An interview with Michael Shanks
An interview with Michael Shanks

Summary/Abstract: Michael Shanks is the Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classics at Stanford University in California and Co-Director of the Stanford Humanities Lab.1 Michael joined Stanford in 1998 following his position as Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Wales at Lampeter; he took his PhD from Cambridge in 1992. Among his many publications were the ground-breaking volumes written with Chris Tilley, Re-constructing Archaeology and Social Theory in Archaeology, both published in 1987. Other major works include Theatre/Archaeology (with Mike Pearson; 2001), Art and the Early Greek State (1999), Classical Archaeology of Greece (1996), Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past (1995), and Experiencing the Past (1992). A more complete list of recent and earlier work can be found on Michael’s extraordinary website: http://metamedia.stanford.edu/projects/MichaelShanks/Home.

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