Andrea U. De Giorgi is Professor of Classical Studies at Florida State University. A scholar  of Roman urbanism, he has directed archaeological projects in Italy, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Georgia, and Jordan. He is the author of Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest  (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and co-author of Antioch: A History (Routledge, 2021), which won the Ernest Wright Book Award. He currently manages the publication of the Antioch collections stored at the Princeton University Art Museum.