Martha Risser, Associate Professor of Classics, teaches courses on ancient art, archaeology, Greek, Latin, and classical civilization. Her scholarly interests focus on Classical art and archaeology, especially Greek pottery. Professor Risser has participated in archaeological projects in Greece, Israel, Turkey, Italy and the United States. She currently conducts research at Isthmia, Greece, and at Akko, Israel.  

Books

Corinth VII,v. Corinthian Conventionalizing Pottery . American School of Classical Studies Publications, Princeton, 2001.

Isthmia. Sanctuary Pottery of the Mid-6^th through 4^th Centuries (in process).

Isthmia. The West Cemetery (in process).

Articles and Chapters in Books

“Summary of the Late Roman and Byzantine Pottery” (Michael Zimmerman and Elizabeth Szylejko), Chapter 5 in The U-Shaped Building at Caesarea Maritima: A Garden Attached to the Praetorium, by Jane DeRose Evans and Jennifer Tobin. ASOR Archaeological Reports 32, Alexandria, VA (forthcoming autumn 2025).

“Archaic-Classical Pottery,” in Sikyon I. The Urban Survey, By Yannis Lolos, Dimitris Bartzis, Michael Charno, Ben Gourley, Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Chris L. Hayward, Sarah A. James, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Dimitra Lykoudi, Matthew Maher, Irini Marathaki, M. Shariat Panahi, Martha Risser, Apostolos Sarris, Daniel R. Stewart, Peter Stone, Conor Trainor, Elli Tzavella and Ioulia Tzonou. ?????????? 82, Athens 2021.

 “A Phoenician Bearded Mask from Tel Akko” (with Rachel Ben-Dov, Ragna Stidsing, Jane C. Skinner, Michal Artzy, and Ann E. Killebrew) Ex Oriente Lux, Studies in Honour of Jolanta Mlynarczyk, ed. K. Jakubiak, A. Lajtar, Warsaw University Press, Warsaw 2020, pp. 261-279.

“The City, the Sanctuary, and the Feast. Evidence from a Pottery Assemblage at Isthmia,” in The Bridge of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Hesperia Supplement 48), edited by Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Timothy E. Gregory, Princeton, 2015, pp. 83-96.

“The belt of Stephanos: gold belt ornaments found in area LL, 1996 and 1998 seasons,” pp. 59-65 in Caesarea Reports and Studies. Excavations 1995-2007 within the Old City and the Ancient Harbor, K.G. Holum, J.A. Stabler, and E.G. Reinhardt eds., BAR International Series 1784, 2008.

“The warehouse quarter (area LL) and the Temple Platform (area TP), 1996-2000 and 2002 seasons,” (with J. Stabler, K.G. Holum, and F. H. Stanley, Jr.), pp. 1-39 in Caesarea Reports and Studies. Excavations 1995-2007 within the Old City and the Ancient Harbor, K.G. Holum, J.A. Stabler, and E.G. Reinhardt eds., BAR International Series 1784, 2008.

“Classical Greek Fine Wares at Tel Megadim as Compared to other Persian Period Sites in the Levant,” pp. 136-140 in Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities. Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003, edited by Carol C. Mattusch, A.A. Donohoe, and Amy Brauer.  Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica. Oxford, 2006.

“Corinthian Archaic and Classical Pottery: The Local Style.” pp. 157-165 in Corinth XX. The Centenary, 1896-1996, edited by Charles K Williams II and Nancy Bookidis. American School of Classical Studies Publications, Princeton, 2003.

“Terra Firma,” pp. 149-159 in Method and Truth. The Search for Norms across the Disciplines, edited by Berel Lang. Trinity College, Hartford, 2002.

“Gold from the Combined Caesarea Expeditions, 1996,” Biblical Archaeologist 59, 1996 (with F. Winter).

 "Coinage and Federation on Hellenistic Keos" (with Gary Reger). Pp. 305-317 in Landscape Archaeology as Long-term History. Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands. Monumenta Archaeologica 16. Edited by J. Davis, J. Cherry, and E. Mantzourani. University of California Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles 1991.

 Contributor  to Active Learning: Teachers on Teaching at Trinity, 1990, edited by Dan Lloyd. Trinity College, Hartford, 1990.

 "Imported Aegean Fine Ware in the First Millennium B.C.E." (with J.A. Blakely),  pp. 68-137 in  Tell el-Hesi: The Persian Period (Stratum V). Excavation Reports of the American Schools of Oriental Research: Tell el Hesi 3. Edited by W.J. Bennett Jr. and J.A. Blakely. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana 1989.

 "The Ceramic Data Base and Studies of Trade" (with Gary Reger). Pp. 67-69 in Analysis and Publication of Ceramics. The Computer Data Base in Archaeology. British Archaeological Reports International Series 551, edited by J.A. Blakely and W.J. Bennett, Jr.  Oxford: 1989.

 "The Chronology of Strata V and IV at Hesi" (with J.A. Blakely). Trowel and Patish 11.1, 1988.

 "Attic Pottery at Hesi" (with J.A. Blakely). Trowel and Patish 7.1, 1984.

 Reviews

Review of Cult Material from Archaeological Deposits to Interpretation of Early Greek Religion, edited by P. Pakkanen and S. Bocher. Helsinki: The Finnish Institute at Athens, 2015. The Classical Review 69 (2), 2019, pp. 575-576

Review of Women in the Ancient World, by Jenifer Neils. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. New England Classical Journal 40.1 (2013) 57-60.

Review of Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture, by Pat Getz-Gentle. University of Wisconsin, 2002. New England Classical Journal 30.3 (2003) 168-171.

Review of The Necropolis of  Hesban: A Typology of Tombs. By S. Douglas Waterhouse, with contributions by Anne L. Grauer, George J. Armelagos, and Howard P. Krug. Hesban 10. Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1998. Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 71-72.

Review of Argolis, Lakonien, Messenien Vom Ende der mykenischen Palastzeit bis zur Einwanderung der Dorier, by Birgitta Eder. Verööffentlichungen der Mykenischen Kommission 17. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1998. In Review of Biblical Literature 1999. http://www.bookreviews.org/Reviews/3700127367.html

Conference Presentations and Panels 

Chair, Session 3, July 14, 2020 CANE Annual Meeting.

 “A Quantitative and Chronological Analysis of Lamps from the JECM Excavations at Caesarea Maritima,” with Dr. Michael Zimmerman (Trinity College Class of 1999) and Elizabeth Szylejko, 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

“The Phasing and Stratigraphy of the Northern End of Field C at Caesarea Maritima,” with Dr. Michael Zimmerman (Trinity College Class of 1999) and Elizabeth (Hestand) Szylejko, 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Co-or

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, “Sacred Space at the Bridge of the Untiring Sea,” at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens, fall 2014.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Summer Stipend, 2000.