Department notes the passing of another former Biggs Resident

Andrew Stewart served as Biggs Resident in 2011

The Department of Classics has learned of the passing of another of our Biggs Family Residents, archaeologist and art historian Andrew Stewart

 

Professor Stewart received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge and taught at the University of Otago, New Zealand, before moving to the University of California at Berkeley in 1979. For twenty years he directed Berkeley’s excavations at Tel Dor in Israel, and he is also associated with the sculpture of the Athenian Agora, having published numerous articles on recent excavations there by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He retired from Berkeley in 2019.

 

Just before his death, Professor Stewart accepted the ASCSA Gold Medal Award for distinguished Archaeological Achievement. The ASCSA website states that with his fieldwork, eight books, and scores of articles, Stewart “has transformed our knowledge and understanding of ancient Greek sculpture, via focused empirical scholarship on dates, individual works, and artists, as well as through broad-ranging discussions of sexuality, reception, semiotics, psychology, economics, and culture theory.”

 

Many in our own community can remember Professor Stewart’s stimulating visit to campus as Resident, and his later participation in the 2018 Biggs Residency Reunion.