P. Gregory Warden

P. Gregory Warden has served as the Mark A. Roglán Director of the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at the Meadows Museum since June 2022. From 2012 to 2022 he was President of Franklin University Switzerland, where he is currently President Emeritus. He taught at the University of Texas at Arlington, Bowdoin College, the University of Pennsylvania, and then for 30 years at SMU, where he is now a Professor of Art History Emeritus. At SMU, Warden was appointed University Distinguished Professor, Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is Executive Editor of the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies, President of the Etruscan Foundation, Consulting Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, an elected Fellow of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi e Italici and an International Fellow of the Explorers Club.

Warden's research interests are Mediterranean archaeology, urbanism, materiality and digital cultural heritage. He has authored or co-authored seven books, over 100 articles and reviews, and specialized studies in archaeometallurgy, archaeological theory, architecture, economic history and ritual studies. Warden has lectured internationally, including keynote lectures at the British Museum, the Getty Museum, the Florence Archaeological Museum and numerous universities. He has organized museum exhibitions in both the U.S. and Europe and served as interim director of the Meadows Museum from 2001 to 2003 where he organized the exhibit, Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative. Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. In 2009 he organized the Meadows Museum exhibit, From the Temple and the Tomb. Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany, the largest exhibit on the Etruscans in North America.

A native of Italy, Warden is the founder, PI, and co-director of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla. The Project has been featured in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the European media, the Discovery Channel, and in the documentary, Etruscan Odyssey, Expanding Archaeology. Warden is also co-director of the Potentino Exploration Project, which aims to connect archaeology and heritage with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. His work has been supported by the Kress Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.