This dissertation comparatively examines the acquisition, military organization, and historical development of the last provinces fully incorporated into the Roman Empire – Dacia and Arabia …
Across the Mediterranean, certain natural features in the landscape have been ascribed significant cultural and religious power repeatedly over significant spans of time. Revisited continually …
This dissertation is an archaeological exploration of Montserrat’s ongoing volcanic crisis that integrates both how the island has changed as a result of the eruptions, …
This dissertation studies the comparative dynamics of community formation and flux in Ionian Anatolia and the Northwestern Mediterranean during the early first millennium BCE. The …
My dissertation is a study of imperial dynamics and borderlands of the Hittite Empire. The Hittite Empire dominated parts of what is now modern Turkey …
My dissertation examines the everyday lives of small-scale craft producers in mainland Greece and Crete during the Classical and Hellenistic periods (ca. 480-30 BCE). Many …
My research seeks to clarify the nature of the glassmaking industry in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the 8th-12th centuries CE. Studying glass assemblages from …
This dissertation is focused on the prehistoric, indigenous culture of the northern two Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Menorca) during the second half of the first …
This dissertation applies notions of governmentality to resource landscapes in the Roman province of Asia Minor. My argument is that Roman techniques of governmentality, in …
This dissertation presents the first comprehensive study of the archaeological record of sacrifice and the site-specific character of the ritual in Republican Rome and Latium. …
This dissertation examines the social and economic impacts of Roman conquest on the mining industry in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Roman province …
Extramural cemeteries are part of the visual, social, and symbolic landscapes of settlements. They can transform according to the needs of changing social conditions, but …
This dissertation explores the dynamic world of Christian pilgrims in the eastern Mediterranean (ca. 400-600 CE) through a landscape archaeological approach, using archaeological evidence as …
Despite being thousands of miles from the Mediterranean Sea, the early United States was littered with the remains of classical antiquity. In creating their new …
In this dissertation, I examine the local outcomes of increased economic interaction and culture contact in central Italy during the first millennium BCE, a period …
This dissertation posits the development of ‘communities of practice,’ and a redefinition of Late Roman identity, on Crete and Cyprus in the transitional mid-7th through …
This dissertation concerns itself with Graeco-Egyptian uterine amulets, a type of medico-magical tool used to combat bodily suffering in the Eastern Roman Empire from the …