Director
President, Los Angeles County AIA
Professor , Art History Program, Art Department, California State University Northridge
owen.doonan@csun.edu
Owen P. Doonan is an archaeologist and ancient art historian specializing in the cultures of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. He focused on early Sicilian Architecture and society in his PhD at Brown University’s Center for Old World Archaeology and Art in 1993 . He became interested in Turkey and the Black Sea while teaching Archaeology and Art History at Bilkent University in Turkey . Since 1996 he has led the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project, the land survey and excavation component of the Black Sea Trade Project. His book Sinop Landscapes: Exploring Connection in the Hinterland of a Black Sea Port has been published by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Press.