Janet D. Jones Classics Department Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA

Presidential Professor of Classics

Classical Archaeologist

Ancient Glass Specialist

contact:

Classics Department

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, PA 17837

Office: (570) 577-1624 (office)

Fax: (570) 577-1064 (fax)

email: jjones@bucknell.edu

Office: Coleman 70

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Janet Jones is Presidential Professor of Classics at Bucknell University. She received her B.A. in Latin from the College of William and Mary and her M.A. and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jones is an active field archaeologist specializing in Greek and Roman art and architecture, cultural landscape studies, ancient urbanization, ancient technology with a focus on ancient glass production, and ancient environmental issues. She writes and lectures on the history of technology – most recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum.

Her archaeological field experience includes work at in Greece at Athens and Corinth, in Turkey at Gritille Hoyuk and Gordion, in Tunisia at Carthage and in Jordan at el-Lejjun, Humayma, and Aqaba.

Corning Museum of Glass

Glass from Gordion