Duccio Calamandrei, Sara de Sanctis, Lorella Molinaro, Aidan Mulkerrin, Silvia Pallecchi, Elena Santoro

Allen Maller

Rabbi Allen S. Maller is a retired Reform Rabbi living in Los Angeles. He is a published scholar of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), world religions, and social psychology. His web site is rabbimaller.com. 

Amanda Laoupi

Amanda Laoupi studied at the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens, as well as at the Universities of Patras and Ioannina. She has a PhD in Environmental Archaeology and has done post-doctoral work in Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies. She has a MSc in Environmental Protection and Management. She is the founder of the interdisciplinary scientific field of Disaster Archaeology (2005). She is the Vice-President of the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Research of Ancient Cultures & Archaeoenvironments (IIRACA). She has worked for the field of Environmental Archaeology (Athens University) as a scientific collaborator, as well as for the Goulandris Museum of Natural History and  the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards and Proactive Planning, as an associate researcher.

Anabel Ford

Anabel Ford is dedicated to decoding the ancient Maya landscape. While living in Guatemala in 1978, she learned from local people that the Maya forest was an edible garden when she mapped a 30-km transect between the Petén sites of Tikal and Yaxhá. In 1983, she discovered and later mapped the Maya city El Pilar. In 1993, after settlement survey and excavations, she launched a multidisciplinary program to understand the culture and nature of El Pilar. Ford’s publications are cited nationally and internationally as part of the foundation of Maya settlement pattern studies. Her archaeological themes are diverse, appearing in geological, ethnobiological, geographical, and botanical arenas and locally in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Her concern for management of cultural monuments, in-situ conservation, and tourism appear in Getty publications.

Anabel Ford and Maggie Knapp

Anabel Ford is dedicated to decoding the ancient Maya landscape. While living in Guatemala in 1978, she learned from local people that the Maya forest was an edible garden when she mapped a 30-km transect between the Petén sites of Tikal and Yaxhá. In 1983, she discovered and later mapped the Maya city El Pilar. In 1993, after settlement survey and excavations, she launched a multidisciplinary program to understand the culture and nature of El Pilar. Ford’s publications are cited nationally and internationally as part of the foundation of Maya settlement pattern studies. Her archaeological themes are diverse, appearing in geological, ethnobiological, geographical, and botanical arenas and locally in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Her concern for management of cultural monuments, in-situ conservation, and tourism appear in Getty publications.

Maggie Knapp is an Art History and Global Studies double major studying at UC Santa Barbara, currently working for the nonprofit ESP~Maya under the direction of Dr. Anabel Ford. Knapp plans to work with cultural patrimony and social development serving indigenous areas of the world such as that of the Maya. Knapp has authored articles in the areas of both art criticism and anthropology, researched aesthetic and social theory, and will be pursuing graduate work in art as a tool of cultural and economic development.

Arthur Segal and Michael Eisenberg

Arthur Segal is a full professor in the Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel. He is the Director of the Hippos-Sussita Excavations Project and is the co-author of the forthcoming 2012 publication, Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis: The First Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2000-2011), published by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa. His main fields of interest are town planning in the Hellenistic-Roman East; architecture in the Hellenistic-Roman East; temples in the Hellenistic-Roman East, and; entertainment structures in the Hellenistic-Roman East.

Michael Eisenberg is Co-Director of the Hippos-Sussita Excavations Project, Director of the Tel Shikmona Archaeological Project, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa. His main fields of research include military architecture during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods; the art of siege warfare in the Graeco-Roman World, and; the Decapolis. He is co-author of the Hippos-Sussita monograph series 2003-2010, and co-author of the forthcoming 2012 publication, Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis: The First Twelve Seasons of Excavations (2000-2011), published by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa. 

Bonita de Klerk

Bonita de Klerk works with Dr. Lee Berger at the Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, as the Laboratory Manager for the Malapa Project (the discovery of the first new species of Hominid in Southern Africa in 70 years). She is also a PhD Candidate at the Institute. She conducted masters research on the effects of hybridization on Black Wildebeest evolution. For her PhD, she focused on human body size variation with specific reference to a small bodied population of fossil Homo sapiens from Palau, Micronesia.  She is actively involved in science communication and outreach and is often called upon to speak about subjects related to the Cradle of Humankind and Evolution. 

