Nancy C. Wilkie | |
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| Born | Nancy Clausen Wilkie December 27, 1942 |
| Died | January 18, 2021 (aged 78) |
| Board member of | Archaeological Institute of America (president 1998–2002) |
| Spouse | Craig Anderson |
| Awards | Outstanding Public Service Award (Archaeological Institute of America) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | A Tholos Tomb at Nichoria: Its Construction and Use (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Andrew McDonald |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Mycenaean Greece |
| Institutions | Carleton College, American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
Nancy Clausen Wilkie (27 December 1942 – 18 January 2021) was an American archaeologist. She served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America between 1998 and 2002, and worked on archaeological projects in Greece, Egypt, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Wilkie began her archaeological career as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, joining the University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition in 1968. During her time with the UMME, she became heavily involved in the excavation of the important Mycenaean site of Nichoria, working there as a trench supervisor before completing her PhD thesis on the site's tholos tomb. She played a leading role in the publication of the results of the Nichoria excavations, which were eventually released in 1992. Wilkie also led the excavation of the Egyptian site of Kom Dahab in the Nile Delta. Between 1985 and 1996, she directed the Grevena archaeological project, a large-scale field survey project in northern Greece.
Wilkie was active in the field of cultural heritage management, serving on the AIA's Conservation and Site Protection Committee and helping to establish the US committee of Blue Shield International, an organisation dedicated to protecting cultural remains. She was appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, a body which advises the President of the United States on matters to do with cultural heritage, from 2003 until 2017. She retired from Carleton College in Minnesota, at which she taught for her entire career, in 2013, and died in 2021.