Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Andrew Ramage
Professor,
History of Art

Associate Director, Sardis Expedition

Fellow, Society of Antiques of London

ar15@cornell.edu
607.255.7078
GM 1 Goldwin Smith Hall
Education
  • Cambridge, U.K., B.A.(Hons.) 1961, M.A.1965, Classics and Classical Archaeology
  • Harvard, Ph.D.1970, Classical Archaeology
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University - 32 years
  • U Mass. Boston - 2 years full-time, 2 years part-time
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1 year (visiting)
Administrative Positions at Cornell
  • 1973-1976, 1987-1990, 1997-2000, Director, Intercollege Program in Archaeology
  • 1981-1986, Chairman, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology
 
Research Interests
Iron Age Anatolia, especially Lydia; ceramics; metallurgy, especially gold refining; numismatics
 
Fieldwork
Canterbury and Verulamium (UK) 1956/7; Knossos (1960); Sardis (1965-present), Associate Director since 1977, Editor, Sardis Publication Series since 1987
 
Selected Publications
  • "Lydian Houses and Architectural Terracottas". Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monograph 5 (Cambridge, 1978).
  • "Twenty Five Years of Discovery at Sardis" (Cambridge, 1983), written with Nancy H. Ramage to accompany a travelling exhibit funded by the N.E.H. (Turkish Translation 1986).
  • "Emblems of Authority: Greek and Roman Coins from Two Alumni Collections", (Exhibition catalogue and essay) Ithaca, NY 1994.
  • "Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine", with Nancy H. Ramage, 1991, Prentice Hall (USA) and Cambridge University Press (UK)
  • "The Cambridge Illustrated History of Roman Art". 2nd ed., Prentice Hall (USA) and Laurence King (UK), 1995. (Translated into German, French, Dutch, Modern Greek, Chinese and Korean) 4th ed. 2004.
  • "King Croesus' Gold", with Paul T. Craddock, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Monograph 11, 2000.
  • "Guide to the Classical Collections at Cornell" with N. H. Ramage and P.I. Kuniholm, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2002.