Research Spotlights

Drawers containing files of Agora mounted photographs – Aspa Efstathiou cross-referencing the mounted file of the Protoattic amphora P 22687 with the Agora’s website (www.ascsa.net). Homer A. Thompson Collection. Green Hall, Princeton.
Aspasia Efstathiou and Pia Kvarnstöm: Homer A. Thompson Collection

 

 

The research conducted from September 2 to September 6, 2024, focused on a comprehensive examination of all physical archival materials from the Homer Thompson Collection, now housed at Department of Art and Archaeology in Princeton. During this period, we meticulously inventoried and cataloged all 621 plans and drawings…

Woman with dark hair and glasses, green shirt, blue pants, sits on red and wood chair next to full bookshelf.
Ezgi Erol: Reflections on the Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes

For several months in Spring 2023, Ezgi Erol, an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in fine arts, sociology, and cultural studies, visited Visual Resources. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and hold a position in the department of Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Director of Visual Resources, Julia Gearhart, had an opportunity to interview Ezgi on her experience working in the archives.

Man in white shirt, white hat, grey pants, leaning over ruins; in front of him stands a man in grey suit, grey hat.
Kristina Zielke: Archival Discoveries

Kristina Zielke, a visiting graduate student in the Department of Art and Archaeology from Freie Universität Berlin during the spring 2024 semester, had an opportunity to comb through the archives in Visual Resources during her stay in Princeton. Struck by how useful these materials were to her own research, Kristina agreed to share details about her experience discovering how old photographs can spark new ideas.