David H. Schneller

David H. Schneller is an art historian and archaeologist whose research and teaching focuses on the ancient eastern Mediterranean and western Asia. He is currently working on his first book, Crafting Across Time and Space: Artistic Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean, a study of artworks that resist categorization in the conventionally accepted fields of art history. This study makes the case for creative, cross-cultural experiments and collaborations among a diverse group of artists and their patrons during the early first millennium BC by exploring materially-informed object histories and crafting knowledge. This research has been supported by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Prior to joining the Department of Art History at UCLA, Professor Schneller taught in the Core Curriculum and Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and in the Art History Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.