and provided computer support at numerous archaeological sites in Cyprus, particularly Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitrios. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has studied classical and archaic literature at Boston College.
 

Clay Constantinou is an Attorney at Law and international consultant. He served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1994 to 1999. Following his appointment to Luxembourg, he served for six years as the founding Dean of the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Prior to his diplomatic service, Ambassador Constantinou practiced law in New Jersey. He has been active in national politics, spearheading the New Jersey Presidential campaigns of Governor Michael Dukakis, Governor Bill Clinton and Senator John Kerry. Ambassador Constantinou has earned an LL.M from NYU Graduate School of Law, a JD from Seton Hall University School of Law and a B.A. New Jersey City University. He was born in New York and resides in New Jersey with his wife and their two children.

Derek B. Counts is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he teaches Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology. He received his PhD in Old World Archaeology and Art from Brown University and holds degrees in Classics from Davidson College (A.B.) and the University of Georgia (M.A.). In 2001 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his research at CAARI. For the last six years he has been Co-Principal Investigator (with fellow CAARI Trustee, Michael K. Toumazou) of a National Science Foundation-Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant. Professor Counts is Associate Director of the Athienou Archaeological Project at the site of Athienou-Malloura in Cyprus where he has been excavating for the last decade. His research and publications focus on Cypriote sculpture and its associated iconography, as well as the history of religious cult in Cyprus. At present, he is preparing a monograph on the iconography and function of the principal male divinity worshipped in Iron Age Cypriote sanctuaries, exploring the relationship between cult and cultural identity in the formation of communities in Cyprus during this period. Counts is also a member of ASOR's Committee on Archaeological Policy and serves as President for the Milwaukee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

A. Bernard Knapp is Research Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. He received his PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. He has held research fellowships at the University of Sydney, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Cambridge University, and Macquarie University (Sydney). His research interests include archaeological theory, regional survey archaeology, gender and social identity, the archaeologies of landscape, island archaeology and insularity, and the prehistory of the Mediterranean, in particular Bronze Age Cypriot prehistory. He co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology with John F. Cherry and Peter van Dommelen, and is general editor of the series Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology (both published by Equinox Press, London).

He has been involved with CAARI from his very earliest fieldwork on Cyprus, and has enjoyed the support and help of its various directors, as well as that of Vathoulla Moustoukki, over the past 25 years. He looks forward to working with all the other CAARI Trustees during his tenure on the board.

Ann-Marie Knoblauch is an associate professor of art history in the School of the Visual Arts at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg Virginia. Ann-Marie first visited the island of Cyprus in 1991 to excavate at Yeronisos Island. Since 1998 Ann-Marie has been affiliated with the excavations at the site of Idalion. Ann-Marie’s research interests include sculpture and iconography and the relationship between the Greek world and Cyprus during the archaic and classical periods. Most recently Ann-Marie, along with trustee Stuart Swiny, co-edited a special double issue of the Journal of Near Eastern Archaeology, titled Ancient Cyprus: American Research (2008).

Chris Polglase has over 25 years of professional experience in archaeological excavations, research, and compliance studies. He is a Principal Anthropologist in URS' Gaithersburg, Maryland office. He has geographically wide-ranging compliance and research experience, having managed projects and conducted investigations throughout the Continental United States, the Arctic, the Caribbean, and Europe during the course of his professional career.

Chris Polglase has conducted specialized cultural resource investigations for U.S. Federal clients for nearly 20 years that have included conservation needs assessments for collections of artifacts from maritime settings; development of GIS modules; management of the design and installation of archaeological and historical exhibits; and preparation of over two dozen Cultural Resource Management Plans. His personal research interests have focused upon the exchange of obsidian in the Mediterranean region, human adaptation in changing environments, and methodologies for enhancing archaeological research.

Chris Polglase has degrees in Anthropology and Classical Studies from the College of William and Mary (B.A. 1980) and Anthropology from Binghamton (New York) University (M.A., 1985).

Nancy Serwint teaches ancient art and archaeology with a focus on the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean basin. Her current appointment is in the School of Art at Arizona State University, where she serves as Interim Director. She received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Princeton University in 1987 and an M.A. from the same institution in 1983. Prior to that she received an M.A. in Art History (ancient) from the University of Chicago in 1977, and her B.A. in Classics (ancient Greek) was awarded in 1973 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a classical archaeologist, she has worked on excavations in Sicily (Morgantina), in the Athenian Agora, at ancient Corinth, and since 1983 at ancient Marion/Arsinoe in Cyprus and serves as the Assistant Director of the Princeton University Expedition to Cyprus.

