Peter Schultz

Peter Schultz is a conservationist, archaeologist, and entrepreneur. He's the former Olin J. Storvick Chair of Classical Studies at Concordia College, the current  Executive Director of the Longspur Prairie Fund, and a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Visual Art at North Dakota State University. He received his BA summa cum laude in Art History, Philosophy, and Classics from Concordia College in 1994 and took his MA in Art History from Vanderbilt University in 1997. He received his PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Athens in 2003 with his dissertation Το εικονογραφικό πρόγραμμα του ναού της Αθηνάς Νίκης στην Ακρόπολη. Professor Schultz has held advanced fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, the American School of Classical Studies, Athens -- and many others. He's the editor of Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context (with Ralf von den Hoff; 2007 Cambridge University Press), Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Ritual, Context, Iconography (with Jesper Jensen, George Hinge and Bronwen Wickkiser; 2009 Århus University Press), Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World (with Ralf von den Hoff; 2009 Oxbow Press), Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (with Kristen Seaman; 2017 Cambridge University Press), Speaking the Past: Heritage, Discourse, and Publishing in the Digital Age (with Helle Hochscheid; Theran Press 2021), and the author of numerous articles on ancient Greek architecture, art, cult, and topography. Schultz's most recent academic books are The Thymele at Epidauros: Healing, Space, and Musical Performance in Late Classical Greece (co-authored with Bronwen Wickkiser, George Hinge, Chyrsanthos Kanellopoulos, and John Franklin; 2017 Theran Press) and Midwest Mediterranean. Finding Health & Flavor with the Foods of the North (co-authored with David Clardy, Megan Myrdal, Fadel Nammour, William Schultz and Noreen Thomas; Theran Press 2021),  His research interests include the history of architecture, ancient Greek art and archaeology, archaeological theory, ecological theory, as well as modern Greek poetry, music, feasting, and landscape. He's currently working on a monograph that treat the sculptural program of the temple of Athena Nike in Athens with David Gill and Mike Lippman, a Greek counterpart to Peter Stewart’s A Social History of Roman Art for Cambridge University Press, a series of YA fantasy novels set in the Kingdom of Remain, and a number of freelance projects.

Academic interests: the history of architecture and art; ecological theory; information theory and cryptographic systems; archaeologies of mind, ritual, and cult; social and material culture; ancient Greek philosophy, history, and religion; the social history of art; architectural theory; the Classical tradition; and modern Greek music, feasting, poetry, and landscape.

Leadership interests: social entrepreneurship; publishing; ecological conservation; fund raising; crypto; global pedagogy; and the use of revolutionary philosophies and technologies for the advancement of the arts, the environment, and humanity.

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Supervisors: Όλγα Παλαγγιά , Μανώλης Κορρές, Ισμήνη Τριάντη, Πέτρος Θέμελης , Βαλαβάνης Πάνος, Barbara Tsakirgis, and Vivien Green Fryd
Phone: ++1.701.866.8660