Dr Amira Bennison is a lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Cambridge University and ASA's coordinator, Middle East and North Africa. Amira gained first class honours in Arabic at St Catherine's College, Cambridge, where she won the Jarrett Prize for Oriental Studies. After living in Cairo, she completed a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She then wrote her doctoral dissertation at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published articles on North African history and has prepared her doctoral thesis for publication. She is the author of ASA's handbook to Morocco, has developed many of ASA's tours to Islamic countries, and has also written chapters on Islamic history and culture for other handbooks. She first joined ASA in 1997 as lecturer on our Morocco tour and now lectures for ASA in Morocco, Spain, Egypt, Syria and Central Asia.

Dr Pierre Bikai is Director of the American Centre of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan. He gained his PhD in Near Eastern Studies (Archaeology) from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. He has since directed the Petra II Project and the St George's Church Excavation, Amman. He has acted as Deputy Director of the University of California excavation at Nineveh, Iraq, as architect and archaeologist for the Brigham U. Young expedition to the Pyramid of Seila, Egypt, has surveyed the islands of Flores and Corvu in the Azores, has participated in the American Institute of Nautical Archaeology excavation of a Roman ship at Yassi Ada, Turkey, has been architect on the University of Pennsylvania excavation at Sarafand, Lebanon, and has published widely. Dr Bikai is ASA's lecturer in Jordan where he hosts us at the American centre and gives a special, intimate view of sites like Petra in which he has led archaeological teams and for which he has designed conservation policies and projects.

Ann Roberts Blain is an independent scholar who holds an MA in Languages and Fine Arts from Trinity College, Dublin. She is an Approved Commonwealth Valuer (Australia) in the fields of Chinese, Japanese and S.E. Asian Ceramics and Works of Art. She has worked for over 25 years in the fields of Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, and Australian Painting. She spent thirteen years with Sotheby's in London, principally in the Chinese Department, and prior to that, some time with Park Bernet Galleries in New York. During these years she travelled widely through Europe and S. Africa and later to Asia (including China and India). In 1979 she moved to Australia and in 1982 was one of the three founding members of Sotheby's Australia. She was a director of Sotheby's Australia, and Deputy Director of Sotheby's Asia. In 1995 she moved to San Francisco, where she acted as a Consultant in Asian Arts for Sotheby's, New York. From 1996 to 1999 she worked with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, both as an assistant to the Associate Curator of Chinese Arts and as a participant in their Docent Course, a three - year program focusing on the history of Asian Arts. Ann first joined ASA as tour leader for ASA's program to China in 2000.

Professor Anthony Bonanno has taught Archaeology and Classics since 1971 at the University of Malta, where he is now Head of Department. Among his more important publications on Roman art and Maltese archaeology are: Malta: An Archaeological Paradise; Excavations at Hal Millieri, Malta, a report on the excavation campaign conducted on behalf of the National Museum of Malta (co-author and co-editor with T.F.C. Blagg and A.T. Luttrell) and Roman Malta: The Archaeological Heritage of the Maltese Islands (Rome 1992). He is a graduate of the universities of Malta and Palermo, and the Institute of Archaeology, London University, where he obtained his PhD. Professor Bonanno lectures for ASA in Malta.

Dr Gillian Bowen is Lecturer at the Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History, Monash University. A member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, and Deputy Director of excavations at Ismant el-Kharab and Mut el-Kharab, Egypt, she excavates annually in Egypt. Her areas of teaching include: Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, Greece and Rome. She specialises in the archaeology of early Christianity in Egypt, ancient textiles, ancient numismatics. Gillian's publications include chapters in books on the churches and Christian burial practices at Ismant el-Kharab, ancient numismatics and textiles. She is co-editor of two monographs for the Dakhleh Oasis Project. Gillian joins ASA in 2004 as lecturer for our program to Egypt.

Harvey Broadbent is an independent director/producer, radio and television, who for many years was a producer and executive producer with the ABC. During these years he worked at various times on Four Corners, Quantum, Holiday, Education Now, Books and Writing and Background Briefing. Harvey has won several awards for his radio and television productions. He made Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore (1988 winner of the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award and highest selling Australian-made Video in 1990), The Boys Who Came Home (which he also published as a book) and The 75th Anniversary Gallipoli Pilgrimage (1990). He produced ABC-TV's coverage of the 1995 Victory in the Pacific Commemorations and the AFI Awards. Most recently he has made radio sound compositions for the ABC-FM radio. Hamam, an Elemental Journey was recorded at places visited by ASA in Turkey and Syria. Other 'sound-scapes' are Listening to Istanbul and World Street. Harvey graduated with honours in Oriental Studies at the University of Manchester in 1974, where his major study was Turkish language and culture. He speaks Turkish fluently, having taught English from 1967 to 1969 at a private College in the Black Sea region. He has travelled extensively in Turkey over many years, and has led ASA's Ages of Anatolia tour, and tours in Syria & Greece, since 1992.

