Michael Anderson is a Professor of Classical Archaeology at San Francisco State University and Director of the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii. The Via Consolare Project works to document and explain the chronology and stratigraphic record of the properties along the length of the via Consolare: a major roadway on the western side of ancient Pompeii.  Professor Anderson has conducted primary archaeological research and excavation in Pompeii for more than 20 years.