Joseph Coleman Carter


Joseph Coleman Carter is an American archaeologist, author, and academic specializing in Greek art and the study of ancient Greek colonies. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, a research unit associated with the University of Texas at Austin, and the non-profit Center for the Study of Ancient Territories.

Education

He earned a BA in Classics from Amherst College in 1963. He completed his MA and PhD from Princeton University in 1967 and 1971 respectively. His doctoral thesis was on "Sculpture from the Necropolis of Taranto".

Career

From 1971 to 2018, he was a professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held the Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and the Centennial Professorship in Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently holds emeritus professor status.
He has completed excavations and surveys of the Greek colonial sites of Metaponto, in Southern Italy, and Chersonesos,in Ukraine. With the help of his efforts and financial support from the Packard Humanities Institute, Chersonesos was inscribed a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2013.

Awards and scholarships

He is the winner of the James R. Wiseman book award.

Selected publications