Thomas M. Brogan Appointed Director of the School
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas M. Brogan as its Director, effective July 1, 2027. Dr. Brogan succeeds Bonna D. Wescoat as Director of the School.
Dr. Brogan received his B.A. in Classics from Wabash College in 1988, magna cum laude, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Brogan currently serves as Executive Director of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) and as Director of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, a position he has held since 1997.
Dr. Brogan's ties to the American School span four decades. He attended the Summer Session in 1986, served as a Regular Member and Fulbright Fellow in 1992–1993, and held the Spitzer Fellowship in 1993–1994. As a Senior Associate Member since 1999, he has co-organized the School's Crete Trip for Regular Year students since 2011 and most recently served as Alumni Council Representative to the Managing Committee (2025–2026). He has participated in the American School's excavations at Mochlos since 1989, at Kavousi in 1987, and at Corinth in 1993, and has lectured at the School on numerous occasions.
William T. (Rob) Loomis, President of the Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, remarked: “Tom Brogan is a widely respected scholar with a long and successful record as an administrator of a multi-national archaeological institution and a winning personality. I am very excited that he will be the next Director of the School!”
Professor Kathleen M. Lynch, Chair of the Managing Committee of the American School, stated: “Tom Brogan brings to the Directorship scholarly excellence in Aegean prehistory, especially the archaeology of Crete, along with exceptional administrative experience from his time as the Director of the Institute for the Study of Aegean Prehistory’s East Crete Study Center. Tom’s warm personality will also ensure the School continues to be a welcoming place.”
Thomas M. Brogan with his wife, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen C. Spitzer Director of Archives at the American School, at the Idaean Cave, Crete
photo courtesy of Ehsan Behbahani-Nia
Among Dr. Brogan’s major publications are the co-edited volumes Late Minoan IB Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences (Danish Institute at Athens, 2011) and Porphyra: The Materiality of Purple Dye Production and Use in Cyprus and the Aegean (2025). He is the 2019 recipient of the AIA Joukowsky Lectureship and has served as a reviewer for Hesperia, the American Journal of Archaeology, and other leading journals.
Dr. Brogan’s appointment reflects the American School’s enduring commitment to scholarly excellence, archaeological research, and the cultivation of future generations of students and scholars.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN SCHOOL
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the leading American research and teaching institution in Greece dedicated to the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture from prehistory to the present. Founded in 1881 as the first American overseas research center, the School is a consortium of nearly 200 universities, colleges, and other academic institutions in the United States and Canada, centered in Athens with an administrative base in Princeton, NJ. Today the School is the largest of the 19 foreign research institutes in Greece.
Its facilities, programs, and resources include excavations in the Athenian Agora and Ancient Corinth; two distinguished libraries, the Blegen and the Gennadius; a department of Archives and Personal Papers; the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science; and an award-winning publications program. The School offers students and scholars wide-ranging opportunities to engage in research initiatives centered on Greek history and culture. In addition, the School fosters a dynamic environment through exhibitions, lectures, and concerts that encourage the exchange of knowledge and promote interaction across many audiences. As its founders envisioned, the School remains a privately funded, nonprofit educational and research center.