Hallie Franks’s teaching and research interests are in the art and archaeology of Greece, Rome and the ancient Near East, and she is particularly interested in the points of cultural overlap and exchange between the Mediterranean and the East. Her research has taken her to Greece, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and Bulgaria, where she is currently involved in the American Research Center in Sofia's excavations at the ancient Macedonian city of Heraclea Sintica. At Gallatin, her teaching interests focus on the intersection of ancient texts and material culture, and include classes on ancient portraiture, visual narrative, concepts of the outsider and cultural memory. Her first book, titled Hunters, Heroes, Kings, investigates the ways that the ancient kingdom of Macedonia drew from various cultural traditions in the visual expression of its self-identity.
