Contributor Biography - English JEFFREY B. SPIERAugust 2004-present: University Associate and Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics, University of ArizonaGuest Curator, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, for the exhibition "Picturing the Bible: the Earliest Christian Art", shown November 18, 2007-March 30, 2008December 1999-to September 2002: Faculty Research Associate, Literae Humaniores, Oxford UniversityMarch 1998-June 1999: Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College LondonFebruary-April 1997: Guest Curator, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, for the exhibition "San Marco and Venice"1988-1997: Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Lecturer in Greek Numismatics, 1991-92, 1993-94; Greek Vase Painting, 1996.Academic Training:October 1983-April 1988: Merton College, Oxford. D.Phil., Classical Archaeology (Faculty of Literae Humaniores), for the dissertation "Minor Arts and Regional Styles in East Greece", 700-500 B.C.

, under the direction of Professor Sir John Boardman.September 1976-September 1977: Research Assistant to Professor George M.A. Hanfmann at the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (Turkey), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.September 1973-June 1977: Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. B.A. degree in Classical Archaeology.

Honorary positions:Elected Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, New York, October, 2005Publications (selection):Late Antique and Early Christian Gems (Wiesbaden, 2007)Picturing the Bible: the Earliest Christian Art (New Haven and London, 2007, in association with the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth)"St. George," in Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti and John Boardman, Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (London, 2008), p. 45, no. 24 (a thirteenth century cameo in the Royal Collection, Windsor)"Fifth Century Gems and Rings: From Constantinople to Italy and the West," in Gemma Sena Chiesa and Elisabetta Gagetti, eds., Aquileia e la glittica di eta ellenistica e romana (Trieste, 2009), pp. 237-245"Some Unconventional Early Byzantine Rings," in Chris Entwistle and Noel Adams, eds., "Intelligible Beauty": Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery (London, 2010), pp. 13-19.