Meet the director

Dr. Kim Shelton is the Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology. Dr. Shelton oversees operations in the field in Greece as well as on campus in Berkeley. Over the past decade, she has assembled a dynamic team of researchers and students to help the Center fulfill its ongoing mission of research, teaching, and learning.

Kim Shelton (PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor of Classics and the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA). She is an Aegean prehistorian with interests in domestic architecture, ceramic production and economy, and religious ritual. She is the author of several publications on Mycenaean pottery, figurines, cemeteries, the Tsountas House Area of the Cult Center, and her excavation at Petsas House, Mycenae. At Cal, she advises undergraduate and graduate students throughout their careers in the department (and beyond!) and she has offered many popular courses. Some crowd favorites include courses about mythology, Greek sanctuaries, the Trojan War, Greek vase painting, Indiana Jones and the Elgin Marbles, Mycenae, the art & archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age, and an Introduction to Greek Archaeology.