Brandon Olson

Brandon Olson is pursuing his Ph.D. in the department of archaeology at Boston University and has earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology (Fort Lewis College) and graduate degrees in archaeology (Sheffield University), ancient history (University of North Dakota), and classics (Pennsylvania State University). His research interests include the archaeology and history of the Hellenistic and Roman east with particular focus on ancient warfare, epigraphy, ceramics, settlement, GIS applications to archaeology, and social history. He is currently involved with ongoing archaeological projects in the Eastern Mediterranean including the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project in southern Cyprus, the Mopsos Survey in southern Turkey, the Tel Akko excavations in northern Israel, the Polis Chrysochous excavations in southern Cyprus, and the excavations at Mendes in northern Egypt.

Briana Pobiner

Briana Pobiner, the Science Outreach & Education Program Specialist for the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program, has a BA in Evolutionary Studies from Bryn Mawr College, where she created her own major, and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University. Her research centers on the evolution of human diet (with a focus on meat-eating), but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee carnivory. She has done fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Indonesia and has been supported in her research by the Fulbright-Hays program, the Leakey Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, Rutgers University, the Society for American Archaeology, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Her favorite field moments include falling asleep in a tent in the Serengeti in Tanzania while listening to the distant whoops of hyenas, watching a pride of lions eat a zebra carcass on the Kenyan equator, and discovering fossil bones that were last touched, butchered and eaten by one of her 1.5 million year old ancestors. She came to the Smithsonian in 2005 to help work on the upcoming Hall of Human Origins, got bitten by the “public understanding of science” bug and hasn’t looked back, continuing to do her research while leading the Human Origins Program’s education and outreach efforts. She currently manages the Human Origins Program's public programs, website content, social media, and volunteer content training.

Briana Pobiner and Kris Kovarovic

Briana Pobiner, the Science Outreach & Education Program Specialist for the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program, has a BA in Evolutionary Studies from Bryn Mawr College, where she created her own major, and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University. Her research centers on the evolution of human diet (with a focus on meat-eating), but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee carnivory. She has done fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Indonesia and has been supported in her research by the Fulbright-Hays program, the Leakey Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, Rutgers University, the Society for American Archaeology, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Her favorite field moments include falling asleep in a tent in the Serengeti in Tanzania while listening to the distant whoops of hyenas, watching a pride of lions eat a zebra carcass on the Kenyan equator, and discovering fossil bones that were last touched, butchered and eaten by one of her 1.5 million year old ancestors. She came to the Smithsonian in 2005 to help work on the upcoming Hall of Human Origins, got bitten by the “public understanding of science” bug and hasn’t looked back, continuing to do her research while leading the Human Origins Program’s education and outreach efforts. She currently manages the Human Origins Program's public programs, website content, social media, and volunteer content training.

Kris “Fire” Kovarovic, PhD, is Lecturer in Human Evolution at Durham University, UK. Originally from Connecticut, Kris moved to Montréal, Canada where she attended McGill University to complete a BA in Anthropology and Religious Studies, followed by an MSc in Archaeology and a PhD in Anthropology from University College London, UK (UCL). Kris subsequently spent time as a postdoctoral researcher in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and then returned to UCL to take up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship prior to moving to Durham. Her broad research interests include palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and faunal analysis, particularly at Plio-Pleistocene hominin sites in East Africa. Her current research programme continues to explore the ways in which mammalian communities are shaped by their environments and how this can inform our understanding of the past distribution of mammals and habitats, as well as investigating the differences in habitat signals provided by fossil bovid dentition and skeletal remains. She is most excited and inspired by her role as co-director of BONES with good friend and co-conspirator, Briana Pobiner.

