Andrew Stewart

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Andrew Stewart is Chancellor’s Professor, Professor of the Graduate School, and Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies Emeritus in the Departments of Art History and Classics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology. A graduate of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge (UK), he is a former student of the British Schools of Archaeology at Athens and Rome. He specializes in Greek art, particularly Greek sculpture, and currently is charged with publishing the Classical and Hellenistic freestanding and architectural sculpture from the Athenian Agora. He has excavated at sites in Crete, New Zealand, and Israel, where he led a U.C. Berkeley team from 1986 to 2006. A member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim and Getty Foundations, and from the American Council of Learned Societies; in 2009 he received U.C. Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award.