The ASCSA’s Publications Office welcomes Mark Landon as he begins his six-month term as interim editor of Hesperia. Tracey Cullen, editor of the journal, is on research leave so that she may complete her manuscript Funerary Ritual and Human Biology at Franchthi Cave, to be part of the series Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece (Indiana University Press). Landon’s term begins as issue 80.2 goes to press.

A native Californian, Landon received his B.A. in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He enjoyed the experience so much that he immediately decided to do it again, this time at King’s College, Cambridge, where he spent two years as a Marshall Scholar and earned a second B.A. before returning to Berkeley for his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology.

A regular member and honorary John Williams White fellow at the ASCSA in 1990-1991, he returned in 1992 for two more years as associate member and Gorham Philips Stevens fellow while writing his dissertation on Corinthian water supply. He has excavated at Nemea and at Corinth, where he spent several months exploring the network of subterranean sewers and supply tunnels that lie buried beneath ruins of the Greek and Roman city, a task that required a prodigious number of flashlight batteries and a high level of tolerance for the company of bats.

He has taught at Ohio University, Cornell University, and the College of the Holy Cross, and for the last eleven years he has been a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College, where he describes himself as “the academic equivalent of one of those annoying dinner guests who never goes home.”

Having worked for over a decade as a freelance editor and proofreader for American School publications, Landon is delighted to join the staff of the Publications Office for the next six months. “I’m honored to have been asked to fill in at Hesperia while Tracey is on leave,” he says.” The School is honored to have him full-time until January 2012.

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