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Guest Lecturers
 Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California,
Los Angeles, has recently won considerable acclaim for his book Guns, Germs, and
Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and Britain’s Science Book
Prize. Translated into 25 languages, the book interprets differing societal histories in
terms of the differing biogeographic inheritances of peoples on different continents. He
writes frequent articles for the News and Views section of Nature, covering a wide range
of subjects, from conservation biology, animal behavior, and molecular evolution to linguistics,
archaeology, and anthropology.
Nancy Wilkie, Archaeological Institute of America (see website) lecturer, is a distinguished archaeologist and professor
who has led numerous study tours throughout the Mediterranean, including previous visits to
Libya and Tunisia. Nancy is a Professor of Classics and Anthropology at Carleton College, and has
authored more than 30 articles and co-edited three books on archaeology.
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