Biography

P. Gregory Warden is the former Editor of Etruscan Studies, a journal of Etruscan and Italic art and culture, a trustee of the Etruscan Foundation, Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, and a foreign member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi e Italici.

Warden has taught at SMU since 1982, where he was named Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1995; he previously taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored or co-authored four books as well as over fifty articles and reviews in journals such as the American Journal of Archaeology, Art History, Studi Etruschi, Römische Mitteilungen, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the International Foundation for Art Research Journal.

Warden has worked on Greek archaeology (the Demeter sanctuary at Cyrene), Etruscan art and ritual, and Roman architecture (the Villa of the Papyri and the Domus Aurea). In 2003 Warden organized the exhibit, Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative. Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid at the Meadows Museum. In 2009 he coordinated, edited, and wrote part of the catalogue, From the Temple and the Tomb. Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany, the largest and most comprehensive exhibit on the Etruscans in North America. A native of Italy, Warden is the founder, Principal Investigator, and co-Director of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and excavations at Poggio Colla, an Etruscan settlement northeast of Florence, a joint mission of SMU, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology. Since 1995 this international project has trained students from over 60 universities and included scholars from seven countries. The research project has been featured in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, in the European media, as well as on the Discovery Channel. Warden’s current research investigates the construction of experience in the social landscape of ancient Italy, Etruscan ritual and performance, somatic interpretations of Italic architecture and sacred space, and concepts monstrosity in the ancient Mediterranean.