Insight: Professor Catherine Keesling
What is your favorite thing about Washington, DC?
Statues and monuments everywhere! It is easy to get students to understand what it is like to live in a cityscape full of reminders of history. Ancient Athens was like this, and of course modern Athens is too.
What would you be doing if you weren't a professor at Georgetown University?
Assuming that I won the lottery or otherwise didn't have to worry about earning a living, I would spend my time volunteering at the National Zoo.
If someone wanted to find out more about your subject, what would be the one book you would recommend before others?
A good place to start would be: James Whitley, “The Archaeology of Ancient Greece” (Cambridge University Press 2001). This book attempts to explain both what archaeologists who study ancient Greece are doing right now, and how the field evolved out of the Enlightenment.
What are three words those close to you would use to describe you? Funny, cautious, methodical
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