Louise A. Hitchcock’s BA in Political Science is from USC (1973). Her MA in Ancient History (1987) and PhD in Ancient Art History (1998) is from UCLA. She taught Art History and Anthropology for 10 years in the California State University system and worked for 10 years as photo-archivist and research assistant at the Getty Research Institute. Louise retired from 19 years of teaching archaeology at Melbourne University in 2023. Louise has undertaken research in Cyprus, Greece, Syria, Egypt, and Israel. Her research interests are Late Bronze Age Mediterranean architecture, identity, gender, space, cultural entanglement, and piracy. The Australian Research Council and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory funded her excavations at the Philistine site of Tell es-Safi/Gath, where she trained numerous volunteers. Her discoveries are published in collaboration with an international team led by Prof Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University. She is a member of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR). Louise’s competitive fellowships include a Fulbright, 2 NEH, USAID, and Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her books include Minoan Architecture: A Contextual Analysis (SIMA), Theory for Classics (Routledge), Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford, co-author: Donald Preziosi). She is also co-editor of: DAIS: The Aegean Feast (Aegaeum 29), Festschrift for Aren Maeir; and Plague in Antiquity (Ancient Near Eastern Suppl 65). Louise has (co-)authored over 100 articles.