Thomas G. Palaima

Thomas G. Palaima (born October 6, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio), is a Mycenologist, the Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor and the founding director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. He received a MacArthur fellowship 1985-90 for work on Aegean scripts.

His recent interests include work on war and violence studies (http://www.utexas.edu/inside_ut/take5/palaima/ and http://residentassociates.org/otomay/war.asp) and work with providing poverty-level adults the opportunity to return to higher education through an innovative program focusing on teaching the humanities, broadly defined (http://www.humanitiesinstitute.utexas.edu/programs/minds/index.html).

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The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Written Sources for Cypriote History (Annual Lecture 2004: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation 2005).
[with E. Pope and F. Kent Reilly] Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing, Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, March 9–August 1, 2000 (Austin 2000)
edited Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administrations, Proceedings of the NEH-Dickson Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory of the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin January 11-13, 1989, Aegaeum 5 (Liège 1990)
edited [with C.W. Shelmerdine and P. Hr. Ilievski] Studia Mycenaea (1988), Ziva Antika Monographies No. 7 (Skopje 1989)
edited [with Y. Duhoux and J. Bennet] Problems in Decipherment, Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 49 (Louvain-la-Neuve 1989)
The Scribes of Pylos, Incunabula Graeca 87 (Rome 1988)
edited [with J.-P. Olivier] Texts, Tablets and Scribes: Studies in Mycenaean Epigraphy and Economy in Honor of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., Minos Supplement 10 (Salamanca 1988)
edited [with C.W. Shelmerdine] Pylos Comes Alive: Industry and Administration in a Mycenaean Palace, Papers of a Symposium of the Archaeological Institute of America and Fordham University (New York, 1984)