Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Kathryn L. Gleason
Associate Professor,
Landscape Architecture

klg16@cornell.edu
607.255.1649
607.255.7924
440 Kennedy Hall
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Education
  • Cornell University, Landscape Architecture, B.S., 1979
  • Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Master of Landscape Architecture, 1983
  • Oxford University-Lincoln College, Anthropology & Geography/ Archaeology, D.Phil., 1991
    • Fulbright Scholar, American Academy in Rome Fellow
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University, 1996-present
  • University of Pennsylvania, 1988-1996
 
Research Interests
Roman archaeology, garden archaeology, landscape history, design history, environmental archaeology, archaeology in contemporary design theory and practice, historic preservation, conservation and interpretation of archaeological sites.
 
Research Experience
Landscape archaeologist: Soprintendenza di Pompeii/Restoring Ancient Stabiae Garden Project at the Villa Arianna, Castellmare di Stabia, Italy; Garden Archaeology Consultant, Petra Garden and Pool Porject, Petra, Jordan; Garden Archaeologist, The Mughal/Rajput Gardens of Nagaur Fort and Palace, Rajasthan, India; Co-principal Investigator, American Academy in Rome/Soprintendenza per il Lazio Excavations at “Horace’s Villa”, Licenza, Italy; Project Director, University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations of the Promontory Palace, Caesarea Maritima, Israel; Landscape Archaeologist, Nordic Academies Excavations at Nemi, Italy; Landscape archaeologist: Herod the Great Garden Projects at Masada, Herodium and Jericho; Palatine East Excavations, Rome, Italy; Indiana University Excavations at Castle Copse Roman Villa, Wilts. England; Surveyor and Illustrator: American Academy in Rome Excavations in the Regia; Cornell/Harvard Expedition to Sardis, Turkey; Bryn Mawr Expedition to Gritlle Hoyuk, Turkey; Tunisian Excavations at Carthage and Thurburbo Maius, Tunisia.
 
Selected Publications - Books
  • Miller, Naomi F., and Kathryn L. Gleason, eds. The Archaeology of Garden and Field Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • Executive Editor for Gardens of the Roman Empire, Wilhelmina Jashemski, Editor, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
 
Selected Publications - Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
  • L. Bedal, K. Gleason, J. Schryver, “The Petra Garden and Pool Complex, 2003-2005” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 51 (2007)151-176.
  • “Excavating Relict Gardens,” “Planning” and “Field Methods” in The Handbook on Garden Archaeology, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks (forthcoming).
  • "The Garden" in The Horace’s Villa Project 1997-2003. Bernard Frischer et al., eds. ArchaeoPress, 2006. 659-679.
  • Frischer, Bernard, Kathryn Gleason, Stefano Camaiani, Laura Cerri, Irene Lekstutis, and Luca
    Passalaqua, “A Preliminary Report on New Studies and Excavations at Horace’s Villa: The Campaigns of 1997 and 1998.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 45 (2000) 247-276.
  • “The Promontory Palace at Caesarea Maritima: Preliminary Evidence for Herod’s Praetorium” Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998) 23-52.
  • “Gardens in Pre-Classical Times” and “Gardens of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Eric Meyers, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • "Ruler and Spectacle: the Palace in Entertainment Complexes of the Late Hellenistic World."In Caesarea Maritima: Retrospective after Two Millennia, Avner Raban and Kenneth Holum, eds. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.
  • “Porticus pompeiana: A New Perspective on the First Public Park of Ancient Rome." Journal of Garden History 14.1 (January-March 1994): 13-27.
  • With Naomi F. Miller. "The Archaeobotanical Remains." In Eric Hostetter, et al., "A late-Roman
    domus with apsidal hall on the NE slope of the Palatine: 1989-91." Journal of RomanArchaeology 11 (1994): 172-175
  • With Barbara Burrell and Ehud Netzer. "Uncovering Herod's Seaside Palace." Biblical Archaeology Review 19.3 (May-June 1993): 50-57.
  • “A Garden Excavation in the Oasis Palace of Herod the Great at Jericho." Landscape Journal 12.2 (Spring 1993): 156-167.
  • "The Garden Portico of Pompey the Great: An Ancient Public Park Preserved in the Layers of Rome." Expedition 32.2 (1990) 3-13.