I am currently a second year doctoral student in the
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Originally from the UK, I completed my first degree in Ancient History and Archaeology at the
University of St. Andrews, with a focus on the archaeology of Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman Greece. I subsequently moved to
Sheffield University to read for the M.A. in Aegean Archaeology, which I was awarded with Distinction. My chief interests lie in addressing social change through synthetic, diachronic frameworks above the level of the site. As such, I am especially concerned with the conjunction between patterns in settlement archaeology and notions of community, and how exogenous and endogenous forces cause these to develop in tandem. In terms of exploring this, I'm interested in looking at how theories of change and/or stasis can explain social change in a variety of contexts, but in particular Adriatic Italy c.200 BC - AD 100 ('Romanization') and in the Aegean, c.2200 BC - 1900 BC (development of complex polities on Crete, disappearance of Keros-Syros/Kastri etc).
Contact Information
Email: Thomas_Leppard@brown.edu
Telephone: (401) 339-9987
Mail: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World,
Brown University,
Box 1837,
Providence, RI 02912
