PhD Students

Kimiko Adler | kja326@nyu.edu | Department of Classics

Interests: Archaeology of the Roman Near East and religious communities (Judaism, cult of Isis, and Mithraism) under Roman rule

Technical Skills: Numismatics and archaeological illustration

Projects: Agora Valley Project (Morgantina, Sicily)

Narges Bayani | nb1592@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Archaeology of Bronze Age Iran and Central Asia

Technical Skills: Archeometallurgy; GIS; 3D modeling and visualization; ceramic petrography

Projects: Kimirek-Kum-1

Lylaah L. Bhalerao | llb6983@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world; interconnections between the Mediterranean, Africa and India in the late first millennium BCE-early first millennium CE; race in antiquity; museology; object-based pedagogy

Technical Skills: Museology (curating, label writing, catalogue editing; in-gallery digitization), cataloguing, object handling

Allyson Blanck | ab10542@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Ancient Medicine, Surgery and Wound Care, Bioarcheology, Death and Burial, Trauma

Technical Skills: Skeletal Analysis, Paleopathology

Projects: Ancient Agora of Athens – ASCSA (Excavator / Assistant)

Quinn R. Bolte | qrb200@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Late antique art and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean; (production, exchange, and reception of portable objects; depictions of gender; materiality/agency theories; spatial experience and connections between objects and architecture)

Technical Skills: material analysis; archival excavation research; digital data analytics; object photography; multi-elemental analyses; finds storage and conservation.

Projects: Aphrodisias Excavations (Archaeologist and Researcher, Inventory Manager)

Sara Borsodi | sab9982@nyu.edu | Department of Anthropology

Interests: Archaeological Anthropology; Paleolithic Archaeology, Use-wear, stone tools, experimental archaeology

Technical skills: Zeiss Axio Zoom V.16 Microscope, Total Station

Projects: Tribo-AI project with Radu Iovita

Shiro Burnette | seb9289@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Mediterranean archaeology, domestic architecture, cross-cultural exchange, collecting, history of museums

Technical skills: Photogrammetry

Projects: Selinunte Archaeological Project | Quirinal Project

Mariana Castro | mc7170@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Arid Lands Archaeology; West Asian Antiquity; Material Culture Studies; Heritage and International Development

Technical Skills: Excavation and survey techniques (GIS; Photogrammetry; 3D modelling; Database management; Image and Video Editing; Scientific Drawing)

Projects: Turquoise Mining and Exchange in Pre-Modern Central Asia (Field Director) | Berenike: Roman Port on the Red Sea Coast (Archaeologist) | Expanding the Ancient World: K-12 Professional Development (Coordinator) | Kimerik-Kum 1, Uzbekistan (Archaeologist).

Adela Cebeiro | ac9815@nyu.edu | Department of Anthropology

Interests: Primate archaeology, primate stone tool use, Palaeolithic archaeology, primate behavioral ecology, anatomical and cognitive diversity of early hominins

Technical skills: Lithic analysis, Photoshop, ImageJ, Morphometrics, Photogrammetry, 3D scanning

Projects: Tool use in brown capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) at a free-roaming primate sanctuary in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa

Braden Cordivari | bwc2354@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: archaeometallurgy, craft production, Iron Age Anatolia/Mediterranean

Technical Skills: inorganic materials analysis (pXRF, SEM-EDS, FTIR, metallography, ceramic petrography)

Projects: Gordion Archaeological Project | Bays of East Attica Regional Survey

Claire Davis | mcd9444@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Roman art and archaeology, domestic decoration, materiality and experiential analysis

Technical Skills: Photogrammetry

Projects: Aphrodisias Excavations (Student Excavator) | Quirinal Project (Team member)

Megan Gatton | mbg408@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Early Iron Age and Archaic Mediterranean world; archaeology of Greek sacred contexts; ancient craft traditions and communities of practice; uses of ancient culture in modern constructions of race; zooarchaeology and behavioral ecology

Technical Skills: Zooarchaeology, Worked Bone Analysis

Projects: Selinunte Archaeological Project (Materials Supervisor, Faunal remains and worked bone analysis) | Quirinal Project (Team Member)