Dr Mario Buhagiar is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Malta, where he is head of the Art Unit and responsible for the degree courses in History of Art. Dr Buhagiar's fields of specialisation are Western art history and Paleochristian antiquities. His numerous publications on art, archaeology and related subjects include four books: St Catherine of Alexandria: Her Churches, Paintings and Statues in the Maltese Islands; Late Roman and Byzantine Catacombs and Related Burial Places in the Maltese Islands; The Iconography of the Maltese Islands 1400-1900: Painting; and Mdina: the Cathedral City of Malta - A Reassessment of its History and a Critical Appreciation of its Architecture and Works of Art. Dr Buhagiar holds a BA hons, M.Phil and PhD from the University of London. He lectures for ASA in Malta.

Peter Davis is Chair of Non-Fiction Writing in the School of Communications and Creative Media, Deakin University. Before this, he spent twenty years teaching, writing, photographing and travelling. He continues to travel for assignments and publishes features and photographs in a wide range of newspapers and magazines. As a media consultant to the Australian government development agency, AusAID, Peter travels widely to document with text and images, a range of development projects in the Asia Pacific region. Since 1998 he has been a contributing author and photographer to Lonely Planet publications on India. In 1995 Peter published (with his partner) a large format book of text and photographs on the elephants of Sri Lanka. This was followed by a children's book for Cambridge University Press on the Asian Elephants. He has received grants and awards from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the National Book Council and the Australia Indonesia Institute. In October 2000, he was short-listed for the 2000 United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize for his feature writing and photographs on the slums of Mumbai. In 2002 he was commissioned by APEC to develop and deliver a series of media training seminars in Mexico. Peter runs regular workshops on travel writing and travel photography. When he's not chasing elephants, shooting film or researching features he works on his PhD in the area of text, photography and travel. Peter first joined ASA in 2002 as leader of ASA's photography tours to Turkey and Sri Lanka.

Susannah Fullerton majored in English Literature at the University of Auckland. She then completed a post-graduate degree in Victorian fiction and prose at the University of Edinburgh. For the past 6 years Susannah has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia. She has lectured extensively on Jane Austen in Australia and overseas and has published many articles about Jane Austen's works. She is the co-author of Jane Austen - Antipodean Views and is currently writing Jane Austen and Crime. Susannah is very well known on the Australian speakers' circuit as a literary lecturer. She gives talks on famous authors, their lives and works, and on the history of England, at the State Library of NSW, ADFAS, WEA, schools and for a great variety of clubs and societies. Susannah uses her training in drama to delight her audiences with dramatic readings from novels and poems. Her interest in literature is wide ranging. She is a member of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia, the Australian Brontë Association, the Byron Society and the Sherlock Holmes Society. She has worked on literary prize committees, organised literary conferences and is a most experienced lecturer and group leader. Susannah first joined ASA in 2003 as lecturer for our program entitled Exploring the Literary Landscapes of England.

Denis De Lucca is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Chairman of the Institute of Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. He has carried out research on various aspects of architectural history in the Central Mediterranean area. He has published several books and papers on the fortifications and baroque buildings of Malta, in particular on Mdina. Among the most important publications are: Mdina, A history of its urban space and architecture, and Islamic Architectural Manifestations in 8th century Mdina. Denis lectures for ASA in Malta.

Dr Anne Dunlop is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on late-medieval and Renaissance art, and she is currently working on a study of Italian secular fresco painting. She took her doctorate at the University of Warwick in England, and has been an awardee at the British School at Rome. Her most recent publications have appeared in Art History, Speculum, and the Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte. Anne has lived and studied in France, Spain, and Italy, and travels widely for her research. She has lectured in Italy and France for ASA since 1997.

