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Will Pedrick is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on Greek art and archaeology.  He received his B.A. (highest distinction, Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Virginia in Art History and Archaeology, his Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.A. in Art & Archaeology from Princeton University.  Will is interested in the depiction of depth, time, and setting in ancient art and the relationship between art history and archaeology.  His dissertation traces the development of the hanging object as a perspectival device in Archaic and Classical art and the hanging of objects as a cultural practice in ancient life. 

An active field archaeologist, Will has excavated in Cyprus with the Athienou Archaeological Project and the Yeronisos Island Expedition, in Greece with the Delos Underwater Survey and the Levitha Underwater Survey, and in Italy with the American Excavations at Morgantina, where he currently serves as a supervisor for the Agora Valley Project.  He spent the 2023-24 academic year as an Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens thanks to the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship.  In 2024–25, he was a Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow and an IvyPlus Exchange Scholar in the Classics Department at Cornell University.  He will be the 2025–26 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome.