Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., 1976. (Wrote: The Roman World [Oxford, Elsevier/Phaidon, 1977]).
Visiting Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 1979-1980, where I was co-director of an interdepartmental faculty seminar on Greek iconography. This research was later supported with a Wolfson Foundation Grant, and by the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas. (This work resulted in (M. Vickers, ed.): E.D. Francis, Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece: Art and Literature after the Persian Wars [London, Routledge, 1990]).
Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Spring Semester 2003. Archaeological Institute of America Kress Lecturer for 2002-2003 (speaking to the Ann Arbor, Central Michigan, Detroit, Toledo, Boulder, Denver, Tucson, Southern Nevada, Santa Fe, Baltimore, Staten Island, Northern New Jersey and St Louis AIA Chapters).
Guest Curator, exhibition ‘Wine, Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani’, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, December 2007-February 2008.
Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2013
Visiting Scholar, Getty Villa, Malibu, March 2013