Department of Classical Studies

• Archaeology of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean
• The Aegean Bronze Age
• Ancient Technology and Craftsmanship
• Cross–Cultural Interactions

I am a classical archaeologist whose research explores the archaeology, art, and architecture of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. I study ancient technology, particularly stone working and metallurgy, to assess local, trans-regional, and intercultural craft connections throughout the latter half of the second millennium BC. My study of the tool marks and construction methods of the Lion Gate Relief at Mycenae, for instance, highlighted a technological link between Mycenaean Greece and Hittite Anatolia. My current book project, tentatively titled Stone Working in the Mycenaean World: Regionalism, Craft Interaction, and Geopolitical Relations, draws upon physical tools and tool marks on worked stone to assess potential craft and political relations throughout the Greek Mainland during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1050 BC). Prior to coming to Indiana University, I served as the Assistant Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) and later held a postdoctoral teaching position in the Department of History at North Carolina (NC) State University.

• Ancient Athletics
• Art and Archaeology of Greece
• Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
• Classical Art and Archaeology
• Classical Mythology
• Greek Sanctuaries: Archaeology of Religious Space
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Topography and Monuments of Athens

Articles

“Tools,” in A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, edited by I.S. Lemos and A. Kotsonas, 523-537 (Hoboken, NJ, 2020).

"Contextualizing Mycenaean Hoards: Metal Control on the Greek Mainland at the End of the Bronze Age," American Journal of Archaeology 122.4 (2018): 509-539.

"Experimental Stonecutting with the Mycenaean Pendulum Saw," Antiquity 92.361 (2018): 217-232.

"Making the Lion Gate Relief at Mycenae: Tool Marks and Foreign Influence," American Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (2014): 451-488.

"Exploring Sacred Space: GIS Applications for Analyzing the Athienou-Malloura Sanctuary," in Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of the Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, edited by M. K. Toumazou, P.N. Kardulias, and D. B. Counts, 291-302 (Boston, 2011). [with James A. Johnson]

"Mortuary Variability at Salamis (Cyprus): Relationships between and within the Royal Necropolis and the Cellarka Cemetery," Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23.2 (2010): 143-167.