Dr. Dagmar Eichberger is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She was previously Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, where she specialised in Northern Renaissance art and the history of collecting and museums. She is acknowledged internationally as an expert on German and Flemish art of the late middle ages and Renaissance. She is the author of Bildkonzeption und Weltdeutung im New Yorker Diptchon des Jan van Eyck (Worms 1987), and (with Hans Belting) of Jan van Eyck als Erzähler (Wiesbaden, 1983), as well as many articles and book chapters. She has recently completed a study of the art collection of Margaret of Austria in the early sixteenth century entitled Leben mit Kunst - Wirken durch Kunst. Sammelwesen und Hofkunst unter Margarete von Östereich, Regentin der Niederlande (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002). Dagmar is a guest lecturer for The University of Melbourne's credit course entitled Medieval and Renaissance Nuremberg: Art and Civic Culure.

Professor Tibor Frank is Professor of History, and the Director of the School of English and American Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. In 1998 he was awarded a D.Litt by the Hungarian Academy. He has lectured for ASA in Budapest (on Hungarian politics and society) for five years.

Dr Charles Green is an artist and historian specializing in the history of international and Australian art after 1960. He is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Arts, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, has regularly published articles and reviews in most Australian art magazines since the late 1980s, and is the Australian reviewer for Artforum magazine, New York. He was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship in 1993, and has received many other grants and awards. In 1995 he published Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (Sydney: Craftsman House, 1995). His latest book, The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Modernism to Conceptualism, is published by University of Minnesota Press (2001). He is currently working on a major history of Australian art after 1968 with the assistance of an Australian Research Council Large Grant. Charles is the lecturer for The University of Melbourne's credit course entitled Contemporary Culture: Art in New York.

Dr Michael Given was born in Brisbane and grew up in Perth, Scotland. He studied for his undergraduate degree in Classics at Oxford, and presented his PhD. in Cypriot archaeology at Cambridge. He has spent several years living in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly Cyprus, and has travelled extensively in the Mediterranean. He is now a Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. His archaeological fieldwork has included excavation and survey projects in Turkey (near Fethiye, and north of Ankara), Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, and Israel. His research interests include the history of the countryside, ancient religion, architecture, and the history of archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Michael has been tour lecturer for ASA's program to Turkey since 1998.

David Henderson is an artist, critic and art historian. He trained as a painter at the Royal Academy of Art, London, where he was awarded the S.J. Solomon Prize. He has undertaken numerous portrait commissions and his work is now represented in private collections in Australia, Europe and America. David has made many extended trips to Italy and now spends much of the year living and painting in Italy. In addition to teaching at the Queensland University of Technology and the Brisbane Institute of Art, David is a regular lecturer for Australians Studying Abroad. He first joined ASA in 1995 and has subsequently led tours to Italy and France, including The Intimate Landscapes of Tuscany & Umbria (1996-1998), Italian Houses and Gardens (1996), Art and Culture in Italy (1999), and The Cultural Landscapes of France (1997, 1999).

Bernard Hoffert is Head of the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of Applied Arts, Monash University. He is the former World President of the International Association of Art-UNESCO (1992-95) and has published several books on art and art theory including Art and Diversity, Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Art Notes. Bernard first joined ASA in 1981 and has since led over 30 European tours including programs to Italy (including Sicily), France, Spain, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom.

Dr Colin A. Hope is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History at Monash University, and Senior Co-Investigator on the Dakhleh Oasis Project. He has excavated in the Near East since 1971, first in Jordan, then Syria and, since 1974, annually in Egypt. He specializes in the archaeology of ancient Egypt, with particular reference to the western desert from late prehistory to Roman times, Mediterranean trade and ancient ceramics. He is the field director of the excavations at Mut el-Kharab, ancient capital of Dakhleh Oasis, which was occupied from the Old Kingdom until Mameluk Period, andIsmant el-Kharab, a late Ptolemaic to late Roman village in Dakhleh Oasis. He has published extensively in the areas of his expertise. Colin joins ASA in 2004 as lecturer for our program to Egypt.

Dr Peter Howard in addition to courses on Renaissance Florence and Renaissance Europe, teaches across a range of thematic areas related to the religious and social history of early modern Europe in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. His current research interest is the relationship of orality to culture in Renaissance Italy. He has published widely in the area of medieval sermon studies, including Beyond the Written Word: Preaching and Theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus, 1427-1459 (Florence: Olschki, 1995), and (edited with Cynthia Troup) Cultures of Devotion: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Religion (Monash Publications in History, 2000). He has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, and 'Villa I Tatti': the Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies. Peter is the academic co-ordinator of Monash University's credit course entitled The Renaissance in Florence .

