Current Students

First Year

Jonathan Leite - Roman Archaeology; Archaeology of Frontiers; Conflict Archaeology; Postcolonial Studies; Daily Life; Sensory and Spatial Approaches; Gender Archaeology; Zooarchaeology; Digital Humanities and Public Archaeology

Lauren Malkoun - Archaeology of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire; Mediterranean Network; Landscape Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Post-Colonialism, Colonialism, and Heritage; Post-Colonial Archaeology; Museology; Cultural Continuity

Anna Selden - Visual culture of the Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; gender and sexuality in the ancient world; the body, dress, and performance in the ancient world; identity, ethnicity, and hybridity; Western Anatolian archaeology (Lydia, Ionia, Phrygia)

Second Year

Stefano Aprà - Bronze and Iron Age Levantine History and Archaeology; Middle and Late Bronze Age Mesopotamia; Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Arabian Peninsula; early urbanization processes and state formation; Landscape Archaeology; Digital Humanities and computational approaches to Archaeology

Isabel Grossman-Sartain - State religion in the ancient Mediterranean and Near-East, women's roles in the Roman state, Imperial Roman gender politics, interaction between centralized state religion and popular cults in the ancient Mediterranean, state ritual, gender and sexuality studies, systems of imperial ideology, social and cultural history

Talia Sankari - Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, archaeology of the ancient Near East, archaeology of the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean, death and burial

Third Year

Allyson Blanck - Ancient Medicine, Bioarcheology, Hippocratic and Galenic texts, Surgery, Wound Care

Manolis Mavromatis - Minoan Archaeology; Post-Colonial Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Museology; Aegean Prehistory; Critical approaches to cultural appropriation; Critical approaches to the idea of continuation; Decolonisation of Minoan Archaeology; Interdisciplinary Archaeology; The relationship between Archaeology and evolving technologies; Critical approaches to current practices in archaeological exhibitions

Vikentiy Parshuto - Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Central Asia, mostly Tukharistan and Sogdiana; Historical and Socio-Economic context of Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan; Iranian Archaeology; Steppe Archaeology

Tianrui Zhu - Political economy of the Eurasian steppes and peripheries; archaeology of Central, Inner, and East Asia; transmission of technology in the ancient world; biomolecular archaeology; archaeomaterials; statistics and programming

Fourth Year

Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli - History and material culture of the eastern Mediterranean; Iron Age polities of the Levant; Anatolian and Semitic epigraphy (Hittite, Luwian, Phoenician, Aramaic); monuments and public space; religious practice and discourse; memory studies; heritage; critical antiquity

Yu Song - Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia; art history and archaeology of ancient Near East; social and cultural history; Assyriology and Akkadian; cross-regional exchange and cultural transmission in Mesopotamia

Sixth Year

Soraya Field Fiorio - Intellectual history of the ancient Near East; history of literature, science, and religion; transmission of culture and memory from Mesopotamia through Anatolia and the Aegean

Dissertation

Ida Adsbøl Christensen - Cross-cultural exchange and knowledge transmission in Graeco-Roman Egypt; Ancient Egyptian divination and the history of astrological theory and practice; The development of ancient sciences; Egyptology; Papyrology

Nour Ammari - Late antique and early Islamic visual expression; cultural identity formation; historiography; art history and theory; reception studies; iconoclasm

Priya Barchi - Cultural hybridity and Hellenistic identity in Bactria and the Northern Indian Subcontinent during the Kushan period; Archaeology and cultural history of South Asia; and Indo-Roman trade relations

Narges Bayani - Bronze age of Iran and Central Asia, formation of frontiers and borders on the Iranian Plateau

Lylaah Bhalerao - Interactions between India, Africa and the Greco-Roman world; race in antiquity; material culture in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds; black studies and Classics

Kyle Brunner - Amidst Empires, Faiths and Rivers: The Rise of Islamic in Mesopotamia and the Formation of Umayyad al-Jazira

Mariana Castro - "Studies on Turquoise: Eurasian Connectivity, Peripheral Landscapes, and Pastoralist Economies in BCE Central Asia"

Braden Cordivari - Iron Age Anatolia and Greece; Metallurgy; Pyrotechnology; Craft production; Archaeological science (inorganic materials); Human-environment relationships

Emily Everest-Phillips - Cultural and intellectual history of "Eurasian late antiquity"; Sasanian Iranian diaspora in Central Asia and China; movement of ideas and peoples across linguistic and cultural boundaries; cosmologies and cultural geographies

Emily Frank - Conservation of Material Culture; Art, Archaeology, and Cultural History of the Ancient Mediterranean; Technical Imaging; Scientific Analysis; Digital Humanities; Ancient Repair, Maintenance, and Intervention; Theory

Kechu Huang - "Kingship Across the Boundary of Death: Early Dynastic Egypt (c.3200-2686 BC) and Late Shang China (c.1250-1050 BC)"

Shannon Monroe - Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia; bioarchaeology; homeplace and displacement; frontier formation and mobility in the ancient world; pedagogically situating "Central Asia" in a World History context; theories of embodiment; history of monasticism; history of movement (biologically and culturally); experimental history writing

Samantha Rainford - Intellectual and social history of the ancient Near East; Late Bronze Age Syria; peripheral Mesopotamia; law concerning gender; family law and household religion; second and first millennium Mesopotamia; the intersection of law and religion in historiographical, legal, and ritual texts and practices; legal and religious motifs in textual evidence

Ryan Schnell - Cultural history of Anatolia and the Ancient Near East, Religious and Cultural Exchange and Transmission

Christina Stefanou - History and Archaeology of Greece and the Mediterranean, cultural interactions and socioeconomic processes between the Aegean populations and non-European societies, Early Iron Age and Archaic Crete

Katherine Thomson - Premodern economic history, the development of fiscal and monetary institutions, currency debasement

Dylan G. Winchell - Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean; Early seafaring technology and maritime networks; Societal collapse, transition, and adaptation

Jingyi Zhou - Multiculturalism and Identity in Late Antique and Early Medieval Eurasia; Early and Medieval China; North, East, and Central Asian Art, Archaeology, and Civilizations; Funerary and Religious Practices; Cultural Exchange, State Formation, Military Forces and Frontier Management