Participants

2014-2015

Linda Gosner and Katherine Harrington (Co-coordinators, 2013-2015, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World)
Linda is interested in household and settlement archaeology in the Roman provinces. She is currently working on a dissertation examining the impact of mining and metallurgical production on local settlements and labor organization in Roman Iberia. 5th year PhD candidate.

Katherine’s primary interests include household archaeology and craft production in Archaic through Hellenistic Greece. Her dissertation investigates the intersections of these two topics in the sphere of household industry and domestic production. 6th year PhD candidate.

Emily Button (2013-2015), Department of Anthropology: Emily’s research interests are in historical archaeology, cultural contact and colonialism, and labor and migration in the early modern world. Her dissertation research compares household practices, labor patterns, and kinship networks among Native Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants in and around a New York whaling port. 6th year PhD candidate.

Sarah Craft, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World: Sarah’s dissertation project, entitled "Early Christian Pilgrimage Pragmatics: Travel Infrastructure, Movement, and Connectivity in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Anatolia," explores notions of movement and connectivity throughout fourth through seventh century Anatolia. Within the framework of early Christian pilgrimage in the region of Cilicia in southern Turkey, she takes a landscape archaeology approach to movement and connectivity through the lenses of travel infrastructure, contemporary texts, and ecclesiastical architecture. 7th year PhD candidate.

Müge Durusu (2013-2015), Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World: Müge’s interests generally focus on the later Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE) of the Ancient Near East, and specifically on the Hittite Empire. In her current research, she is working through the discourses and historical narratives of the Hittite Empire, with plans to eventually synthesize ideas of migration, indigenous and foreign contact, and borderlands in Bronze Age Anatolia. 5th year PhD candidate.

Joseph Kurz, Department of History (Ancient History): Joey is using recent archaeological work and historical text to examine colonial aims and local responses in Carthage’s imperial venture in Southern Iberia under the Barcid Generals (237-205 BCE), with an emphasis on how Carthage's presence fit into the bigger picture of local Punic and Iberia communal dynamics through the fourth to second centuries. Joey’s research interests include archaeological, numismatic, and textual approaches to the Iberian, Roman, and Punic worlds as well as ancient imperialism in general. 6th year PhD candidate.

Sarah Newman, Department of Anthropology: 6th year PhD candidate.

Sarah Rovang (2013-2015), Department of the History of Art and Architecture: Sarah specializes broadly in twentieth-century American architecture. Her dissertation will examine the confluence of farm electrification, architectural modernism, and the changing agrarian landscape of America under the New Deal. 5th year PhD candidate.

Alexander Smith (2013-2015), Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World: Alex is studying the Late Iron Age indigenous cultures of the Balearic Islands and their interactions with the Carthaginian and Roman Empires. His main research interests include the expression of interaction, hybridity and cultural continuity in domestic, ritual and funerary contexts in the Balearic Islands during the second half of the first millennium BCE. 6th year candidate.

Kerry Sonia (2013-2015), Department of Religious Studies: Kerry's research interests include ancient historiography, comparative Semitic philology, ritual violence, and Israelite family religion. She is particularly interested in the treatment of bodies as means of communicating social and political affiliations. Her research also engages the intersection of family religion and the construction of social memory. 5th year PhD candidate.

Additional Participants in 2013-2014:

Alyce de Carteret, Department of Anthropology: Alyce is studying the Maya body, in both conception and practice, in order to gain a better understanding of how the Maya defined both themselves and the outside world. She is pursuing archaeological research that will help to illuminate the particulars of lived experience, especially household archaeology. 3rd year PhD candidate.

Colleen Donahoe, Ancient History Program (Departments of Classics and History): Colleen is a Roman historian who studies social life and cultural exchange in imperial frontier settings. Areas of interest include slavery, gender roles, and civilian-military interaction. 4th year PhD candidate.

Timothy Sandiford, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World: Tim’s dissertation fieldwork is on two mid-to-late Ptolemaic Houses at Abydos (Upper Egypt). As a result of this work Tim is very interested in the articulation and use of imported objects in a domestic setting and in the household and house as a nexus for examining wider networks of trade, economy, and societal control. 5th year PhD student.