Dr. Haskell teaches Latin and Greek language and literature classes. He believes in inspiring students to develop a passion for the study of ancient cultures and to respond in kind to those passions.

Since 1995, Dr. Haskell has participated in the virtual Classics program known as Sunoikisis, initially funded by the Mellon Foundation. Sunoikisis enables Classicists at various institutions to share resources of their programs that are individually small but collectively large. Projects include inter-institutional team-taught courses, an undergraduate research symposium, databases of various Classics resources, and the like.

Haskell received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981, his MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974, and his BA from Haverford College in 1972.

Dr. Haskell’s research area is in the Greek Bronze Age economy (ca. 1500-1200 B.C., the time of the legendary Trojan War). Through the examination of material remains (pottery, architecture, etc.) one reconstructs production areas and trade routes. These may be correlated with power centers such as Minoan Knossos, with its labyrinthine palace, and Mycenae, home of Agamemnon.

Dr. Haskell has been director of a long-term, interdisciplinary potteryanalysis project. His principle colleagues are Dr. R. Jones, an archaeological chemist at Glasgow University (chemical analyses of clay fabric and contents), Dr. P. Day, a petrographer at Sheffield University (petrographic analyses of fabric), and Dr. J. Killen, a world authority at Cambridge University on early Greek scripts. Dr. Haskell’s specialty is the study of the shape and decoration of the vases, which yield clues regarding origins and trade.

Major publications include “From Palace to Town Administration: The Evidence of Coarse-Ware Stirrup Jars,” in Minoan Society: Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium 1981, O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon, eds., Bristol, 1983, pp. 121-128; “Pylos: Stirrup Jars and the International Oil Trade,” in Pylos Comes Alive: Industry + Administration in a Mycenaean Palace, C. Shelmerdine and T. Palaima, eds., New York, 1984, 97-107; Bronze Age pottery section, in C. Picon, Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art, University of Texas Press, 1995; “Mycenaeans on Crete: Patterns in the Evidence,” Bulletin de correspondence hellénique Supplément  30 (1997), 187-194; wanax to wanax: Regional Trade Patterns in Mycenaean Crete, in Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr, A. Chapin, ed., Hesperia Suppl. 33 (2004), 151-160; and “Region to Region Export of Transport Stirrup jars from LM IIIA2/B Crete,” in Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Athens, Scuola Archeologica Italiana, 5-6 April 2003, “Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in the Post Palatial Period (Late Minoan IIIA2 to LM IIIC),” A.L. D’Agata, J. Moody, eds. Tripodes 3 (2005), 205-221; review of The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, E. Cline (ed.), (Oxford University Press, 2010), in American Journal of Archaeology 115.2 (2011); “Crete’s Octopus Trademark,”Πρακτικα Γ’ Παγκρητιας Επιστημονικης Συναντησης, Rethymnon, 2016; “Seaborne from the beginning: Transport Stirrup Jars,” in Maritime Transport Containers in the Bronze-Iron Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, Stella Demesticha and A. Bernard Knapp (eds), Uppsala, 2016; “Elite Economic Relationships between Crete and Thebes,” Minos, in press.

Joint publications include an article with petrographer Peter Day (Sheffield), “Transport Stirrup Jars from Thebes as Evidence for Trade in Late Bronze Age Greece,” in Trade and Production in Premonetary Greece: Aspects of Trade, C. Gillis, C. Risberg, B. Sjoberg, eds., Jonsered, 1995, pp. 87-109; and with R.E. Jones, P.M. Day, and J.T. Killen, Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean, Philadelphia, 2011 [frontmatter]; rev. by Dr. V. Petrakis here; rev. by A. Vianello here.
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Among Dr. Haskell’s presentations are “Cretan Overseas Connections in Late Minoan IIIC: The Contribution of Transport Stirrup Jars,” refereed paper, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Washington DC, January 2020; “Ancients Exploiting the Past for Propaganda,” invited paper, Rhodes College, January 2020;  “Rome and Beyond. A Beginning Latin Textbook. The Revision Process, Collaboration with Students,” Annual Meeting, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Birmingham, March 2020; An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Study of Ancient Ceramics: Aegean Transport Stirrup Jars,” “Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Materials from the Mediterranean” refereed paper, conference at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 17-19 September 2014 (see text text; news story here); “Seaborne from the Beginning: Transport Stirrup Jars,” European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, September 2015; “Meandering through Late Minoan III Crete, Proust, Pottery, and Palaces,” invited lecture, College Year in Athens / ΔΙΚΕΜΕΣ, April 2014; “The Classification and Chronology of Ceramics [at Hacimusalar] Using the WWW,” Conference on Ancient Studies – New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies, Salve Regina University, December 2000; “New Views: Scientific Archaeology and Postpalatial Trade on Crete,” invited paper, Goteborg University and Lund University, March 1995; St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, April 1995; Archaeological Institute of America National Lecture Tour, October 1996; “Marble Provenance Determination by ESR Study of Trace Levels of Mn(II),” joint paper, gen. mtg., AIA, December 1983.