Bruce Bachand

Bruce Bachand is a Research Affiliate with the New World Archaeological Foundation of Brigham Young University and Director of the Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Project since 2008. A recent Fulbright fellow, Bruce has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society for his research on early Mesoamerican societies. He holds degrees in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (B.A. 1993), Brigham Young University (M.A. 1997), and the University of Arizona (Ph.D. 2006). Prior to his Chiapas investigations, Bruce supervised fieldwork in the Petén rainforest of Guatemala at the Maya sites of Nakbe, Aguateca, and Punta de Chimino. He describes himself as “an anthropologist who happens to dig in the dirt” and a student of cultural history. His scholarly interests range widely from anthropological theory to pottery analysis and Bayesian radiocarbon dating–subjects that articulate well in archaeological storytelling. He has authored a variety of essays and articles, but his most prized effort remains a dissertation chapter summarizing ten years of research on Preclassic Lowland Maya civilization. He is currently working on an essay that clarifies the material practices of Zoque culture through time. Bruce’s fascination with the symbolic dimensions of human life, both modern and ancient, has led him to spend prolonged periods of time in Japan, Europe, the American West, Mexico, and Central America. He vividly recalls starting his archaeological endeavors by promptly impaling his finger with a trowel while digging a Jōmon pit house alongside three well-trained and obliging elderly Japanese women. His most wretched archaeological memory is the excavation of a prehistoric lithic scatter underneath a partly decomposed, stinking sheep carcass ridden with rat feces outside a southern Utah rock shelter. As an anthropologist he has been influenced greatest by the writings of Marshall Sahlins, Michael Jackson, and Antonio Gramsci. In archaeology, he finds a certain affinity with the writings of Richard Bradley, Ian Hodder, and Julian Thomas. In Mesoamerican archaeology, Gordon Willey, Gareth Lowe, Michael and William Coe, and Kent Flannery have left indelible impressions. Raised in southeastern Massachusetts, he is married with two children and resides in the Salt Lake City area.

Carol Tedesco

Carol Tedesco is an internationally recognized Spanish Colonial coin expert and historic shipwreck professional who has worked with projects in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Pacific.  She has curated tens of thousands of coins and is considered the foremost authority on 1622 fleet treasure coins.  Carol is author of the book Treasure Coins of the 1622 Shipwrecks Nuestra Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita, as well as numerous archaeological mystery articles.  Her accomplishments have been recognized by the Who's Who of Entrepreneurs and with membership in the Explorer's Club.  She is a Founding Member of the Professional Marine Explorers Society. Today she consults for some of the most prominent historic shipwreck search and recovery companies in the world.

Cassandra Morris

Cassandra Morris is currently writing her thesis to attain a Masters of Maritime Archaeology degree at Flinders University in South Australia. She is interested in underwater aircraft sites and underwater archaeology in Africa and South East Asia. She is writing her thesis on ethics in maritime museums.

Cynthia Finlayson

Cynthia Finlayson currently directs the Syro-American Expeditions to Palmyra and Apamea, Syria, as well as Brigham Young University/Syrian Department of Antiquities Projects at the Azem Palace in Damascus. Finlayson has also previously excavated at Petra, Jordan. She teaches archaeology at Brigham Young University. 

Dan McLerran

As Founder and Editor of Popular Archaeology Magazine, Dan is a freelance writer and journalist specializing in archaeology.  He studied anthropology and archaeology in undergraduate and graduate school and has been an active participant on archaeological excavations in the U.S. and abroad.  He is the creator and administrator of Archaeological Digs, a popular weblog about archaeological excavation and field school opportunities.  

Dan Thompson

Dr. Dan Thompson is Director, Global Projects and Global Heritage Network with the Global Heritage Fund (GHF). He joined the GHF full time in January 2008, having previously conducted fieldwork at GHF-supported projects in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala, and at Ani and Çatalhöyük, both in Turkey. As Director of Global Projects and Global Heritage Network (GHN), he oversees all aspects of GHF projects at the home office, manages the Global Heritage Network, acts as senior editor of print and web publications, and provides support to fundraising efforts.

Dan has BA degrees in Anthropology/Geography and Journalism, an MA in Near Eastern Studies from UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology at UCL in London, England. His research interests include archaeological GIS and multispectral imagery analysis, landscape archaeology and cultural heritage monitoring, management and preservation. Dan has spent 23 years living outside the United States and speaks some French, Turkish, Italian, Spanish and German.  Dan is also an Expert Member of the International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM).

David Beard

David Beard is a freelance archaeologist specializing in the medieval period. He has worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. He has been involved in continuing education for many years and has taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and he was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral.

He is the author of and tutor for a OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the programme director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.   His website can be found at: http://www.archeurope.com/

David M. Stothers and Patrick M. Tucker

David Stothers is a Professor of Anthropology (retired) from the University of Toledo, in Toledo, Ohio, USA.  He has a Ph. D. in anthropology from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) in 1974, a M.A. from the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1971, and a B.A from McMaster University (Canada) in 1969. He has worked on archaeological sites of the Eskimo in the sub-arctic Yukon and Neutral Iroquois sites in Ontario, Canada.  Since 1973, Stothers has concentrated his archaeological investigations on the western basin of Lake Erie (southeast Michigan, northwest Ohio, and north-central Ohio) that run the gamut from prehistoric (Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Upper Mississippian time periods), protohistoric, and historic sites.  He has published extensively on archaeology of the region, and mentored many graduate students who have written theses on archaeological sites of the region.

