Aaron J. Paul received his master’s degree from Harvard University and curatorial training in the Harvard University Art Museums, where he was curator of the innovative exhibition and author of the catalog for Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing upon Greek Vases (1997). He was appointed the first Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art in 1999 and subsequently co-organized the exhibition and co-edited the catalog for Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily (2002) – a major exhibition that included rare and newly excavated masterworks never loaned by the Italian Republic. As a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome he collaborated with colleagues in the research and publication of Greek vases in the Vatican Museums, which resulted in La collezione Astarita nel Museo Gregoriano Etrusco (2016) as part of the long-standing series Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano. He has participated in archeological study seasons and excavations in Cyprus at Kalavasos, Palaipaphos, Alambra and Episkopi. 

As an independent scholar he draws upon a broad experience in the field of museum work and archaeology. He currently advises public institutions and private collectors specializing in the material culture of ancient Greece and Italy.