About

Archae­ol­o­gist, pro­fes­sor, doc­u­men­tary host, Dar­ius Arya is just as com­fort­able in front of the prover­bial black board as he is in front of the cam­era and in the trenches.  He has appeared as guest lec­turer, expert and host in numer­ous doc­u­men­taries  for Dis­cov­ery, His­tory and National Geo­graphic chan­nels, and has been cited in arti­cles in New York Times, The Guardian and BBC. Most recently, he is appear­ing on National Geographic’s When Rome Ruled and His­tory Channel’s Caligula: 1400 Days of Ter­ror.
Since 2003, Dar­ius is the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Amer­i­can Insti­tute for Roman Cul­ture. A grad­u­ate from the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia and Phillips Exeter Acad­emy, Dar­ius received his MA and PhD from Uni­ver­sity of Texas, Austin. He is a Ful­bright Scholar and Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Rome fel­low FAAR’00. Dar­ius lives in Rome.  A more detailed bio can be found on LinkedIn. For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing doc­u­men­taries, please con­tact Armada Part­ners at 424.652.5055, info@armada–partners.comLec­tures 

Upcom­ing:  Glas­gow, Scot­land. May 2, 2013.

Upcom­ing: Unlisted 2013, Rome, Italy. April 18, 2013 “Con­ver­sa­tion for Conservation”.

Amer­i­can Women’s Asso­ci­a­tion of Rome AWAR, Rome, Italy. Feb­ru­ary 25, 2013 “Pre­serv­ing cul­tural her­itage in a dig­i­tal world, effec­tive out­reach and action.“

Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity, Sacra­mento, Novem­ber 14, 2012 “Ancient Greek archi­tec­tural and arti­san tra­di­tion in a Roman reality” 

Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity, Fresno, Novem­ber 14, 2012 “Rome then and now; the Eter­nal City’s cul­tural her­itage legacy in the 21st century”

Uni­ver­sity of Mass­a­chu­setts, Amherst, May 2012 “Old Stones and New Media: Lever­ag­ing the Roles of Video and Social Media to Engage and Involve Stu­dents, Pro­fes­sion­als, and the Pub­lic at Large in Cul­tural Her­itage and Archae­ol­ogy”

Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, Depart­ment of Clas­sics, Palo Alto. Jan­u­ary 9 2012  

Unlisted Con­fer­ences, lec­tures and con­fer­ence orga­nizer 2011, 2012. Rome, Italy.