Joseph Basile is the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has a BA in Archaeological Studies from Boston University (1987), and an AM and PhD from Brown Universit
...MoreJoseph Basile is the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has a BA in Archaeological Studies from Boston University (1987), and an AM and PhD from Brown University in Old World Archaeology and Art (1990 and 1992).
As an archaeologist Prof. Basile has excavated in the US, Greece, and Italy, and was Associate Director of the Brown University excavations at the Great Temple in Petra, Jordan, from 1997 to 2006. As an art historian, his research focuses on “hybrid” and “synchretic” art in Classical antiquity, Greek vase painting, and the history of archaeology, and he has published articles in books and journals such as Near Eastern Archaeology, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Petra Great Temple Reports, Archaeology Odyssey, Archaeologia Transatlantica, Classical World, Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia, Revue des archéologues et historiens d’art de Louvain, and Brown Classical Journal. He is currently working on "Warriors in Stone", a book on commemorative warrior statuary in the Iron Age Mediterranean, for Cambria Press, due out in 2013.
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