Education   

2008     
M.A., University of Southampton, Department of Archaeology - Maritime Archaeology (First with Distinction)
"Trends in Public Construction at the Principal Harbours of Imperial Rome", supervised by Prof Simon Keay and Dr Lucy Blue

2006     
B.A, University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Classical Studies (Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Sigma Phi)

Employment  

2011 - 2013     
Research Associate in Statistics & Assessment, Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Washington, DC, USA

2008 - 2010     
Geophysics Research Assistant, Camerone Archaeological Service, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy

Project Participation   

2017 - current     
Abydos Middle Cemetery Project, Abydos, Egypt - Spatial Analysis

2016 - current     
Defining Settlement in the Nile Valley: Geophysical Prospection in the Region of Jebel Barkal, Ancient Napata, Sudan - Principal Investigator

2014 - current     
Notion Archaeological Project, Ahmetbeyli, Turkey - Head of Geophysical Survey

2011 - current    
Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia, Pompeii, Italy - Spatial Data/CAD Specialist

2016     
Labraunda Project, Milas, Turkey - Head of Geophysical Survey

2016     
Olynthos Project, Olynthos, Greece - Geophysical Survey Specialist

2014     
Canterbury Hinterland Project, Canterbury, UK - Senior Scientist (Geophysical Survey)

2014     
Olynthos Project, Olynthos, Greece - Head of GIS, Remote Sensing, and Site Topography

2011     
Portus Project, Fiumicino, Italy - Project Assistant

2011     
Isola Sacra Survey, Fiumicino, Italy - Project Assistant

2010     
Scavi di Falacrinae, Cittareale, Italy - Project Assistant / Site Topographer

2007 - 2009     
Portus Project, Fiumicino, Italy - Excavation Area Supervisor / Laser-scanning Specialist

2007 - 2009     
Enculturating Environments Project, Bakersfield, California, USA - Field Supervisor and Principal Topographer

2006     
Porolissum Forum Project, Porolissum, Romania - Project Assistant

2005     
Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia, Pompeii, Italy - Student

2005     
Il Castellum Aquae di Porta Romana ad Ostia, Ostia Antica, Italy - Volunteer

My dissertation explores patterns in the development of maritime cities along the Aegean coast of Asia Minor in the early Roman period, specifically looking at the responses of the cities to the rise of Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean from the 2nd c. BCE – 2nd c. CE.  Through a regional study of architectural developments in major port towns during this period I discuss the development of the maritime façades at these sites, and the nature of that change, specifically by evaluating the visual impact of the built environment on the ‘outsider’, or ‘visitor’, experience as one approaches from the sea.  I then contextualize these results within the changing political and power dynamics of the Mediterranean associated with the expansion of Rome.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Classical Art & Archaeology