Patrick Tucker is an avocational archaeologist with extensive experience on prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in central Texas, the midwestern U.S., and the lower Great Lakes. He has an M.A. Ed. (1981) and B.A. (1973) in anthropology and education from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA.  A former contract archaeologist, Tucker has spent the last fifteen years working with David Stothers to analyze the material culture and document historical sites excavated by the University of Toledo, Laboratory of Archaeology, to restore them to their historical context and archaeological significance.  He has several published articles and special publications on history and historical archaeology of the western Lake Erie region.

Eleanor Breen

Eleanor Breen is supervisor of the Archaeological Collections Online project.  She is also currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Before returning to school, she worked at Mount Vernon excavating sites such as George Washington’s whiskey distillery. 

Emma Johnston

Emma Johnston is currently studying for a PhD in Volcanology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Bristol University (U.K). With a background in Archaeology and an interest in the natural world and its interaction with human populations, she has been able to join her passion for the two subjects focusing her research on large-scale eruptions and their effects on ancient civilisations. Emma has worked on excavations in the U.K, Greece and Indonesia, including the 2011 Tambora excavations.  

Emma Oxenby Wohlfart

As a general editor and writer for Popular Archaeology Magazine, E P Wohlfart is a historian specializing in ancient history with a degree in classical archaeology and a background in heritage education.  She has authored numerous articles on historical and archaeology-related subjects.  She currently resides in Sweden.

Eric Cline

Dr. Eric H. Cline, a former Fulbright scholar, is an award-winning author, teacher, and advisor with degrees in Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, and Ancient History from Dartmouth College (1982), Yale University (1984), and the University of Pennsylvania (1991) respectively. He currently serves as Chair of the department.

Dr. Cline’s primary fields of study are the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present and the international connections between Greece, Egypt, and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE). He is an experienced field archaeologist, with 28 seasons of excavation and survey to his credit since 1980. He has worked in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, including eight seasons at the site of Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel, where he is currently the Associate Director (USA). He is also Co-Director of the new series of archaeological excavations at the site of Tel Kabri, also located in Israel.

A prolific researcher and author with ten books and nearly 100 articles to his credit, Dr. Cline is perhaps best known for his book, The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age (Ann Arbor 2000; paperback 2002), which received the 2001 Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) Publication Award for “Best Popular Book on Archaeology,” was a Main Selection of the Natural Science Book Club, sold out its first printing in less than four months, and has now been translated and published into Croatian (2005). 

Dr. Cline has been interviewed by syndicated national and international television and radio hosts including Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "Good Morning America," Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum on Fox New Channel's "America's Newsroom," Fergus Nicoll on the BBC World Service/The World Today, Kojo Nnamdi on NPR’s “Public Interest” show, Michael Dresser on “The Michael Dresser” show, and Richard Sheehe on WRGW.

Born in Washington, DC (at GWU Hospital) and raised in California (San Francisco and Los Angeles), Dr. Cline is married and has several children, two cats, and varying numbers of fish.

Fernando Contreras

Fernando has been Director of the Ecomuseum de Cap de Cavalleria and the excavations at Sanitja since 1997. He is President of the association, “Sa Nitja. Gestión del Patrimonio Mediterráneo”,  founded in 1993. He obtained the Prize Fundació “la Caixa” in 1992: “Revalorització Ciutats Romanes de Catalunya i Illes Balears”. FPI U.A.B. Internship 1991-95. His research fields are: Romanization in Menorca; archaeological software; cultural resource management; museum development for the heritage of Sanitja and the Cap de Cavalleria. Previously, he was Director of the excavations in Mago (Pla Mirall, 2000-2002), Iamo (Correos, 1999), and Sanisera (Prospection 1993-1995, Excavation 1996-1998). His projects involving Menorca’s cultural heritage include: the Defense Tower in Fornells (CIM – 1996); the Ecomuseum de Cap de Cavalleria (Leader II – 1997), and the Cavalleria Lighthouse (Futures – 1998).

Francesca Croal

Heritage on the Wire

James Dau

James Dau received his undergraduate degree in anthropology from Michigan Technological University, and has worked on sites of industrial heritage in both Michigan and New York.  Now a writer, he seeks to raise public awareness of archaeological discoveries across the world.  When he’s not writing, he’s busy exploring wherever he happens to be.

