(Crossposted at The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project) At 5:15 AM, the cityscape of Larnaka is just beginning to appear in the dawn. This morning we will fully begin our work at the site of Pyla-Vigla. Remarkably, we have already been in Larnaca 10 days and will be here for another 15. Almost halfway through our season, [...]
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PKAP 2012 Season Begins
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Student Activities, Student Research on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Videos from the Transforming Book Symposium
Posted in David Pettegrew, John Fea, Public Lectures and Symposia, School of Humanities, Videos on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you missed Dr. Anthony Grafton’s outstanding lecture on the transforming book in late February, the School of Humanities at Messiah College has made it available online at this vimeo channel. Additionally, the same channel features videos of professors and students from Communications, English, and Bible and Religious Studies giving talks about transforming books. Two [...]
A summer in review with Dr. Pettegrew
Posted in David Pettegrew, Faculty Activities on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One might picture a summer for a history professor as being locked away in an archive or library. However, the summer of a history professor might not be as research intensive or dry as one might think. To disprove this, Dr. Pettegrew agreed to discuss his experiences during this summer and the types of research [...]
Discovering Cyprus Through the Ages with David Pettegrew and Melissa Hogan
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this podcast discussion with professor David Pettegrew and 2011 Messiah history graduate Melissa Hogan. Dr. Pettegrew and Melissa discuss their archaeological work in Cyprus. If you are a history major, history minor, or someone interested in archaeology, you may know that Dr. Pettegrew takes students every May term to Cyprus. Contact him for [...]
Stouffer Farm Videos
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Service Projects, Student Activities, Student Research, Videos on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Oakes Museum of Natural History has posted 14 short videos on their Youtube channel related to our collaborative archaeological venture this spring at the Stouffer Farm near Dillsburg. In going through them yesterday, I noticed appearances from a number of history students: For an introduction to our work at the farm, see my overview in Video [...]
Melissa Hogan on Cypriot Mosaics
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Student Activities, Student Research on May 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last Tuesday, history department faculty and students listened to the third and final senior honors thesis of the 2010-2011 year: Melissa Hogan’s “Puzzling over History: A Study of Late Antique Cyprus through Mosaic Art.” In her presentation, Melissa discussed the research she has been conducting over the last two years on mosaic floors and walls uncovered [...]
A Classical & Medieval European History Course – in Cyprus
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, Courses, David Pettegrew, Study Abroad on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are you interested in meeting your pre-modern Europe requirement through archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean? Dr. Pettegrew is now accepting applications for his field school in archaeology near Larnaka, Cyprus in May-June 2012. In 2012, participants in the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project will be excavating a military garrison settlement of the 3rd century BC (Hellenistic date) [...]
Stauffer Farm Excavations – Friday Vlog
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Student Activities, Videos on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday we continued our excavations at the Stauffer Farm, south of Dillsburg, PA, and excavated down into early 20th century levels. As Friday was also Accepted Student Preview Day for future History Majors at Messiah College, I made a little videolog of our excavations, which Dr. Fea played for the visiting families in his [...]
Stauffer Farm Excavations Resume
Posted in Archaeology & Material Culture, David Pettegrew, Student Activities on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the fall, I wrote about the excavations in which history majors participated at a late 18th century farmhouse south of Dillsburg. The Oakes Museum of Natural History at Messiah College ran one of their “Curator Club Archaeology Days” for elementary aged children, and our students supervised the trenches. You can read about the dig in [...]
History Department Faculty Updates
Posted in Anne Marie Stoner-Eby, David Pettegrew, John Fea, Joseph Huffman on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I asked history faculty what they had been up to recently with their teaching, research, and service. Here are some updates I received: Anne Marie Stoner-Eby began her new project on the history of Mennonites in Tanzania and Ethiopia this Fall with two conference papers given at the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) held [...]
