Ali Akman
(Ph.D. expected, May 2029)
Ali Akman's interests include Anatolian archaeology, Hittitology, Assyriology, computational archaeology, digital humanities, and network analysis.
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Sarah Bell
(Ph.D. expected, May 2024)
Sarah Bell's interests include cross-cultural connections through the identification of “vocabularies” of spatial arrangement, and the tracing of etymologies of spatial language, particularly in architecture associated with religious or cult worship, especially Minoan palaces.
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Erynn Bentley
(Ph.D. expected, May 2025)
Erynn Bentley's interests include the art and archaeology of late antiquity and the early medieval period in the Mediterranean region and Europe, as well as the materiality and performativity of objects and places; cultural exchange and mobility; and public archaeology and museum curation.
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Emily Booker
(Ph.D. expected, February 2024)
Emily Booker's academic interests lie in international ties, trade, and communication in the eastern Mediterranean, particularly in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, through a combination of archaeological, art historical, and textual analysis of materials. Her dissertation work focuses on anthropomorphic clay figurines from Cyprus dating to the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age, considering issues of local appropriations of foreign influence and conceptions of the human body.
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Joseph Carrino
(Ph.D. expected, May 2028)
Joseph Carrino's current research interests include socio-economic development and exchange, cross-cultural interactions, and connectivity studies, especially at the local level across the Mediterranean. Moreover, he is interested in how microhistories can tell big stories of change attendant on empire.
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Elizabeth Davis
(Ph.D. expected, May 2025)
Liza Davis's primary research interests include the mechanics and effects of the spread of Christianity in the eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity; network analysis, spatial statistics, and GIS; geoarchaeology, soil science, and environmental history; and the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage.
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Grace Hermes
(Ph.D. expected, May 2029)
Grace Hermes's primary research interests include the lived experiences of women in the ancient Mediterranean, the body as a locus of gendered experience, and how conceptions of gender are created and reinforced by material culture. She is also interested in healing cults and cross-cultural anatomical votive practices.
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Julia Hurley
(Ph.D. expected, October 2023)
Julia Hurley's primary research interests are in foodways in the ancient world; Roman social and economic history; the archaeology of the Roman Empire, particularly the western provinces and the cultural interactions therein; environmental history; and digital approaches to studying the ancient world.
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Rachel Kalisher
(Ph.D. expected, May 2024)
Rachel Kalisher's current research interests involve investigating female reproductive stages through histology to understand how these milestones pertain to women's status and mortuary treatment in the ancient world.
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Jennifer McLish
(Ph.D. expected, May 2029)
Jen McLish's research interests are in knowledge transmission and craft production, primarily how the maintenance or revival of craft traditions relates to social memory and identity, as well as how systems of craft production respond to situations of political and social marginalization, environmental disaster, or economic turmoil.
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Leah Neiman
(Ph.D. expected, May 2026)
Leah Neiman's interests include systems of sex and gender expression, medical archaeology, museum education, and public-facing scholarship.
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Gerasimoula Nikolovieni
(Ph.D. expected, May 2025)
Mina Nikolovieni's interests include Greek prehistory; archaeology of space; anthropology of material culture and craftsmanship; textiles; and objects of domestic life.
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Max Peers
(Ph.D. expected, May 2024)
Max Peers’s research focuses architectural developments in Italy from the Hellenistic period to the Roman Empire, both at the domestic level, looking at perception and movement in houses, and at the scale of cities, such as the environmental impact of infrastructure projects.
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Ana González San Martín
(Ph.D. expected, May 2025)
Ana G. San Martín's interests concentrate on Mediterranean prehistory, with special attention to the Bronze Age; mobility and labour in rural communities, gender archaelogy, landscape and temporality. Archaeological theory and contemporary archaeology complement a particularly keen interest in the ethics and politics of arhaeological practice altogether.
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Mason Shrader
(Ph.D. expected, May 2029)
Mason Shrader studies the bioarchaeology of disability and impairment in the ancient Mediterranean, focusing specifically on Late Antiquity and early Christianity.
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Anna Soifer
(Ph.D. expected, May 2024)
Anna Soifer's current research interests include ancient craft and industry, knowledge transfer, communities of practice, and ceramic analysis, particularly in the context of understanding community development and interaction in Pre-Roman Italy.
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Martin Uildriks
(Ph.D. expected, February 2024)
Martin Uildriks's interests include digital, virtual, and cyber-archaeology; (post-)colonialism; and writing systems; as well as archaeological methods and theory, drawing from his extensive fieldwork experiences as surveyor and digital archaeologist.
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Yilmaz Yeniler
(Ph.D. expected, May 2028)
Yilmaz Yeniler's research interests include gender studies, the history of sexuality, archaeological methods and theories, socio-politics of the past, language in archaeology, discourse analysis, and the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East.