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

klg16@cornell.edu
607.255.1649
607.255.7924
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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
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University –7 years
  • University of Pennsylvania—8 years
 
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
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 Specialist, Petra Pool and Garden Project, Jordan; 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.
 
Selected Publications - Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
  • “Excavating Relict Gardens,” “Planning” and “Field Methods” in The Handbook on Garden Archaeology, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks (forthcoming).
  • “The Garden” in New Excavations at the Villa of Horace, Bernard Frischer, ed. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute, University of California Press (In Press).
  • 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.