Instructors

The faculty who designed and instruct in the Summer Institute in Materials Science and Material Culture [SIMSMC] are members of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering [DMSE]. Many are also members of the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology [CMRAE], a consortium of Boston-area institutions that promotes the use of science and engineering in the pursuit of archaeological, anthropological, and art historical knowledge. These two entitites provide the intellectual resources and infrastructure necessary to the SIMSMC endeavor.

• Samuel M. Allen

Posco Professor of Physical Metallurgy


• David F. Grose

Professor of Classics and Anthropology


• Elizabeth Hendrix

Research Scientist in Archaeological Materials


• Linn W. Hobbs

Professor of Materials Science


• Dorothy Hosler

Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology


• Heather Lechtman

Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology

The DMSE faculty who developed the SI plan were central to the establishment at MIT of the new Archaeology and Materials undergraduate major as well as the new Ph.D. program in Archaeological Materials. CMRAE faculty have been carrying out research and developing curricula for graduate and undergraduate students in the field of archaeological science for the past 25 years. Professor Hosler's and Lechtman's research is at the forefront of the subfield they are recognized as having created: the materials science of material culture.