John Kinloch Anderson

John Kinloch Anderson (January 3, 1924 – October 13, 2015) was Professor of Classics and Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. Biography John Kinloch Anderson was born in Multan, Punjab, British India on January 3, 1924. He obtained his secondary education at Trinity College Glenalmond in Scotland from 1937 to 1942. He served in the Royal Highland Regiment during World War II, serving in campaigns in Europe and Asia. After the war, he studied Classics at Christ Church, Oxford, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1949. From 1949–50, he attended the British School at Athens. He was a MacMillan Fellow at Yale University in the US from 1950 to 1952. Anderson worked at various excavation sites in Greece and Turkey, such as Corinth, Chios, and Smyrna (Izmir). Beginning in 1953, he taught at University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. While in New Zealand, he met his wife Esperance, with whom he had three children. In 1958, they moved to Berkeley, California where he taught at UC Berkeley in the US until his retirement in 1993. He was curator of the Lowie Museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology). He died in 2015. Bibliography Anderson was an experienced rider, which inspired him to write the seminal work Ancient Greek Horsemanship (1961). It covered horsemanship in the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age until the Muslim conquests of the early Middle Ages. As part of his research, Anderson personally attempted some of the riding procedures described in the book. At the time of its publication, the book was praised in a number of academic reviews, including The Classical Review and Classical Philology.