Dr. Candace Livingston

Bio

Dr. Candace Livingston holds a Ph.D. in Classical Art History from the University of Southern California, an M.A. in Medieval Art History from Tulane University, and a B.A. in Classical Languages from Baylor. A field archaeologist, she has excavated at sites ranging from the prehistoric to Byzantine periods in Italy, Romania, and Turkey, including as a member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute’s team at Ephesus. In 2008-2009, she lived and conducted research in Istanbul, supported by a Fulbright grant and a fellowship at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. Her current fieldwork includes the Etruscan site of San Giuliano in Italy, an excavation AU shares with Baylor, and to which she takes Anderson students to train in archaeology. In 2025, she was selected as Assistant Team Lead for Archaeology for the Roy Chapman Andrews Legacy Expedition, a team of 30 explorers from eight nations that conducted scientific research in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

Candace has been the recipient of both the Anderson University Michael Boles Excellence in Teach Award (2017) and Second Mile Award for service (2015). In 2018, she was named a Fellow in the Explorers Club, a multidisciplinary society dedicated to the advancement scientific exploration and conservation, whose roll of former and current Fellows includes such well-known explorers as Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, Jane Goodall, James Cameron, and all the men who have walked on the Moon. 

Candace’s primary research focuses on the sensory experience of ancient Greek and Roman animal sacrifices, a topic on which she has published in the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology and in several edited volumes, including one she co-authored and co-edited, Why Ancient Objects Matter: Greek and Roman Art and Materiality from Antiquity to the Present (De Gruyter 2025). She frequently lectures on cultural and historical topics on cruise ships and has served as a Resident Historian on Viking Cruise Lines every summer since 2019, except when COVID cancelled everything. She has also lectured by invitation for the Smithsonian Journeys program and the Archaeological Institute of America. She appeared as an on-camera expert in the PBS documentary series Ancient Roads: From Christ to Constantine in 2011, which frequently airs in re-runs during the Christmas season.