Dr Carolyn James is Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian Studies at Monash University. In 2001/2 she was a fellow of the Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti). An expert on northern Italian Renaissance courts, she has published two books on the Bolognese literary figure, Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and is currently working on a book about Isabella d'Este and her husband, Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. She teaches Italian language and Renaissance history and literature, and coordinates Monash University's Italian language credit courses based in Prato.

Dr Julia Kelly studied Art History and Archaeology, and graduated with honours in Art History at La Trobe University in 1994. She then went on to complete a PhD in 2001. Her thesis examined the allusions to the theatre in the paintings, mosaics, sculpture and minor arts at Pompeii and Herculaneum, a research project which combined her interests in Greco-Roman art and archaeology, the ancient theatre and the continuity of the Hellenic tradition. She has travelled extensively in pursuit of these interests, and has carried out research at the Ashmolean Museum Library (now the Sackler Library) at Oxford and at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome. She now works at the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe where she assists scholars and post-graduate students in their research, as well as continuing to follow her own research topics. She has taught Art History at LaTrobe for several years in many different areas, including the art of ancient Greece, the use of Classical myth in art from Archaic Greece to 20th century Australia and America, the art, architecture and archaeology of the Roman Empire, Early Christian and Byzantine art, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. Dr Kelly's first book, Theatrical Allusions in the Art of Pompeii was published in 2002. Julia first joined ASA in 2002 as lecturer for ASA's program to Greece.

Professor Bill Kent is principal lecturer. He holds a personal chair in History at Monash, teaches Medieval and Renaissance History there, and is a widely-published authority on Quattocento Florence. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford and Harvard Universities. He is the Director of 'Monash University in Prato', the study centre housed in the Palazzo Vaj in the centre of Prato.

Dr Rachael Kohn joins this tour as a guest lecturer. She will be familiar to many as producer & presenter of The Ark and The Spirit of things on ABC Radio National. She has published widely on religion in academic journals, and her recent book The New Believers is published by Harper Collins in October 2003. She has won numerous awards for her programs for Radio National and ABC TV's Compass, including two World Gold Medals from the New York Festival. Before joining the ABC she taught Religious Studies and Semetic Studies in England & Canada. She received her Doctorate from McMaster University in Canada and completed the Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Lancaster in England. Rachel joins ASA in 2004 as guest lecturer in Andalucia and also ASA's program entitled Medieval France & Spain: the Pilgrim Routes to Santiago de Compostela.

Professor Miles Lewis is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He currently teaches and researches in the area of architectural history and conservation. He was a visiting scholar in Historical Archaeology and Architecture, University of Sydney 1990-91, a participant in the Tianjin Urban Conservation Study, China, 1991-94, and Auckland University Foundation Fellow, 1996. He is the joint recipient of the RAIA Robin Boyd Environment Award, 1973, Walter Burley Griffin Award, 1982, and merit awards 1979 and 1983, and a Royal Australian Planning Institute Special Award, 1995. He is the author of Victorian Primitive, Don John of Balaclava, The Essential Maldon, Two Hundred Years of Concrete in Australia, Victorian Churches, Melbourne - The City's History and Development, Suburban Backlash, and numerous articles and papers on architectural and building history, urban conservation, urban renewal and housing policy. Professor Lewis's research interests include Australian architectural and building history, prefabrication, vernacular architecture and traditional building internationally, and medium density housing policy. He is the lecturer for The University of Melbourne's credit course on architecture to Italy and France entitled Medieval Europe.

Dr David Marshall is Associate Professor in Baroque Art History in the School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology. His main area of specialisation is view painting and landscape painting in seventeenth century and eighteenth century Rome, and the relationship between painting and architecture. His publications include Viviano and Niccolň Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy, Rome, 1993, as well as articles in Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Storia dell'arte, Paragone, Artibus et Historiae, Apollo etc. One of his current projects is a reconstruction of the Villa Patrizi, the most important early eighteenth-century Roman villa, destroyed in 1849. He is founder and editor of Melbourne Art Journal. He spends several months each year researching in Rome, and has led Renaissance and Baroque Rome on three previous occasions.

