{"id":366,"date":"2022-03-20T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/letterstoclio\/?p=366"},"modified":"2022-04-20T18:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:06:30","slug":"dr-lynne-kvapil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/2022\/03\/20\/dr-lynne-kvapil\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr. Kvapil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Biography<\/span><\/h3>\n

Lynne A. Kvapil (she\/her), known by her students as Dr. K, is an archaeologist specializing in ancient Greece and Aegean Prehistory. Her research focuses on the Mycenaean Greeks, particularly farming, warfare, the manufacture of ceramics, and labor organization and management. As an active field archaeologist, Dr. K travels to Greece every summer, where she is the Assistant Director of the Nemea Center of Archaeology Excavations at the Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia and the Petsas House Excavations at Mycenae. Dr. K has been awarded research funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust to support her ongoing research on the Mycenaean Greeks, and she has been a part of a successful grant-writing team that has been awarded funding from the Archaeological Institute of America and the Loeb Foundation to support the excavations at Aidonia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Research and Scholarship<\/span><\/h3>\n

At Butler University, Dr. K teaches in all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world, but most often she teaches about Ancient Greece, including Ancient Greek language courses, Ancient Greek Art and Myth, Ancient Greek Perspectives. She also teaches upper level courses in Ancient Greek and Roman Art and Architecture and Women in Antiquity. Dr. K is also a co-director of the Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and Classics (AMCA) lab, which won a 2015 Butler University Innovation Grant and which aims to help put the material culture of the ancient world into the modern classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upcoming and Current Butler Courses<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  • PCA 262 CLA:<\/b> Greek Art and Myth<\/span><\/li>\n
  • TI 201 CLA<\/b>: Ancient Greek Perspectives<\/span><\/li>\n
  • CLA 322:<\/b> Art & Architecture of Greece and Rome<\/span><\/li>\n
  • CLA 323<\/b>: Women and Antiquity<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Topics<\/b>: Archeology of the Dead<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Ancient Greek<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Independent Study Opportunities<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \"\"Study Abroad and Archaeological Field School in Greece<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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