Providence , RI – Dr. Susan Heuck Allen, adjunct associate professor of history at Providence College , offered scholarly commentary in a History Channel documentary on the archaeology and history of the Trojan War.   The True Story of Troy premiered on May 16, 2004 .  Allen appeared in Act 3 in which archaeologists and philologists on three continents attempt to relate the true story of Troy from both an archaeological and literary sense.

An expert on Trojan ceramics from the levels connected with Homer’s heroes, Allen wrote her dissertation on the subject after excavating vessels at a Late Bronze Age site in Israel in 1985. Before that, she studied at the University of Cincinnati with the last excavator from the 1930s American dig at Troy , John Caskey.

Allen, who joined the Providence College faculty in fall 2003, teaches ancient art history and archaeology at College. The author of Finding the Walls of Troy and Excavating Our Past, Allen is the second faculty member from the Department of Art and Art History to have appeared in a History Channel documentary in less than two months. Dr. Joan R. Branham, associate professor of art history and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, was a scholarly consultant in the documentary The Trial of Jesus, which aired on April 8, 2004 .

The True Story of Troy was produced for the History Channel by Branham’s husband, Gary Glassman, of Providence Pictures.

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