Thea De Armond
Contact Info:
Breland 242
Education:
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.A., New Mexico State University
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research and Teaching Interests:
Histories of archaeology, archaeological theory, public archaeology, prisons and incarceration, classical receptions, central and eastern Europe, Greece, Rome, and Egypt.
Thea grew up in Las Cruces, the child of an American father and Czech mother. Her research draws on these roots: she has produced articles on the history of classics and archaeology in Czechoslovakia and is in the process of writing a book on the 1922 Penitentiary of New Mexico uprising.
Thea is a field-going archaeologist and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in five countries and ten states with academic institutions, private contractors, the US Forest Service, and the National Park Service.
Selected Publications:
De Armond, Thea. “ Toward a Prosopography of Archaeology from the Margins.” In Life Writing in the History of Archaeology, edited by Clare Lewis and Gabriel Moshenka, 73-90. UCL Press , 2023.
De Armond, Thea. “ A Romance and a Tragedy: Antonín Salač and the French School at Athens.” In Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology, edited by Julia Roberts, Kathleen L. Shepperd, Jonathon Ralph Trigg, and Ulf R. Hansson, 88-108. Manchester University Press, 2020.
De Armond, Thea. “One Thousand Pieces of Eyes”: Antonín Salač in Greece (1920-1921).” Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina 54, no. 1-2 (2018): 169-191.
De Armond, Thea. “ The Climate Change Classics Needs: Broadening the Conversation around Harassment and Discrimination.” Eidolon, March 26, 2018.
Ceserani, Giovanna, Giorgio Caviglia, Nicole Coleman, Thea De Armond, Sarah Murray, and Molly Tylor-Poleskey. “British Travelers in 18th-century Italy: The Grand Tour and the Profession of Architecture.” American Historical Review 122, no. 2 (2017): 425-450.
Courses:
History 1130G: World History I
History 329: History of Egypt
History 371: Ancient Greece
History 372: Roman World
History 596: Graduate Research Seminar
History 598: Craft of History