James Kensington

Jason Weaver

Joanie Meharry

Joanie Meharry is currently completing an MA in International and Comparative Legal Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. This summer she lived in Kabul while researching the archaeological site of Mes Aynak with a Global Heritage Fund Fellowship and a Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle Grant, as well as directing the project, Untold Stories: the Oral History of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage, with a Hollings Center for International Dialogue Grant. She writes often on Afghanistan’s culture and politics. Joanie also holds an MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

 To contact: joanie.meharry@gmail.com

Joanie Meharry and Shaharzad Akbar

Joanie Meharry is currently completing an MA in International and Comparative Legal Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. This summer she lived in Kabul while researching the archaeological site of Mes Aynak with a Global Heritage Fund Fellowship and a Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle Grant, as well as directing the project, Untold Stories: the Oral History of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage, with a Hollings Center for International Dialogue Grant. She writes often on Afghanistan’s culture and politics. Joanie also holds an MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

Shaharzad Akbar is partner and senior consultant with QARA Consulting, Inc. in Kabul, Afghanistan. Shaharzad studied anthropology at Smith College and recently completed an MPhil in Development Studies at University of Oxford.

Shaharzad has extensive media and development work experience in Afghanistan. In 2005, she was the journalism intern for the book Women of Courage. Reporting for the book, she traveled across Afghanistan to meet and interview active Afghan women in all sectors. She has also worked as local reporter for BBC for Afghanistan, producer and host of a youth talk show on radio Killid and writer and editor for several Afghan magazines and newspapers. In 2009, Shaharzad worked as a senior analyst and reporter for the principal domestic elections observers group in Afghanistan. She has also played a lead role in organizing several national conferences and events, most significantly the Afghan-Pak Joint Peace Jirga in 2007.

John Wreford

John Wreford is a freelance photojournalist living in the heart of the ancient Syrian city of Damascus.
 He has a fascination for the region's history, culture and political intrigue. This often sees him travelling throughout the Middle East working for clients as diverse as The Financial Times, the United Nations and the European Investment Bank.

His work has been exhibited in Aleppo, Istanbul, and Beirut and has appeared in publications around the world.

Jonathan A. Burns

Jonathan A. Burns, PhD, is a Lecturer in History at Juniata College (Huntingdon PA), Instructor of the Penn State University archaeology field school, and Research Director of a non-profit organization, AXIS Research, Inc. A native of Huntingdon County Pennsylvania, Jonathan attended Penn State University (University Park, PA) to complete a BA in Anthropology, followed by Colorado State University (Fort Collins CO) for his MA in Anthropology, and Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) for his PhD in Anthropology. His academic training is in North American archaeology with emphases on hunter-gatherer behavior, human ecology, and the analysis of archaeological spatial structure. He specializes in the detailed excavation of rockshelters, stratified sites, and colonial fortifications. He has directed 15 cultural resource management projects in Pennsylvania, and was mapping crew chief and heavy machinery monitor for the National Constitution Center site in Philadelphia. As the Research Director of a non-profit research organization, he strives to promote historic preservation and public awareness of cultural resources. Jonathan is an active instructor and lecturer, currently teaching at Juniata College, Penn State University, and Penn State Altoona. His current research explores trade and conflict on Pennsylvania’s colonial frontier through the mapping of archaeological site structure and investigation of the agents of trade and globalization.

Judith Schwartz

Having emigrated to Israel from the United States in 1969, Judith's long-term hobby of writing became a necessary vocation, and she received a position as an English language journalist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  In the mid 1970's she married and became a member of Kibbutz Ginosar, on the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), where journalism returned to an avocation, of use at times in her kibbutz work.  Now retired, writing and archaeology have taken an important place in her life, with digging at Bethsaida and Ancient Tiberias her prime interests in that field.  Judith also weaves and does ceramics "for fun".  She and her husband have continued to live and enjoy life at Kibbutz Ginosar. 

Kimberly Munro

Kimberly Munro is an archaeologist with seven years experience working for the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service. With excavation experience throughout the Southeastern United States and the Northern Coast and Central Highlands of Peru, Kimberly received her B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies, and her M.S. in Geographic Information Sciences from Florida State University. She has been involved with the PIARA Archaeological Field School located in the highlands of Peru since 2011, and will be returning to work as a crew chief for PIARA in the summer of 2012. With interests in GIS applications in Archaeology, remote sensing, landscape and settlement patterns, and coastal/highland interaction in central Peru, Kimberly will be starting work on her PhD at Louisiana State University in the fall of 2012.

