Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, will deliver the Townsend Lectures in the Department of Classics at Cornell on April 10, 12 and 15.

Since 1985, the Prescott W. Townsend Memorial Fund has supported annual lectures given by scholars of international reputation. The lectures, revised for publication, are published by Cornell University Press in the series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.

Morris’ research involves the interaction of Greece with its Eastern neighbors, in art, literature, religion and culture. Her chief book on the subject, “Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art” (Princeton, 1992) won the James Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America for 1993. She is also a practicing field archaeologist who has worked in Israel, Turkey, Greece and Albania, and has recently completed a field project at Methone in northern Greece.

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