Her research focus has been varied with investigation and publications dealing with ancient athleticism and athletic representations in the Greek sculptural repertoire and gender issues in Cyprus and the ancient Near East. Her recent work is devoted to the study of the coroplastic arts of Cyprus and ancient Israel, focusing on production and manufacturing strategies, cross-cultural stylistic influences, and the role played by terracotta votive sculpture in cult ritual and religious worship. She is the author of numerous articles treating coroplastic sculpture and the art of Greek sport; in addition she is the co-editor of a book on gender issues in ancient Cyprus: Bolger, Diane and Serwint, Nancy, eds. Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (2002). From 1995-1999 she served as the Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute.

Brian Shelburne has a background in archaeology and library science. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, did graduate work at Florida State University, and received an M.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. He worked for the Greek-American Excavation at Mochlos, Crete for three seasons digging Bronze Age. He excavated Hellenistic and Chalcolithic material in Cyprus for five seasons on the island site of Yeronisos.

He is currently the Head of the Image Collection Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His received his MLIS degree from the University of South Carolina and specializes in collections of visual materials such as slides and digital images.

Alan H. Simmons is chair of the Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where is also is a professor. He has worked extensively in Cyprus, the Near East, and North America, focusing on Neolithic sites that have ranged from "mega-sites" in Jordan, smaller villages, and non-residential artifact scatters. He is particularly interested in the colonization of the Mediterranean islands, the development and spread of food production, the interpretation of small sites, and archaeological ethics. He is the author of numerous publications, including a 2007 book entitled The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East - Transforming the Human Landscape (University of Arizona Press) and he received the American School of Oriental Research's P.E. MacAllister Award for Field Archaeology in 2007.

AB Princeton University 1987, MA Bryn Mawr College 1989, PhD Bryn Mawr College 1994, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, Director, Center for Archaeology, Columbia University

My work focuses on artistic interconnections in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean world, particularly among the Aegean, Cyprus, Anatolia, and the Levant. In studying ancient visual communication, not only are creation and viewing important, but also recycling and re-use form bases for the transfer of ideas and aesthetics. Textiles, ceramics, architecture, and architectural sculpture form topics of ongoing research.

A scuba diving course with the local Massachusetts Police Force introduced Helena Wylde Swiny (Laina) to the underwater world. This qualification, along with a dual degree in Architecture and Graphic Design, secured the position of draftsperson and cataloguer on a series of underwater archaeological projects in Italy throughout the summer of 1965. That experience, which was also kindled by a childhood love for the sea, sent Laina to the Institute of Archaeology, London University, the only place to study the practical side of the science. Her studies progressed to a Postgraduate Degree in European Prehistory. It was also at the Institute that she met her husband of 37 years, Stuart Swiny.

In 1968 she was hired as "architect" for the excavation of a 3rd-4th century BC merchant ship, found off the north coast of Cyprus, known as the Kyrenia Ship. In 1971 she left Kyrenia to join Stuart and assist him in his projects in Iran and Afghanistan. During the years that Stuart Swiny was the Director of CAARI in Nicosia she was in charge of the interior design and decoration of the new CAARI premises at 11 Andreas Demitriou; served as Program Director; and worked with her sister-in-law Patricia Plum Wylde on the landscaping of the Institute's grounds and securing the Claude Schaeffer Library purchased in honor of her father John Irton Wylde. For four years while in Cyprus, Laina also worked for the Fulbright Commission Cyprus American Scholarship Program.

Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny returned to the United States in 1996. Currently she is a Research Associate at Harvard University and curates the Semitic Museum's holdings from the Cesnola Collection. The online publication can be found at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/Cesnola. Other responsibilities include display, and being co-curator of the majority of exhibits at the Semitic Museum. Underwater archaeology has come full circle as she has rejoined the Kyrenia Ship Project and is engaged in the final publication, as an author, and co-editor of the 2nd volume, that will be published by Texas A&M University.

Stuart Swiny first came to Cyprus in 1969 to work on the Kyrenia Ship excavation and has never looked back! Later that year he dug for Claude Schaeffer at the great Late Bronze Age site of Enkomi and also participated in various rescue excavations in the Kyrenia area. The following year saw work at Kition for Vassos Karageorghis, and survey in the Dhali region for the University at Albany before heading to Iran as fellow of the British Institute of Persian Studies. Iran led to two years in Afghanistan running the British Institute of Afghan Studies. Helena Wylde Swiny (Laina) and Stuart Swiny returned to the island in 1974 in order to excavate with James Carpenter a Middle Bronze Age site at Kalohorio Kalandrikas. This project, which had to be abandoned in 1974, was followed by excavations at the Middle and Late Bronze age site of Episkopi Phaneromeni from 1975 to 1978. Appointed as Director of CAARI in 1980, Stuart Swiny was able to continue investigating the Bronze Age of southern Cyprus with the excavation of Sotira Kaminoudhia, sponsored by ASOR and CAARI. The first phase of the excavations were published in 2003 (Sotira Kaminoudhia an Early Bronze Age Site in Cyprus. Eds. S. Swiny, G. Rapp and E. Herscher. CAARI Monograph Series, Vol 4. American Schools of Oriental Research Publications, Boston.)

