Brian Rose is James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at Penn, Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum, and Chair of the Graduate Group in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Since 1988, Brian Rose has been Head of Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy, and is English language editor of Studia Troica, the annual journal of the Troy excavations. His new survey project in the Granicus River Valley focuses on recording and mapping the Graeco-Persian tombs that dominate the area. His research has also concentrated on the political and artistic relationship between Rome and the provinces. He is Vice President of the American Research Institute in Turkey, President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome.