Joseph Coleman Carter

Joseph Coleman Carter (born 23 December 1941) 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.

Selected publications

The Chora of Metaponto (1998, University of Texas Press: ) The Sculpture Of Taras (1976, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society: ) Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (2006, University of Michigan: ) The study of ancient territories : Chersonesos and Metaponto : 2004 annual report (2006, Institute of Classical Archeology: ) The Necropoleis (1998, University of Texas Press: Crimean Chersonesos : city, chora, museum, and environs (2003, University of Texas Press: )