Alex Gregory | arg9496@nyu.edu| Department of Anthropology

Interests: Holocene; South Africa; Lithics

Technical Skills: R; Python; Java; GIS; Bayesian Statistics; Photogrammetry

Projects: Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project (MALAPP) | Cango Archaeology Project (CAP)

Kechu Huang | kh2835@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Egyptian archaeology; violence; human-animal relations

Projects: Amheida Project; Chinese Bronze Age Economics Project

Felix Devis Kisena | fdk9607@nyu.edu | Department of Anthropology

Interests: use-wear analysis;Archaeology of Early Human Ecolution

Technical Skills: Microscopes; Stone tools; Experimental Archaeology; Field Archaeology

Hannah Loughlin | hkl304@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Hellenistic and Roman Art & Archaeology; Imperialism & Colonization; Mobility & Making

Projects: Antefixa Project (Research Assistant)

Technical Skills: Photogrammetry; 3D Modeling; 3D Scanning

Ricarda Meisl | rm5284@nyu.edu | Department of Classics

Interests: Greek Art and Archaeology, especially gender and the body in the Classical and Hellenistic period; reception & museum studies

Technical Skills: Archaeological illustration

Vikentiy Parshuto | vap2057@nyu.edu| Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Archaeology and history of Sogdiana and Tukharistan

Technical Skills: photogrammetry; archaeological drawings

Projects: Uzbek-American Expedition in Bukhara (Trench supervisor) | Excavations of Hisorak by the Hermitage team (Trench supervisor)

Rebecca A. Salem | ras1008@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Ancient Greek Architecture

Technical Skills: photogrammetry; GIS; roof tile analysis

Projects: Selinunte Archaeological Project (project architect) | American Excavations Samothrace (project photogrammetrist, roof tile specialist) | Samothrace Hieron Imaging Project (SHIP) (co-director)

Christina Stefanou | cs5887@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: History and Archaeology of Greece and the Mediterranean; cultural change and transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age – Iron Age transition; connectivity, interaction, and mobility in the ancient Mediterranean; Early Iron Age and Archaic Crete; materiality of early alphabetic writing; Digital Humanities.

Technical Skills: photogrammetry, GIS, topographical documentation; architectural and archaeological drawing, 3D modelling and animation

Projects: Lyktos Archaeological Project (Trench supervisor and Digital specialist

Peter Anthony Thompson | pat346@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Archaism in ancient Greek art and architecture; History of archaeology and museums; history and practices of archaeological visualization; archaeology and ancient pasts in popular audiovisual media

Technical Skills: Archaeological photography, data wrangling, pottery quantification and statistical analysis

Projects: Selinunte Archaeological Project (Materials specialist, excavator, pottery quantification, photographic archives)

Jenn Todaro | jt4849@nyu.edu | Institute of Fine Arts

Interests: Ancient Egyptian and Nubian tattooing

Technical Skills: Archaeological Illustration, Graphic Design, Macrobotanical Microscopy

Projects: The Sacred Rice Project

Mi Wang | mw3976@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Chinese archaeology; political economy and technology of early complex societies

Technical Skills: ceramic analysis; network analysis; GIS; 3D modelling

Projects: Director, Neolithic Liangzhu Ceramic Project | Chinese Bronze Age Economics Project

Dylan Winchell | dgw260@nyu.edu |Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Mediterranean Archaeology, Anthropological Archaeology

Technical Skills: pXRF, GIS, Ceramology

Projects: Excavations at Kınık Höyük (Iron Age Ceramic Analyst); Excavations at Lyktos; Archaeology of the Early Iron Age in South-Central Anatolia (Chemical Analyst)

Tianrui Zhu | tz1217@nyu.edu | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interests: Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes; Archaeology of Central Asia and China; Biomolecular Archaeology

Technical Skills: Proteomics (ZooMS, dental calculus, silk); ancient DNA analysis; statistical analysis; programming in Python and R; GIS

Projects: Uzbek-American Expedition in Bukhara; Proteomic analysis of silk at Warinner Lab, Harvard