Peter De Staebler

Peter D. De Staebler is an archaeologist and art and architectural historian with over two decades of field experience in Greece, Italy and Turkey, primarily at Aphrodisias where he was assistant director for field work in the mid-aughts and assistant director of the Aphrodisias Regional Survey Project. He is interested in materials and recycling, and how the initial decision to reuse existing materials necessarily influences later design decisions, with particular reference to fortifications, sculpture, and monolithic columns. His interests also include the interpretation, reception, and exhibition of classical antiquity for specialist and general audiences, as well as ancient representations of architectural and landscape space, how built and represented spaces were occupied, and interrelationships between proportions used in architecture and representations of bodies.

Peter is presently Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Design in the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute. Previously he taught in the School of Architecture at Pratt (PSPD), and at New York University, Brooklyn College and Parsons. He was also a curator at NYU’s Institute for the study of the Ancient World where he worked on exhibitions focused on prehistoric Malta, Chalcolithic Israel, late Classical nomadic Kazakhstan, Roman Dura-Europos in Syria, and fifth century Buddhist caves in central China.

Recent courses include:

HAD 111-112 Themes in Art and Culture I and II

HAD 206 and 602 Practices of Art and Design History

HAD 304 Greek and Roman Art and Design

HAD 405 Senior Thesis

HAD 420 and 620 Viewing and Constructing the Classical Body

HAD 427 and 627 Color in Ancient Greece and Rome

HAD 605/700 Graduate Thesis

HAD 622P Antique Chic: Trends and Traditions in Ancient Mediterranean Design

A.B., Bowdoin College

M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University