Linda Eneix

A founding member of the Mediterranean Institute for Ancient Civilizations, Linda C. Eneix is America's foremost authority on the prehistoric Temple Culture of Malta.  As president of The OTS Foundation, (Old Temples Study), she oversees the prestigious Elderhostel and Road Scholar educational short-courses in Malta.  She is the author of numerous articles, and a classroom handbook for Maltese students.  Ms. Eneix has spoken for the Smithsonian Associates, has been consulted about the temples for film, television and print media in the USA and Europe, and has appeared on international television for the Discovery Network. 

Luiz Oosterbeek

Luiz Oosterbeek is a Coordinator Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Tomar with a PhD in Archaeology at the University College London and in Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Porto. He is the Director of the Museum of Prehistoric Rock Art of Mação, the Pro-President for Cooperation and International Relations of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and the Secretary-General of UISPP. He participated in inumerous scientific projects and produced various books and over one hundred scientific articles in various national and international journals.

Maggie Knapp

Maggie Knapp is an Art History and Global Studies double major studying at UC Santa Barbara, currently working for the nonprofit ESP~Maya under the direction of Dr. Anabel Ford. Knapp plans to work with cultural patrimony and social development serving indigenous areas of the world such as that of the Maya. Knapp has authored articles in the areas of both art criticism and anthropology, researched aesthetic and social theory, and will be pursuing graduate work in art as a tool of cultural and economic development.

Matthew Reeves

Matthew Reeves is the Director of Archaeology at James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange, Virginia.  His specialty is sites of the African Diaspora including plantation and freedman period sites, and Civil War sites.  In his work over the past two decades, Reeves has maintained a focus with public archaeology, most especially involving descendent groups and involving the public with experiential learning.


Meghan Morgan

Meghan Morgan served as a tour guide and volunteer representative in Nauvoo, Illinois for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the summers of 2009 and 2010 as part of an 18-month mission for the LDS church. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in communications and currently works for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management.

Meredith Poole with contributions by Andrew Edwards and Eric Schweickart

Meredith Poole has been a Staff Archaeologist with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for 26 years.  In addition to field work, her responsibilities include outreach and archaeology education.  Meredith received her MA in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary, and her BA from Hamilton College. 

Andrew Edwards is a Staff Archaeologist with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.  He received his BA and MA from the Anthropology Department at the College of William and Mary where he was employed as an archaeologist prior to his coming on staff at Colonial Williamsburg.

Eric Schweickart was employed as an Archaeological Technician on the Public Armoury Project by Colonial Williamsburg.  He is currently pursuing an MA at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester.

Photo shows: L-R: Eric Schweickart, Lucie Vinciguerra, Meredith Poole, Moriah Childers, Andrew Edwards, and Tanisha High at the Armoury's ravine site excavation.  

Michael Gordon

Michele Stopera Freyhauf

Michele is a graduate student at John Carroll University as a Religious Studies major.  She is the student representative on the Board for Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society (EGLBS) and a member of Sigma Alpha Nu.  She is also a student member of  SBL, AAR, AIA, ASOR, SSSR, and CTS.  Michele hopes to earn a Ph.D. in Religious Studies/Middle Eastern History where she will focus her research on Religious Syncretism, Anthropology of Religion, and the Old Testament, specifically with J source material. 

Mirjana Roksandic

Dr. Mirjana Roksandic is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Winnepeg. She conducts pioneering research in two distinct areas: the study of hominid fossils in Europe, and mortuary archaeology, with current fieldwork focusing on sites in Serbia, Portugal and Cuba. 

Nicolae Roddy

Dr. Nicolae Roddy, Associate Professor of Older Testament at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, has co-directed the Bethsaida Excavations Project since 1997, and the Virtual World Project (www.virtualworldproject.org) since 2006.  Roddy holds an M.A. in Theology from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in the area of Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman World from the University of Iowa. Roddy was appointed as a Fulbright scholar to Romania (1994-95), which resulted in his first book, The Romanian Version of the Testament of Abraham: Text, Translation, and Cultural Context (Society of Biblical Literature, 2001). He is also the author of several book chapters and journal articles on topics related to the Bible and archaeology. Nicolae Roddy is married to Alexandra, who along with his daughter Aurelia, assists in supervising the dig at Bethsaida. Aurelia has three younger siblings destined to dig.

