Professor John Fritz

John M Fritz trained as an archaeologist at the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and State University of New York, Binghamton. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is also a Research Associate at the National Museum of History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Since 1981 John has co-directed an international team of researchers at Hampi, the ruined medieval Hindu imperial capital in Karnataka.

Among his publications is the illustrated guidebook "Hampi" (IBH, Bombay, 2003) and "New Light on Hampi" (Marg, Bombay, 2004).

He is an experienced guest lecturer and has accompanied several groups to both northern and southern India.