CONTACT

Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
email: wpiw3wt@gmail.com

RESEARCH

• Mediterranean archaeology including material culture, architecture, primary fieldwork and small-scale GIS applications from the Bronze Age to the late Antique with particular emphasis on the Roman period.
• Digital and Internet technology and relevant applications in archaeology and classical scholarship.
• 3D modelling and rendering, and especially the use of computer game engines to produce academically valid models or didactic tools.
• Ancient daily life, domestic space, the city, commerce and the arts in classical literature and the material record.

CAREER OVERVIEW

Excavation
Director | Via Consolare Project, Pompeii. 2005.
Field Director (Excavation) | Anglo-American Project in Pompeii. 1996-2005.
Excavation Supervisor | Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Luxor, Egypt. 1998.

Teaching
Assistant Professor in Classics | San Francisco State University. From Fall Semester 2006.
Visiting Lecturer in History | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Winter Term 2006.
Head of Field School | Anglo-American Project in Pompeii. 2005.
Visiting Lecturer in Classics | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Spring Term 2005.
Course Instructor | University of Cambridge: Institute of Continuing Education. Lent Term 2004.
Teaching Associate | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Spring Term 1999 – Spring Term 2001.

EDUCATION

PhD in Archaeology | University of Cambridge. 2001-2004. Thesis title: ‘Visitors, Inhabitants, Space and Power in the Roman House.'
MA in Archaeology | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 1998-2001. Thesis title: ‘Cross-Cultural Variability and the Dynamic of Social Space.’
Field Certification in Excavation Sciences (Grade A) | Anglo-American Project in Pompeii field school (University of Bradford). 1996, 1997.
BA in History, magna cum laude | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 1993-1997.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Chapters
Anderson, M. Hayden, C. and S. Stoddart. (In Preparation) ‘An Analysis of Power and Visibility: Prehistoric Maltese Temples.’
Anderson, M. (In Press) ‘Mapping the Domestic Landscape: GIS, Visibility and the Pompeian house.’ in the Proceedings of CAA Conference 2004.
Anderson, M. 2005. ‘Houses, GIS and the Micro-Topology of Pompeian Domestic Space.’ in Bruhn, J. et. al. TRAC 2004: proceedings of the 14th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxbow Books.
Anderson, M. 2005. ‘Digital Spaces: Pompeii, the Internet, and Beyond.’ Archeologia e Calcolatori 15: 449-464.
Anderson, M. 2004. ‘Computer Games and Archaeological Reconstruction: The Low Cost VR.’ in Magistrat der Stadt Wien. Enter the Past: The E-way into the Four Dimensions of Cultural Heritage. BAR International Series 1227: 521-524.
Anderson, M. 2003. ‘QTVR and the Preservation of Pompeii Regio VI: Using Digital Technologies to Document and Preserve Archaeological Sites.’ in Doerr, M. and A. Sarris, The Digital Heritage of Archaeology. Heraklion: Hellenic Ministry of Culture: 21-27.
Anderson, M. 2002. ‘Visibility.’ Antiquity 76 (2002): 627-8.
Redhouse, D. I., M. Anderson, T.Cockerell, S.Gilmour, R. Housley, C. Malone and S. Stoddart. ‘Power in context: the Lismore landscape project.’ Antiquity 76 (2002): 945-6.

Reviews
Anderson, M. 2006. Review of The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City. in JRS (In Press).
Anderson, M. 2005. Review of Geology and Settlement: Greco-Roman Patterns. in JRS 95: 320.
Anderson, M. 2005. Review of Pompeian Households: an analysis of the material culture. in Antiquity 79 (2005): 475f.