Nina Mittendorf

Nina is our blogger and a regular editor/writer  for Popular Archaeology.  She holds an MA in Forensic Archaeology, a BA in Ancient History and Archaeology, and currently works as a field archaeologist in Canada .

Sa Nitja. Gestion del Patrimonio Mediterraneo

The Ecomuseum de Cap de Cavalleria is an institution welcoming visitors to the Cavalleria area and the Sanitja harbour. In the Santa Teresa building there is an exhibition room where the public finds out about the natural and cultural heritage in the northernmost territory of the island of Minorca.

Shanna Diederichs and Shirley Powell

Shanna Diederichs is the supervisory archaeologist for the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Basketmaker Communities Project. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her past job experience includes work with Mesa Verde National Park; Aztec Ruins National Monument; Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants in Cortez, Colorado; and the Animas–La Plata Project near Durango, Colorado.

Before coming to Crow Canyon in early 2011, Shanna joined a group working at the ancient city of Abydos in Egypt—part of an ongoing joint effort by New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square broke out at that time, and the group’s work was cut short.

Dr. Shirley Powell is currently the Vice President of Programs at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego, and her master's and Ph.D. from Arizona State University—all in anthropology. Between 1978 and 1987 she served as principal investigator and director of the Black Mesa Archaeological Project—one of the largest and longest-running archaeological projects conducted in the United States. She was also a professor in the department of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, and a resident scholar at the School of American Research, Santa Fe. She has held positions as principal investigator, director, consultant, or coordinator for several archaeological firms and projects. She has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous books, technical reports, chapters in technical reports, and book reviews and has presented at 30 regional and national professional meetings. 

In the public service arena, she has served as the development and administration manager for the Montezuma Land Conservancy in Montezuma County, Colorado, and has been both mayor and a planning and zoning commission board member for the town of Dolores, Colorado.

Shirley Powell

Dr. Shirley Powell is currently the Vice President of Programs at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego, and her master's and Ph.D. from Arizona State University—all in anthropology. Between 1978 and 1987 she served as principal investigator and director of the Black Mesa Archaeological Project—one of the largest and longest-running archaeological projects conducted in the United States. She was also a professor in the department of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, and a resident scholar at the School of American Research, Santa Fe. She has held positions as principal investigator, director, consultant, or coordinator for several archaeological firms and projects. She has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous books, technical reports, chapters in technical reports, and book reviews and has presented at 30 regional and national professional meetings.

In the public service arena, she has served as the development and administration manager for the Montezuma Land Conservancy in Montezuma County, Colorado, and has been both mayor and a planning and zoning commission board member for the town of Dolores, Colorado.

Shmuel Browns

Shmuel Browns is a licensed tour guide and photographer who lives in Jerusalem. Passionate about Israel, Shmuel takes people throughout the country exposing them to its history, nature and culture. Shmuel blogs about some of his experiences 
at http://israeltours.wordpress.com 

Susan Redford and Donald Redford

Professor Donald Redford is professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and the director of the Mendes expedition.  He is a noted expert in the field of Egyptology and Biblical Studies and is the author of numerous books and articles, including The History of Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Civilization in Context, (Dubuque, 2005), and City of the Ram-man, the Story of Ancient Mendes,(Princeton, 2010).  Prof. Redford has been featured in numerous series and documentaries on A&E and the History Channel.

Dr. Susan Redford is faculty lecturer in the Dept. of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and the director of the Theban Tomb Survey. Dr. Redford is the author of numerous articles and The Harem Conspiracy: The Murder of Ramesses III (Northern Illinois University Press, 2002). She has been featured in documentaries by National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.

Thomas Guderjan and Colleen Hanratty

Dr. Thomas Guderjan is the President of MRP and Director of the Blue Creek project and a faculty member at the University of Texas at Tyler. His book, The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction and Power at Blue Creek, Belize. University of Alabama Press (2007), summarizes much of the work done at Blue Creek.

Colleen Hanratty is a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University. She has worked with the non-profit organization, the Maya Research Program, for the past 16 years. She has conducted archaeological research in the southeastern and southwestern USA, Mexico, Peru and Belize. Her doctoral research is on the collapse and abandonment of Blue Creek, Belize.

William Tarant

William (Bill) Tarant is a sales manager with GE Inspection Technologies.