In 1995 Stuart Swiny left CAARI to take up a teaching position and the directorship of the Institute of Cypriot Studies at the University at Albany. His work on the island continued with surveys and excavations, specifically at Kaminoudhia, where the past three seasons have produced interesting and unexpected results both on the function of certain areas of the site and the reason for the settlement's abandonment.

After a break of a few years, Stuart Swiny joined the CAARI Board of Trustees and is currently chairing the Library Expansion Committee.

Gisela Walberg is the Marion Rawson Professor of Aegean Prehistory at the University of Cincinnati, where she has taught since 1979. She taught at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1976-1978 and worked at the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm in periods 1964-1967 and 1969-70. Her scholarly work has been devoted to the Aegean Bronze Age. Her publications include: Kamares. A Study of the Character of Palatial Middle Minoan Pottery, Uppsala 1976 (second edition, Gothenberg, 1987); Kamares Style. The Overall Effects of Palatial Middle Minoan Pottery, Uppsala 1978; Provincial Middle Minoan Pottery, 1983; Tradition and Innovation. Essays in Minoan Art, Mainz 1986; Middle Minoan III. A Time of Transition, Gothenburg 1992; The Nelson and Helen Glueck Collection of Cypriot Pottery with a Biography of Nelson Glueck by R. G. Bullard, Gothenburg 1992; Illustration Volume to Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery. Mycenaean Pottery III, edited by P. Xström, R. Hägg & G. Walberg, Stockholm 1992; Excavations on the Acropolis of Midea I. Results of the Greek-Swedish Excavations. Vol. I:1-2. The Excavations on the Lower Terraces 1985-1991, Stockholm 1998; J. Neils & G. Walberg, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fasc. 2 (USA Fasc. 35) 2000 (the Aegean and Cypriot ceramics). The final report of her 1994-1997 excavations at Midea, Midea: The Megaron and Shrine Area. Excavations on the Lower Terraces 1994-1997. Vol. I:1-2, was published in 2007 in Philadelphia. She is currently directing excavations at the site of Episkopi-Bamboula, Cyprus, and working on the publication of the pottery from Anemospilia, Crete.

Professor Walberg has received grants from the University of Uppsala, Svenska Humanistiska Forskningsradet, the DAAD, Germany, the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), USA She is a Fellow of the Graduate School, University of Cincinnati since 1986.

Degrees: B.A. University of Stockholm, 1966; PhD University of Uppsala 1976

Frederick A. Winter is the senior director of advancement and leadership development at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He received his B.A. in classical Greek language from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Before coming to AAC&U, Winter was a senior program officer in the Office of Challenge Grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). When he joined the Endowment in 1993, he was a tenured professor of classics with a joint appointment in the doctoral program in classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the undergraduate program at Brooklyn College. His research and publications have focused on the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in Greece, the final prehistoric Celtic era in southeastern Europe, and the Hellenistic period in the eastern Mediterranean. He has excavated at Idalion in Cyprus, and also in Greece, Israel, Turkey, the United States, and Yugoslavia.

Board of Trustees

Officers

President
Raymond C. Ewing
Alexandria, VA

Vice President
Ellen Herscher
Washington, DC

Secretary
Nancy Corbin
Alameda, CA

Treasurer
F. Bryan Wilkins
Washington, DC

Assistant Treasurer
Robert J. Wozniak
Washington, DC

Clerk & Newsletter Editor
Joseph A. Greene
Cambridge, MA

IT Officer
William S. Andreas
Sudbury, MA


Trustees

Clay Constantinou
Colts Neck, NJ

Derek B. Counts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI

Lillian Craig
Nicosia, Cyprus

A. Bernard Knapp
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Ann-Marie Knoblauch
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA

Charles L. "Pete" Perry
Washington, DC

Christopher R. Polglase
Frederick, MD

Nancy Serwint
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Brian Shelburne
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

Alan H. Simmons
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

Joanna S. Smith
Columbia University
New York, NY

Helena Wylde (“Laina”) Swiny
Dover, MA

Stuart Swiny
University at Albany
Albany, NY

Gisela Walberg
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

Frederick A. Winter
Washington, DC