Graduate Student, Classics
About
My research interests focus on landscape, particularly its instrumental role in the production of social boundaries and the constitution of authority. I am interested in multiscalar questions of settlement formation, economy, and social interaction within the insular landscapes of Cyprus during the first millenium BCE, following the dissolution of LBA polities, and how emerging social boundaries articulated with built and non-built environments. I'm also interested in materiality, hybridization, social archaeology, as well as environmental reconstruction using botanical, dendrological and paleoclimatic data in order to elucidate tensions between environmental and sociopolitical change. My other research interests include constructions of identity, place-attachment and landscape in ancient Greek and Latin literature.
I've worked on field projects throughout Italy (Tuscany, Rome, Stabia), Petra, Jordan, and the Tsaghkahovit plain of Armenia. Most recently I have participated in the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project (KAMBE) on Cyprus, which uses geophysical equipment to investigate urbanism and spatial organization in two LBA sites. In 2012-2013 I will be a Fulbright Student scholar at CAARI on Cyprus.
