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Stephanie Larson is Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University.  She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and specializes in Greek history, archaeology, and culture from antiquity through early Byzantium with particular focus on Thebes, Boiotia, the Archaic period, and ancient gender.  She has extensive experience on the ground in Greece, having begun as an undergraduate volunteer excavator in Crete in 1992.  Since then, she has returned to Greece as often as possible, taking classes, excavating, participating in the American School’s academic programs as a Fulbright scholar and as an Associate Member, and traveling the country.  Stephanie has served as Co-Director of the ASCSA-affiliated Thebes Excavation Project at the Ismenion hill.  She has raised over half a million USD in funding for this work, and she has been awarded numerous fellowships, most recently an ASCSA NEH and a Harvard Loeb Library Foundation grant (2025-26).  As a member of the ASCSA this year she will be working on the late Roman/early Byzantine Ismenion cemetery, which has revealed DNA of ancient mutated pathogens that help date the use and expansion of the cemetery quite specifically.

In addition to presenting and publishing in many venues on the Thebes Excavation, Stephanie has also published on Archaic Greek group identity (Tales of Epic Ancestry, 2007), Geometric and Archaic Thebes and material culture (2017, 2018), Athenian activity in Boiotia in the late Archaic period (2014), gender in Herodotus (2006), the poetry of Sappho (2010), among other contributions.  In teaching, in addition to her love of mentoring students in ancient Greek, Stephanie creates and directs numerous semester and also short-term study-abroad programs in Greece: one of her pedagogical passions centers on introducing students of all ages to the incredible histories and cultures of ancient and modern Greece.