UB Classicist Re-Elected President of Archaeological Institute of America

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Stephen L. Dyson, professor and chair of the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, has been elected to his second two-year term as president of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).

With more than 10,000 members, the AIA is the oldest and largest archaeological organization in North America. The organization publishes the American Journal of Archaeology and Archaeology magazine and sponsors conferences, colloquia and lectures throughout the United States.

Dyson is a specialist in Roman archaeology, Roman social and economic history, and archaeological theory and has participated in fieldwork in Italy, Sardinia, France and the United States. He has received many academic honors during his career, including several fellowships and research grants from both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

A former president of the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome, Dyson has lectured widely at universities and archaeological conferences throughout the U.S. His research is published extensively in archaeological journals.

He has held his present position at UB since 1991 and previously taught at Wesleyan University, Yale University and the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

He is a summa cum laude graduate of Brown University with highest honors in classics and in 1961 received a diploma in classical archaeology from Oxford University (England) as a Fulbright scholar. He holds a master's of arts degree and a doctorate from Yale University.