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Dan Schowalter is a professor of classics and religion at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He is co-Director of the Omrit Archaeological Excavations in Israel, and serves on the editorial board for the Oxford Biblical Studies Online and the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible. He is a member of the steering committee for the “Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World” section for the Society of Biblical Literature, and an organizer for the colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion. His research interests include Archaeology, Roman Religions and honors offered to the Roman emperors. Along with Steve Friesen, he is co-editor of Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches, from Harvard University Press, and with Friesen and James Walters is coeditor of Corinth in Context: Comparative Perspectives on Religion & Society, forthcoming from Brill. In 2009, Professor Schowalter was a speaker for the Roman Discussion Forum at Oxford University. He leads study tours throughout the Mediterranean world.

Jesus and His First Followers (DVD Lectures)
Digging Deeper: The Latest Archaeological Research from the Biblical World (DVD Lectures)