Tim Shea

ASCSA NEH Fellowship

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Topic: Death and Diplomacy: The Politics of Immigration and Burial in Classical Athens

Tim Shea received his B.A. in Greek and Latin from Tulane University and his Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests lie in the art, archaeology, and topography of ancient Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods. As a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American School, he will complete the manuscript of his current book project, Death and Diplomacy: The Politics of Immigration and Burial in Classical Athens, which investigates the ways in which immigrant communities expressed their identity through tombstones and burial plots in the cemeteries of ancient Athens. He has received support previously for this project from the Center for Hellenic Studies, where he was a resident fellow in 2022-2023. In all his research, he implements GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and digital mapping tools to study archaeological evidence spatially.