Jon Frey
Associate Professor of Classical Studies; Art History & Visual Culture
Jon Frey teaches courses on the classical world, classical mythology, ancient art and archaeology.
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Jon Frey received his BA in Ancient History and Classics from the Ohio State University and his MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Art and Art History and the Department of French Classics and Italian since 2007 where he teaches courses on the Classical World, Classical Mythology, Ancient Art and Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology. He has participated in archaeological projects in Egypt, Crete and Greece ... and currently serves as field coordinator at the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia. His most recent publication, “Pausanias, William Martin Leake and the “Depopulation” of Ancient Greece,” in Archaeology and History of Medieval and Post Medieval Greece (Ashgate, 2008), explores the role early travelers have played in shaping the research goals of classical archaeologists today. His current research focuses on the phenomenon of spoliation as evidence for individual and local agency in late antiquity. Each summer, Prof. Frey leads a study abroad program in Greece.
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University of California at Berkeley: Ph.D.,
University of California at Berkeley: M.A.,
Selected Press
MSU Excavations at Isthmia to Use Radio Wave Tracking for Its Collection
MSU Today | 2023-10-11
The MSU Excavations at Isthmia, led by Jon Frey, Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, will soon become one of the first archeological sites in Greece to use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to digitally track its collection.
‘The core of who we are’
City Pulse | 2023-06-22
Bridges and his staff are working with MSU experts like archaeologist Jon Frey, a specialist in digital archaeology, and media design specialist Daniel Trego, to use technology to create 3-D scans and models of artworks and even convert flat works, like drawings and paintings, to contoured objects that make them accessible to visually impaired people.
Exhibit Explores MSU’s Archaeological Excavations in Greece
MSU Today | 2022-01-20
Since fall 2020, Jon Frey, Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, has directed the MSU Excavations at Isthmia. Under his guidance, the project has renewed decades-old discoveries and made them accessible to the public through extensive auditing and digitization. Throughout this digital dig, another angle of archaeology has come to light — the unique relationship between archaeology as science and archaeology as art.
