As Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Classics department, Professor Haggis oversees the undergraduate curriculum and administrative records for Classics majors, who choose from among Greek, Latin, Greek and Latin, Classical Civilization and Classical Archaeology as curricular options. The department encourages interaction among majors, lending personal support and formal mentoring, as well as fostering informal exchange between students and faculty. Communication is facilitated by students having their own personal mail boxes in the main department office (Murphey Hall 212). For more information about the department or majoring in classics, the DUS can be reached at (919) 962-7640 or by email at dchaggis@email.unc.edu.
Donald Haggis studied Latin, Greek, and Classical Archaeology at the University of Minnesota. He conducted his Ph.D. coursework in both the Department of Classical Studies and the Center for Ancient Studies, where he developed an interest in Aegean state formation and the use of intensive archaeological survey to explore cultural dynamics on a regional scale. His current research interests include the archaeology of Prepalatial, Protopalatial and Early Iron Age Crete, fields that present analogous problems and interpretive frameworks: principally the organization of Minoan society in Early Minoan III-Middle Minoan IB (ca. 2300-1800 B.C.) and the development of early cities and small-scale states on Crete after the abandonment of Bronze Age palatial centers (ca. 1200-600 B.C.).
His fieldwork has included excavation at the Athenian Agora, Kouphonisi (Crete), Vronda and Kastro Kavousi, Kalo Khorio Istron, and Azoria. Since 1988 he has participated in surveys at Kavousi, Vrokastro, and Gournia, and in 1997, he joined the Petras excavations in eastern Crete, with the aim of studying an assemblage of Middle Minoan IB pottery from a closed deposit, called the “Lakkos.” Filling a significant gap in our understanding of the east-Cretan Protopalatial ceramic sequence, the various ware groups in the Lakkos allow the reconstruction of drinking sets and the function of stylistic diversity in the context of ritual consumption at an emerging palace center (American Journal of Archaeology 111, 2007).
Haggis is co-editor of the international journal Aegean Archaeology; the chair of the interdepartmental Faculty Working Group on Early Mediterranean Societies (Odum Institute for Research in Social Science); and director of the Azoria Project —the excavation of a Final Neolithic, late Prepalatial, Early Iron Age-Archaic site in eastern Crete. The excavations at Azoria explore processes of urbanization and state-formation in the Early Iron Age and early Archaic period (ca. 1200-600 BC).
E-mail: dchaggis@email.unc.edu
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