Adam T Rabinowitz

Adam T Rabinowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Assistant Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses on classical archaeology, digital approaches to antiquity, and ancient Greek culture. His academic journey began with a PhD from the University of Michigan in 2004, where he completed a dissertation on communal wine-drinking in the colonial Greek world.

Rabinowitz's research interests span multiple domains of classical scholarship, with particular focus on Greek colonization, cultural interaction, ancient food and drink practices, the archaeology of daily life, and innovative digital approaches to archaeological documentation and publication. His fieldwork experience spans 25 years across Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sites in Italy, England, Israel, Tunisia, and Ukraine, with significant work at the Chersonesos site in Crimea.

His scholarly output reveals a clear trajectory from traditional archaeological research toward digital humanities applications, with recent publications emphasizing digital data preservation, spatial visualization of archaeological information, and the challenges of maintaining scholarly authority in digital publishing environments. This evolution reflects his growing investment in developing sustainable digital infrastructure for archaeological research.

• Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2002)

Rabinowitz has developed several significant digital humanities projects including Pleiades (a spatial gazetteer of ancient places), GeoDia (an interactive spatial timeline of Mediterranean archaeology), Hestia2 (a narrative time-map of Herodotus's Histories), and PeriodO (a gazetteer of scholarly period definitions). His collaborative work with the Texas Advanced Computing Center has focused on developing strategies for the long-term preservation of digital archaeological data, creating a reflexive system that tracks the entire research lifecycle from primary data collection through interpretation.

His fieldwork at Chersonesos has particularly informed his interest in sustainable, locally-directed heritage documentation, exemplified by his work implementing Reflectance Transformation Imaging with staff at the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos in Ukraine.