Christine Milner has taught Classical, Early Christian, Medieval, and Renaissance art and history at the University of Melbourne and the Catholic Theological College. She has a B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature, specialising in Irish literature, and a B.Litt. (Hons) in Art History, both from the University of Melbourne. She has published in books and academic journals in Britain, Italy, and Australia, has co-authored the ASA Celtic handbook, and has led tours for ASA in Ireland, France, Italy, and Britain.

Dr Peter Milner has recently retired as Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, where he taught design, system modelling and history of technology in the Faculty of Engineering. He is a leading historian of technology and has represented Australia on the International Committee for History of Technology. He has published widely on the conservation of historic engineering sites and artefacts, has extensively researched the technology of Neolithic and Roman cultures, and has for the past twenty-five years conducted field work at sites in both Australia and Europe. He is co-author of the ASA Celtic handbook, and has led tours for ASA in Ireland, France, and Britain.

Shane Murray is Associate Professor of Architectural Design in the Architecture Program of the Faculty of the Constructed Environment, RMIT University. He is a practising architect, writes extensively on architecture and urbanism, and leads the Faculty's research tier in Urban Design. His built projects and architectural speculations are published internationally. Shane first joined ASA in 1998 and leads the RMIT / ASA tour entitled Twentieth Century Architecture and Urban Design in Europe.

Dr Uldis Ozolins has an umbilical relation to the Baltic states and the former Soviet Union. As a child he came to Australia with his refugee parents from Latvia, and since 1989 has returned almost each year to visit, work and study. He is currently Australasian President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies and an active researcher and commentator on contemporary Baltic issues. He gained his PhD from Monash University, has taught at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University and La Trobe University in several disciplines (politics, philosophy, education, interpreting/translating) and is currently Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He also runs his own consultancy on areas of language, interpreting and translating, and multicultural communication. He has taught and conducted research on Baltic issues at several universities in Latvia and has collaborated with scholars in Estonia and Lithuania. He has a passion for understanding the peculiar tenacity of the Baltic states and their cultures, wedged so often between German, Russian and other forces majeures.

John Patrick will be familiar to many for his work on radio and television presenting programs relating to gardens, their plants and their history. He has also written extensively on gardens throughout the world, including articles in Vogue Living and The Australian Garden Journal. He has written nine books, including as Trees for Town and City Gardens, and A Brief Biography of Robert Sweet. John has lectured widely in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand and has been a judge and consultant for garden shows. In 1985 he organized the opening of gardens for Victoria's Sesquicentenary which led to his involvement in founding Australia's Open Garden Scheme. His knowledge of European history allows him to place Garden History in the context of the social milieu in which gardens were created. John has travelled with tours to China, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and England, including ASA's garden tours to Italy and France in 2000 & 2002, and France in 2003.

Dr Richard Pennell is al-Tajir Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Melbourne. He is author of A Country with a Government and a Flag: The Rif War in Morocco, 1921-1926 (Wisbech. MENAS Press. 1986) 51; translated as La Guerra del Rif: Abd-el-Krim el Jattabi y su Estado rifeZo, (Melilla. Universidad Nacional de Distancia, 2001) - Piracy and Diplomacy in Seventeenth Century North Africa: the Journals of Thomas Baker, English Consul in Tripoli, 1677-1685 (London & Madison. Associated University Presses. 1989) and Morocco since 1830 (London and New York. C. Hurst and New York University Press, 2000). He is editor of Bandits at Sea: a Pirate Reader (New York, New York University Press, 2000). His new book Morocco: From Empire to Independence, the first general history of Morocco in English, will be released this year (Oxford & Boston: One World, 2003). Richard researched his PhD at Leeds University on the Rif War in Morocco in the 1920s. He has taught in Libya, Turkey, Singapore and Kenya. Richard has advised ASA on Islamic tours for some years, written ASA handbook chapters on Turkish and North African history, and joined ASA as tour lecturer in Tunisia in 1999.

Dr Iva Rosario is an independent scholar, an honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and is at present preparing a monograph on Bohemian Medieval art and politics. She obtained a BA, BEd and BMus (hons) at the University of Western Australia. In 1992 she completed a BLitt (hons) at the University of Melbourne followed by a PhD in Fine Arts. Her doctoral dissertation examined the art and political propaganda of the fourteenth century Czech court of Emperor Charles IV and its broader European context. Since 1997 Iva has led and lectured on ASA tours in Central Europe, including The Habsburg Cities: Budapest, Vienna & Prague (1997-2000), Architectural Splendours of Southern Bohemia (1998-2000), Imperial Cities of the North (Prague and Berlin) (1999). She has written a number of chapters for ASA's handbooks.

