R. Ross Holloway (FAC)

R. Ross Holloway, of Carrboro, N.C.; June 20, 2022. In 1964, after two years of teaching at Princeton and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he joined the classics department at Brown and rose from assistant professor to associate professor in 1967 and full professor in 1970. In 1978, he teamed up with Brown art historian Rolf Winkes and founded the Center for Classical Archaeology and Art at Brown. He was awarded a named chair as Brown’s Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor in 1990. In 1989 to 1990, the Archaeological Institute of America selected him as their Charles Eliot Norton lecturer and, in 1995, awarded him the gold medal for distinguished archaeological achievement, its highest honor. During the course of his career, he published 33 books, 151 articles, and 50 book reviews. He directed four major excavations in South Italy and Sicily. He promoted the publication of such substantial fieldwork through the series Archaeologia Transatlantica. He was a fellow of various professional organizations and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Field Archaeology and the American Journal of Archaeology. In 1984, Prof. Martha Sharp Joukowsky joined him at the Center; he was its director from 1978 to 1987 and again from 1994 to 2000. The Center further expanded in 2006 and became the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. He is survived by two daughters and five grandchildren.