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Christian Cloke

Associate Director, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture
Ph.D. in Classics (University of Cincinnati)
office: 4205B Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building
phone: 301-405-7951
ccloke@umd.edu

Christian Cloke specializes in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, and employs a range of digital methods to do so. In his archaeological fieldwork (conducted in Italy, Jordan, Armenia, Albania, and Greece), he works with custom-built relational databases (taken into the field on iPads to foster paperless data collection), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and a wide array of modeling and imaging techniques (photogrammetry, laser scanning, and reflectance transformation imaging, to name several). In all of his fieldwork—and through his larger research project on the Nemea Valley, Greece—he explores rural parts of the Mediterranean world, with the goal of illuminating the lives of people underrepresented in ancient historical texts.

Dr. Cloke holds a B.A. in Classics and Old World Archaeology and Art from Brown University, an M.Phil. in Archaeology (Museums and Cultural Heritage Management) from the University of Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics (Classical Archaeology) from the University of Cincinnati. He spent several years in Greece as a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of American History, where he worked with the National Numismatic Collection. At the Smithsonian he researched ancient Greek and Roman portrayals of “others” (captives, personified provinces, and “barbarians”), demonstrating how the visual language of these types played a significant role in shaping modern American depictions of American Indians and abolitionist emblems of enslaved people. In addition to numismatics, he works often with Greek and Roman pottery, and, on a larger scale, studies ancient waterworks and agricultural systems.

In the Collaboratory he strives to develop digital projects with departmental and extra-departmental faculty, and to provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to master and innovate dynamic approaches to studying and presenting material culture.

 

Full List of Publications

Forthcoming. Co-authored with Alex Knodell, Sylvian Fachard, and Kalliope Papangeli. “Diagnostic Visibility and Problems of Quantification in Survey Assemblages: Examples from the Mazi Archaeological Project (Northwest Attica),” in Fields, Sherds, and Scholars: Recording and Interpreting Survey Ceramics, publication of a conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens (February, 2017).

2020. Co-authored with Effie Athanassopoulos. "Late Antique and Medieval Landscapes of the Nemea Valley, Southern Greece." Journal of Greek Archaeology vol. 5: 406-425.

2020. Elizabeth A. Honig, Deb Niemeier, Christian F. Cloke, and Quint Gregory. "Thinking through Data in the Humanities and in Engineering." The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy issue 18 (December): https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/thinking-through-data-in-the-humanities...

2017. Alex R. Knodell, Susan E. Alcock, Christopher A. Tuttle, Christian F. Cloke, Tali Erickson-Gini, Cecelia Feldman, Gary O. Rollefson, Micaela Sinibaldi, Thomas M. Urban, and Clive Vella. “The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project: Landscape Archaeology in the Northern Hinterland of Petra, Jordan.” American Journal of Archaeology vol. 121 no. 4 (October): 621–683. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3764/aja.121.4.0621

2016. “The Water Systems of the Great Temple,” in Petra Great Temple: Volume III, edited by Martha Joukowsky, pp. 71–88. Oxford: Oxbow.

2016. “Coins from the Great Temple Excavations: An Overview,” in Petra Great Temple: Volume III, edited by Martha Joukowsky, pp. 287–298. Oxford: Oxbow.

2009. “Coin Collecting at Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins and Medals.” American Numismatic Society Magazine vol. 7 no. 3 (Winter): 46–50.

2007. Co-authored with Martha Sharp Joukowsky. “The Petra Great Temple’s Water Strategy,” in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan IX, edited by F. al-Khraysheh, pp. 431–437. Amman: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Department of Antiquities. http://publication.doa.gov.jo/uploads/publications/24/SHAJ_9-431-437.pdf

2006. Review of The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure, by P. S. W. Guest. Archaeological Review from Cambridge vol. 21 no. 1 (April).

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