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Glowacki, Kevin

Associate Professor

Positions:

Associate Professor, Architecture, School of Architecture

Research Areas:

Historic sites, Architecture, Domestic, Archaeology, Greece

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kglowacki@tamu.edu

1 979 845 8194

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ORCID

0000-0003-1045-7867

Research Areas:

Historic sites, Architecture, Domestic, Archaeology, Greece

overview

Kevin Glowacki is an archaeologist and architectural historian with over 30 years of experience excavating and documenting sites in the Mediterranean. His most recent research focuses on vernacular architecture at the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age settlement of Kavousi Vronda and the formative stages of the Bronze Age Minoan city of Gournia, both sites located in eastern Crete (Greece). At Texas A&M, Glowacki is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, where he teaches courses in architectural history and heritage of the built environment. Glowacki has been a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Heritage Conservation since 2006, served as Director of the CHC from 2016 to 2021, and served as co-editor of Preservation Education and Research, the journal of the National Council for Preservation Education from 2009 to 2012. He is the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Archaeological Institute of America, the ING Professor of Excellence Award, and the Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Award from Texas A&M University.

education and training

Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College - (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States) 1991
M.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College - (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States) 1987
M.A. in Classical Studies, Loyola University Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States) 1985
A.B. in Latin; Greek, Loyola University Chicago - (Chicago, Illinois, United States) 1983

selected publications

Academic Articles11

Nichols, J. M., Mashadi, A., Feigenbaum, L. H., & Glowacki, K. T. (2019). Differences in flexural strength measurements between an Australian standard bond wrench and ASTM E518 beam test. Masonry International. 29(3), 93-100.
Glowacki, K. T. (2016). New Insights into Bronze Age Eleusis and the Formative Stages of the Eleusinian Cults. American Journal of Archaeology. 120(4), 673-673.
Watrous, L. V., Buell, D. M., McEnroe, J. C., Younger, J. G., Turner, L. A., Kunkel, B. S., ... Margaritis, E. (2015). EXCAVATIONS AT GOURNIA, 2010-2012. HESPERIA. 84(3), 397-465.
Glowacki, K. (2009). THE PARTHENON: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY. 113(2), 296-299.
Glowacki, K. (2003). A personification of Demos on a new Attic document relief. HESPERIA. 72(4), 447-466.

Books3

Day, L. P., Dierckx, H., Flint-Hamilton, K., Gesell, G. C., Glowacki, K. T., Klein, N. L., Reese, D. S., & Snyder, L. (2016). Kavousi IIC: The LM IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Specialist Reports (Prehistory Monographs 52). INSTAP Academic Press.
Day, L. P., & Glowacki, K. T. (2012). Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Periphery (Prehistory Monographs 39). Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press.
Glowacki, K. T., & Vogelkoff-Brogan, N. (2011). STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete (Hesperia Supplement 44). Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Chapters17

Campagnol, G., Caffey, S., Clayton, M. J., Glowacki, K., Klein, N., Kang, J., & Booth, G. (2020). Unreal Projects: Using Immersive Visualization to Learn About Distant and Historical Locales. Digital Cities: Between History and Archaeology. 279-298. Oxford University Press.
Day, L. P., Glowacki, K. T., & Klein, N. L. (2016). Building a Traditional Oven at Vronda. Glowacki, K. T., Klein, N. L., Dierckx, H., Flint-Hamilton, K., Reese, D. S., & Snyder, L. M. (Eds.), Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. 233-236. INSTAP Academic Press.
Glowacki, K. T. (2016). Estimates of Vessel Capacities of LM IIIC Pottery from Vronda. Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda: Specialist Reports and Analyses. 241-246. INSTAP Academic Press.
Klein, N., & Glowacki, K. (2016). The Architecture of Vronda. Klein, N. L., Glowacki, K. T., Dierckx, H., Flint-Hamilton, K., Reese, D. S., & Snyder, L. M. (Eds.), Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. 1-46. INSTAP Academic Press.
Klein, N. L., & Glowacki, K. T. (2016). The Architecture of Vronda. Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda: Specialist Reports and Analyses. 1-46. INSTAP Academic Press.

Conference Papers4

Glowacki, K. T., Nichols, J. M., & Holland, N. L. (2012). Structural Aspects of Traditional Cretan Masonry. Proceedings of the 15th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, 15th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference. 1-10.
Glowacki, K., & Dafedar, S. (2010). Modeling Domestic Architecture at Late Minoan IIIC Vronda, Kavousi, Crete. 111th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Day, L., Glowacki, K. T., & Klein, N. L. (2000). Cooking and Dining in Late Minoan IIIC Vronda, Kavousi. Proceedings of the 8th International Cretological Congress. (A3), 115-125.
Glowacki, K. T. (1992). Archaic Sculpture from the North Slope of the Akropolis. American Journal of Archaeology. 96(2), 343-344.