I am currently a third-year graduate student at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. Originally from Corcoran, Minnesota, I attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I studied Classics and Anthropology, receiving my B.A. in the Spring of 2007. I also spent the summer of 2006 in Greece as a member of a summer session with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and have done fieldwork in Portugal with the JIAAW's project at Tongobriga, and in Greece at the Athenian Agora, Lefkandi and the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project. I am primarily a student of Mediterranean Archaeology, specifically the Aegean and its trans-Mediterranean interactions through time, especially in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages.  I am particularly interested in technological change (especially the inception and development of iron metallurgy) and the changing networks that accompany it. These all fall within much wider interests in archaeological theory, ethics, historiography, and "world" archaeology.

• Teaching Assistant for The Archaeology of College Hill with Krysta Ryzewski
• Approaches to Archaeological Survey in the Old World with John F. Cherry
• Ceramic Analysis for Archaeology with Laurel Bestock
• Skills Training in Material Culture Studies I with Sue Alcock

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Alex_Knodell@brown.edu

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