Peter Anthony Thompson

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek archaeology; archaism and retrospection in ancient visual-material culture; visualization practices in archaeology; ancient pasts in popular culture; history of archaeology and museums.

Peter Anthony Thompson (BA MPhil Oxford) came to the Institute in 2019, where he is writing a dissertation on archaism and retrospection in visual-material cultures of the Archaic Greek world. He has worked at museums in England, Greece, and the United States and has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Spain, Turkey, and Italy. In 2021–22 he was Hill Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he returned in 2022–23 as Kress Fellow in the Art and Architecture of Antiquity. Alongside his dissertation, Peter studies the history of archaeology’s various interactions with photography and popular media.