David Pettegrew

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Ancient History, The Ohio State University 2006
• M.A., Ancient History, The Ohio State University, 2000
• B.A., Anthropology, Greek, Wright State University, 1998

Biography

David Pettegrew is an historian of the Ancient Mediterranean World whose research centers on integrating archaeological and textual evidence to narrate the local history of cities and regions. He teaches courses in Latin, Greek and Roman History, Late Antiquity, and Historical Archaeology. Before arriving at Messiah College in 2006, he was Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens where he conducted research on a dissertation called Corinth on the Isthmus: The End of An Ancient Landscape. David has participated in archaeological programs in southern Ohio, central Pennsylvania, Kythera and Corinth in Greece, and Larnaka, Cyprus. He is co-director of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project, which is investigating Hellenistic and Roman coastal sites in Cyprus, and he regularly takes students to Cyprus in May-June. And he is involved with the Stouffer Farm and Cemetery Project south of Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.  He lives in Camp Hill, PA, with his wife, Kate, and son James.

Courses Taught

• Latin I, Latin II, and Intermediate Latin
• Western Civilization I
• Roman History
• Late Antiquity
• Historical Archaeology
• The World of Late Antiquity (First-Year Seminar)
• Faith, Vocation, and Education in Late Antiquity (First-Year Seminar)
• Cross-Cultural Course to Albania and Greece
• The History and Archaeology of Cyprus (Filed School in Archaeology)

SELECTED Publications

• "The Diolkos of Corinth," American Journal of Archaeology 115.4 (2011), 549-574.
• "Towers and Fortifications at Vayia in the Southeast Corinthia," with W.R. Caraher and Sarah James, Hesperia 79.3 (2010), 385-415.
• "Regional Survey and the Boom-and-Bust Countryside: Rereading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia," International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14.2 (2010), 215-229.
• "Surveying Late Antique Cyprus," with W.R. Caraher and R.S. Moore, Near Eastern Archaeology 71.1-2 (2008), 82-89.
• "The Busy Countryside of Late Roman Corinth: Interpreting Ceramic Data Produced by Regional Archaeological Surveys," Hesperia 76.4 (2007), 743-784.

recent Presentations

• “Producing Peasants in the Corinthian Countryside,” Paper presented with William Caraher at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, January 2012.

• “Basil’s Thunderbolt: Niketas Ooryphas and the Portage of the Corinthian Isthmus,” Paper presented at the Byzantine Studies Conference, Chicago, October 2011.

• “The Diolkos, Emporium, and Commercial Corinth,” Paper presented at the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, London, July 2011.
  

Current Activities

David has two major research projects under way. Corinth on the Isthmus: Crossroads of the Mediterranean World (under contract with University of Michigan Press) examines the commercial and maritime facility of Corinth's eastern territory, the isthmus that connected southern and northern Greece, from the 1st century BC to 7th century AD. Pyla-Koutsopetria: Archaeological Survey of a Late Roman Coastal Town is a volume detailing archaeological work in Cyprus and is co-edited with Drs. W.R. Caraher and R.S. Moore. David has forthcoming articles on Roman settlement patterns on the Isthmus, Corinth's commercial emporion, and excavations at Pyla-Vigla in Cyprus.