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Azoria Project Senior Staff

Donald C. Haggis, project director; Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics and Curriculum in Archaeology; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Margaret S. Mook, field director and pottery specialist; Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Iowa State University.

C. Margaret Scarry, palaeoethnobotanist; Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology; and Chair, Curriculum in Archaeology; Director Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rodney D. Fitzsimons, architect; Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University.

Dr. Flint Dibble, zooarchaeologist; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion at Cardiff University; former Wiener Laboratory Post-Doctoral Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Dr. Christina Tsoraki, ground-stone tool specialist; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Beyond the Three Age System Project, Archaeology and History, University of Leicester.

Dr. Androniki Oikonomaki, epigraphist; Laboratory Teaching Staff, The Epigraphy and Papyrology Laboratory (EREP), Faculty of Philosophy, School of Philology, Department of Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Maria Ntinou, anthracology specialist (charcoal analysis); Associate Professor, Archaeology, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki.

Sevasti Triantaphyllou, biological anthropologist; Associate Professor, Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Sotiria Kiorpe, biological anthropologist; PhD candidate, Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (MSc in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology, University of Leiden).

Dr. Dimitris Michailidis, zooarchaeologist, small faunal (bird) specialist; Laboratory Coordinator, The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Dr. Katerina Papayiannis, zooarchaeologist, small faunal specialist; Wiener Laboratory Programmatic Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-2024, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Dr. Dimitra Mylona, zooarchaeologist; marine faunal specialist; Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete.

Dr. Melissa Eaby, assistant director and small-finds specialist; researcher, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete.

Andrew Cabaniss, GIS specialist; PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology, The Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA), University of Michigan.

Dr. Roger Doonan, metallurgy specialist; Senior Lecturer, and Programme Director MA Cultural Materials, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.

Tristan Carter, lithics specialist; Professor, Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University.

Manolis I. Stefanakis, numismatist; Professor in Classical Archaeology and Numismatics, Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes.

Dr. Vasiliki Stefanaki, numismatist; Numismatic Museum of Athens.

Stephania N. Chlouveraki, chief conservator; Assistant Professor, University of West Attica, Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art; former Director of the W.D.E. Coulson Conservation Laboratory, INSTAP Study Center for East Crete.

Manolis Kasotakis, excavation foreman, conservator; Kavousi, Crete.

Lynn M. Snyder, zooarchaeologist (2002-2012); Research Associate (emerita), Anthropology Division of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Maria Liston, biological anthropologist (2002-2007); Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Waterloo.

William C. West III, epigraphist (2002-2012); Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Trench supervisors 2013-2017

Cicek Beeby, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bailey Benson, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emma Buckingham, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Andrew Cabaniss, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA), University of Michigan.

Sophie Cushman, Department of Classics (classical archaeology program), University of California, Berkeley.

Eric Driscoll, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley.

Nikos Gkiokas, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University.

Alex Griffin, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sarah Hilker, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Catharine Judson, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Julia Juhasz, Department of Classics, Florida State University.

Kristen Mann, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney.

Eirini Paizi, BA Heidelberg, classical archaeology and ancient history.

Heidi Senn, Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Tim Shea, Departments of Classical Studies/Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University.

Olivier Vanwalleghem, Greek History and Archaeology, University Bordeaux.

Rebecca Worsham, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Technical and Support Staff 2013-2017

Erin Galligan, Pottery assistant and pottery shed manager, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Erin Stevens Nelson, Palaeoethnobotany assistant, Department of Anthropology; Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC.

Ashley Peles, Palaeoethnobotany assistant. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology; Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC.

Lydia Thompson, site photographer, Curriculum in Archaeology, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jessica Feito, site photographer and registrar, Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

Mary Beth Fitts, ceramics assistant and pottery shed manager, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gabrielle C. Purcell, archaeobotany assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Konstantinos Chalikias, illustrator/artist, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Athens.

Rosemarie Teresa Blewitt, archaeobotany assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jonida Martini, Registrar;University of Cincinnati (UC), Department of Classics.

Fani Skivalida, Archaeological Illustrator and Artist (MA in Byzantine Studies, University of Crete), Research Assistant, National Hellenic Research Foundation.