About Me

I recently completed my Ph.D. at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, where I wrote a dissertation on network dynamics in the Euboean Gulf in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Originally from Corcoran, Minnesota, I attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I studied Anthropology and Classics, and received my B.A. in the Spring of 2007. I have also spent time at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2006 for a Summer Session and in 2010-2011 as a Regular Member. I have done fieldwork in Portugal, the United States, and in Greece at the Athenian Agora, Lefkandi, and with the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project. Most recently, I have organized and led surveys in Guatemala and in Jordan, where I am currently the field director of the survey component of the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project. I am primarily a student of Mediterranean archaeology, with a specific focus on the Aegean and its trans-Mediterranean interactions through time, especially in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, and in diachronic archaeologies of landscape in Greece and in Jordan.  More broadly, I am interested in technological change (especially the inception and development of iron metallurgy), networks, urbanism, the archaeology of regions, and comparative approaches to complex societies. These all fall within much wider interests in archaeological theory, ethics, historiography, and world archaeology.

You can find more information through the links below and on my academia.edu page: http://brown.academia.edu/AlexKnodell.

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Alex_Knodell@brown.edu

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University
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