American School Welcomes Denver Graninger as New Mellon Professor

The American School is delighted to welcome Denver Graninger, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, as the new Mellon Professor of Archaeology. Denver has long experience with the School as student (Regular Member and Jameson Fellow, 2002–2003), faculty (Carpenter Fellow, 2008–2010; Gertrude Smith Professor, summer 2016), and Managing Committee member (2013–present, including service on the Admissions and Fellowships, 2015–2019, and Executive Committees, 2021–2024). He has been active in the field of international education through his term as Director and Professor of the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS), Bulgaria (2010–2012), his organization of UCR study-abroad programs in Athens (2015, 2016, and 2018), and his service on the UCR and UC-systemwide Senate Committees for International Education (2020–2023). He also serves as co-chair of the Committee on Professional Conduct for the Association of Ancient Historians. 

Denver recently published a peer-reviewed paper on the Thessalian Eleutheria in S. Scharff, ed., Beyond the Big Four: Local Games in Ancient Greek Athletic Culture (Munster 2024): https://doi.org/10.17879/tso-2024-vol4. In July, he submitted an invited chapter (15,000 words) on “Citizens, Townsmen, and the Agroikos” to the editors of the new Oxford History of the Classical Greek World. He continues working on his current book project, a social history of Larisa from the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.

During his term as Mellon Professor, Graninger looks forward to “integrating the Regular Program in a series of expanding contexts: a local context rooted in the extraordinary range of research that takes place under the School’s umbrella; a broader peer context, including members of other foreign archaeological schools in Athens and graduate students in Greek universities; and, finally, the context of professional development for Student Members.”