Ph.D. student in Archaeology and the Ancient World, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2007 - present

M.A. (with Distinction) in Aegean Archaeology (Research Track), University of Sheffield, 2006 - 2007

• Dissertation: Peopling the Landscape: Examining Continuity and Change in LBA-EIA Laconia

M.A. Hons. (1st class, proxime accessit to Best Student in Arts) in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of St. Andrews, 2002 - 2006

• Dissertation: Back to the Future: The Reconstruction and Reception of Monuments in Athens

Research Interests

• Archaeology of Mediterranean complex societies, especially in the prehistoric and historic Aegean

• Landscape and survey archaeology

• Archaeological theory

• Reception studies, particularly the Western conceptualization of Greece in the nineteenth century

Fellowships & Scholarships | Honors & Awards

Modern Greek Language Summer Scholarship (declined), University of Thessaloniki, 2008

Joukowsky Presidential Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2007-08

AHRC Research Preparation Masters Scheme Scholarship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2006-07

Petrie Watson Exhibition Fieldwork Award, University of Sheffield, 2007

Wiedemann Fund & SPHS Travel Award, 2006

Bell Prize (for being proxime accessit to Best Student in Arts), University of St. Andrews, 2006

Leventis Foundation Travel Grant, 2006

Lady Maxwell Prize (for Best Performance in Junior Honours Classics), University of St. Andrews, 2005

Adam Smith Thompson Travel Scholarship, University of St. Andrews, 2005

Tessa & Mortimer Wheeler Memorial Fund Travel Grant, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2005

Hamish & Eileen Todd Prize (for Best Performance in Senior Sub-Honours Classics), University of St. Andrews, 2004

Rector's Fund Travel Award, University of St. Andrews, 2003

Current Research, Projects & Field Experience

2008 - present Research Assistant, Anglo-American Antiquarians Project.

2007 - present Research Associate, Sangro Valley Project.

2008 Team Leader, Terra Incognita Project, Italy

2008 Field Assistant, Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project, Greece

2006 Site Supervision, Sangro Valley Project, Italy

2006 Assistant Archivist, University of St. Andrews, UK

2005 Unit Supervision, Sangro Valley Project, Italy

2005 Field Assistant & Draughtsperson, Kato Phana Archaeological Project, Greece

2004 Field Assistant, Sangro Valley Project, Italy

2003 Participant, BSA Undergraduate Summer School, Greece

2001 Field Assistant, Flag Fen, UK

Presented Papers

• Metallurgy, urbanization, and behavioral structures: a synthetic approach to increased social cohesion in the Cypriot LBA to be given at 2008 ASOR Annual Meeting in Boston

Administrative & Committee Duties

2008 - Graduate Student Representative, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University

2006 - 2007 M.A. Aegean Archaeology Representative, Graduate Liason Committee, University of Sheffield

Membership of Professional Organisations

2008 - present American Schools of Oriental Research

2008 - present Society for American Archaeology

2006 - present Archaeological Institute of America

2005 - present Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies