Professor Clarke received his Ph.D. from Yale University. In 1980 he began teaching at The University of Texas at Austin, where his teaching, research, and publications focus on ancient Roman art and archaeology, art-historical methodology, and contemporary art. Clarke has seven books and over 100 essays, articles, and reviews to his credit. The books include Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics (1979; rev. ed. 2006); The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration (1991); Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (1998);  Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315 (2003); Roman Sex, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (2003); Roman Life:100 BC-AD 200 (2007); and Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (2007). He is co-director of the Oplontis Project.

Michael L. Thomas received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History (EODIAH) at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has excavated in Italy for 20 years and he currently co-directs two Italian projects: the Oplontis Project and the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project in Tuscany. He currently teaches at UT Dallas, and has taught at UT Austin, Southern Methodist University, the University of Michigan, and Tufts University. He currently serves on the advisory council for the Meadows Museum of Art in Dallas. Thomas’s teaching and research focus on Etruscan and Roman Italy. His publications include articles in the Journal of Roman Archaeology, the American Journal of Numismatics, Etruscan Studies, and the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. He co-edited Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture, published by the University of Texas Press in 2012, and is co-editor of a forthcoming third volume on Villa A at Oplontis.

Ivo van der Graaff is director of excavations and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He earned his combined BA and MA in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Amsterdam, and his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Van der Graaff has participated in archaeological research projects in the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, and Italy over the last two decades. His first monograph, The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy, was published by Routledge in 2018. Van der Graaff has also published numerous articles and excavation reports.