Dr Barbara Santich has lived and studied in France for varying periods of time over the past 25 years, and has an intimate knowledge of Paris as well as the different regions of the country. She has degrees in both science and arts (French major), and gained her doctorate from the Flinders University of South Australia with a thesis on Medieval Mediterranean cuisine. She is currently in charge of the Graduate Program in Gastronomy at the University of Adelaide. Barbara's research, while focused on food and eating, has always been situated within the broader domain of daily life and material culture. She has written numerous articles for Australian and overseas journals and magazines, and is the author of six books books including The Original Mediterranean Cuisine, and McLaren Vale: Sea & Vines. Her most recent book is In the Land of the Magic Pudding(2000), a literary survey of Australia's culinary culture and traditions. Barbara has led & co-led tours for ASA in France & Italy, including France: Culture, Society & Traditions (1996), Cultural Landscapes of France (1999) & Northern Italy & France: Palaces, Villas, Gardens & Vineyards (2002).

Dr Bronwyn Stocks has taught in the areas of art history, architecture, urban space, and design for Melbourne University and RMIT University and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Theory of Art and Design at Monash University. She completed her PhD in Medieval illuminated manuscripts at the School of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, in 1998. She publishes on both medieval art and contemporary art and her publications include a contribution to The Art of the Book, its place in medieval worship, a collection of articles published by Exeter University Press in 1998. She recently worked in Florence as research assistant to Professor Emeritus Margaret Manion on an Australian Research Council funded project examining Medieval Italian Choir books. Bronwyn first joined ASA in 1997. She has since led a number of tours including the credit courses Siena and its Environs for The University of Melbourne and Art and Design Practice in Britain for Monash University.

Professor Nigel Tapper holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Science at Monash University where he is Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science, Deputy Director of the Monash Environment Institute and Joint Co-ordinator of the Monash Atmospheric Science Program. Nigel has research interests in surface-atmosphere interactions, environmental change and sustainability and has four books, ten book chapters or encyclopaedia entries, and more than 70 research publications in an academic career spanning more than 20 years. Recent co-authored books include Bridging Wallace's Line: Environmental and Human History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian-Australian Region (2002), and The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand (1996). Website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/who/nigel.html

John Tidmarsh is currently a Casual Lecturer, School of Philosophical and Historical Enquiry, at the University of Sydney, and an Endocrinologist in Private Practice and Visiting Endocrinologist at Lidcombe - Bankstown Hospital. He has taught many courses for the University of Sydney, Continuing Education & the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He was involved in Sydney University's excavations at Torone, Greece as Chief Investigator and Nea Paphos, Cyprus as Associate Director. He is currently Co-Director of Sydney University's excavations at Pella, Jordan and involved with the University of Melbourne & Australian National University excavations at Jebel Khaled in Syria. John has published papers and articles on The Hellenistic Period in the Levant, Hellenistic pottery in Syria and Jordan, and Greek and Roman Ceramic Lamps from Torone in Greece. In 2004 his two forthcoming books on Pella in Jordan: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods and Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates: The Fine Wares, will be published. John has led tours for the Art Gallery of New South Wales to Greece, Turkey, Syria and Jordan. ASA is honoured to welcome John as our lecturer in Greece this year.

Dr Lori-Ann Touchette a classical archaeologist is Research Fellow in Ancient Art History at the British School at Rome and teaches at John Cabot University in that city. She taught at Johns Hopkins University and University College, Dublin, before transferring to Rome four years ago. A specialist in Roman art and culture, she has published a monograph on Roman copies of Greek sculpture and numerous articles on Greek and Roman art. She is also Classical Art advisory editor of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Western Art. She has developed a secondary interest in the Grand Tour and the reception of antiquity in the 18th century. Lori-Ann has degrees from Brown and Princeton Universities. She gained her doctorate at Oxford. Lori-Ann lectures on ASA programs in Italy (and Sicily).

Dr Judith Trimble is Senior Lecturer in Art and Architectural History at the School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University. She previously taught art history at Monash University and also currently teaches in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her publications on Ancient Civilisations, the Early Renaissance, High Renaissance and Mannerism, and Renaissance Venice and the Baroque were written for university students studying in Australia and in various countries overseas. Her monograph on the contemporary Australian sculptor Inge King was published in 1996, and she has recently given papers at national and international conferences on Renaissance architecture, modern sculpture, and another special area of interest, cultural mythology and landscape. Judith studied for her undergraduate degree and PhD at Monash University. She has led study tours for ASA since 1991, specialising in Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture.

