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Ehsan Behbahani Nia

Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Topic: Building for the Great King: Greeks and Anatolians Working in Persia

Ehsan Behbahani-Nia is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in ancient Greek architecture, construction techniques, and stone-carving. His research investigates the diffusion of building technologies and the movement of stonemasons across the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern regions during the Archaic and Classical periods. In the field, he is currently involved with archaeological projects at Sardis (Harvard-Cornell), Isthmia (University of Chicago), Labraunda (French-Turkish mission), and more recently, Persepolis in Persia. He has also previously contributed to other archaeological projects in Iran, Serbia, Greece, Italy, and France, including sites such as Pasargadae, Portus of Rome, Delos, Onchestos, Corinth, Caričin Grad, Mandeure, Arles, and Argentomagus.