Robert Pitt is a Greek historian specialising in epigraphy, topographic studies and early travelers. His teaching at CYA is centred around engaging with primary material across a broad range (literary sources, archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics) and takes a holistic approach to the ancient world, with a critical appraisal of the modern formations of archaeology and classics that continue to shape our perceptions of Antiquity.

A CYA faculty member since 2014, he was previously the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens, where he ran the teaching program and helped to compile the digest of archaeological reports ‘Archaeology in Greece Online’. He has published a corpus of the inscribed Athenian funerary monuments of the British Museum, part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Attic inscriptions in UK collections’ (downloadable here), and is currently working on the unpublished papers of the English traveler Dr. Anthony Askew, who recorded hundreds of inscriptions in Athens and Paros in the mid-18th century. He is a member of the Kerameikos excavation team of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens and is preparing a volume on the Hellenistic and Roman gravestones of the cemetery (the so-called kioniskos and trapeza monuments).