Dr Nicholas Vlahogiannis has taught Ancient History and Classical Studies at the University of Melbourne and the University of Surrey (UK) as well as being a Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London (1992-1994). In 1984/5 he was co-director of an archaeological tour of Greece and Southern Italy with the University of Adelaide. In 1995 Nick led a tour for Australians Studying Abroad entitled The Heritage of Hellenism: Greece & Western Turkey, and co-led the tour The Mediterranean: Malta & Sicily (1995 & 1996). He is the coordinator of the University of Melbourne credit course The Graeco-Roman City in Antiquity.

Dr Greg Whitwell is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne. In 1992 he was appointed Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) in this school and in 1994, its inaugural Associate Dean (International). He has written three books on economic history and numerous scholarly articles. In 1996 he was appointed editor of The Australian Economic History Review. He was a fellow at the Universities of Potsdam (Germany) and Padua (Italy) in 1997, and taught at Université de Lyon III (France) in 1997 and 1999. Greg graduated in Economic History from Monash University and obtained his PhD from The University of Melbourne. In 1989 he was awarded the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Medal, an award for 'excellence in scholarship in the social sciences'. Greg's involvement with ASA began in 1982 as a tour participant. During seven months' sabbatical in Paris in 1986 he lectured to numerous ASA groups on the urban development of the city. Since then he has led many ASA tours, principally to France.

Christopher Wood is the founder and director of Australians Studying Abroad. He is an associate of the Fine Arts Dept, University of Melbourne, and the History Department, Monash University. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash and LaTrobe Universities, and for the Rhode Island School of Design. He has published two books, on Australian architectural history and on travel, has contributed to two collections of essays on travel theory, and co-scripted and narrated two documentary films on Tuscan history. His photographs are published in many Lonely Planet guide books. Since he founded ASA in 1976 he has led over 90 tours to Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the USA and Asia for both Australians and Americans.

Dr John Wreglesworth is an independent scholar, holds an honorary association with the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Exeter, and is currently preparing his PhD for publication while writing articles on Spanish chronicles. He has taught at Manchester University and was joint-organiser of an international conference there for historians of medieval Iberia. John graduated from the University of Manchester and obtained his PhD at the University of Leeds. He was awarded a Fellowship by the Canada Blanch Foundation to facilitate research in Spain. In addition to his expertise on Spanish subjects, he has an extensive knowledge of European culture, history and politics. John joined ASA in 1998 as guest-lecturer on the program Art and Culture in Spain. He has since led co-led ASA programs in Russia (1998), and the tours entitled The Habsburg Cities and Medieval France and Spain: The Pilgrim Routes to Santiago de Compostela, and Imperial Cities of the North (St. Petersburg).

Aleksandrs Vigdorciks Eng.Mech., M.Sc. was born and has spent his life in Latvia, living through German and Soviet-Russian occupations. He was officially educated at school and university as a soviet communist, but always has resisted this ideology and Russian influence on his homeland, searching for all possible sources of independent information. In the late 1980's he was very active in the Latvian Peoples Front. He gained his Eng.Mech. and M.Sc. at Riga Technical University and Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad, (now St Petersburg). For many years he taught in Riga Technical University on a wide spectrum of mechanical disciplines and aspects of Industrial Art Design. He has long cultivated a personal interest in history and art, and has travelled extensively around the Baltic States, Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine by foot, bicycle, car and boat (rafting, paddling, sailing). His native language is Latvian and he is fluent in Russian, English and German. This will be his first ASA tour.

Dr Judit Zerkowitz is a specialist in literary history and teaches at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She has published widely in her field and lectures for ASA on the development of Hungarian literature.

Charles Zika is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne and is internationally known as an expert on the cultural and religious history of Germany between the 15th and 17th centuries. He is the editor of No Gods Except Me: Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600 (Melbourne, 1991) and author of Johannes Reuchlin und die okkulte Tradition der Renaissance (Sigmaringen, 1998), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He has recently completed a book entitled Exorcising our Demons: Witchcraft, Magic and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2002). Charles is the group leader for The University of Melbourne's credit course entitled Medieval and Renaissance Nuremberg: Art and Civic Culture.