Gisela Walberg

Gisela Walberg is the Marion Rawson Professor of Aegean Prehistory at the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. She previously taught for two years at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala. Her fieldwork includes excavations in Sweden, Crete, Cyprus, and surveys in Greece and Italy, with ongoing excavation direction at Midea in the Argolid since 1985.

Her research focuses on Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, emphasizing methodology and chronology. She has published 9 books, monographs, and 67 articles, with a forthcoming publication on the 1994–1997 Midea excavations. Walberg has received grants and fellowships from the Swedish Institutes in Athens and Rome, the German State, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, National Geographic, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory.

She co-produced an interdisciplinary educational project with the University of Cincinnati’s Senior Graphic Design Class and the Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites, resulting in an interactive CD-ROM on Midea that earned the Chris Award. Walberg teaches undergraduate courses on ancient Egyptian art and archaeology and graduate-level classes on Bronze Age Crete, Cyprus, and the Greek mainland, including recent seminars on the Late Bronze Age collapse and Mycenaean society.