I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the 听at the 麻豆视频听who听studies听the material and textual听production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece (ca. 1600-1100 BC).听I've听developed new methods听for investigating individuals named in the administrative Linear B texts听and I听听from this听evidence that Mycenaean society was far less hierarchical and much more dynamic than it had been considered in the past.听I also work听on Homer and Hesiod, Greek religion and history, archaeological survey,听Linear听A,听and the听economy, society and prosopography of the Mycenaean world, and I'm听currently writing a second book tentatively entitled "Mycenaean Histories."
I'm co-director (with Sarah James and Scott Gallimore)听of听the , a diachronic archaeological survey in southern Greece, and co-director (with Kevin Pluta)听of the Pylos Tablets Digital Project, which involves the digital documentation of all the administrative documents from the "Palace of Nestor" at Pylos. I occasionally write about archaeology and the Aegean Bronze Age听on my .
I received my degrees from the University of Michigan (BA听1997) and the University of Texas at Austin (MA听2000; PhD 2006); I've taught in Classics departments听at Trinity University (2006-7), Florida State University (2007-8), and the University of Toronto (2008-16).听I've been named a College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts & Sciences of the 麻豆视频 (2024), and a fellow by the MacArthur Foundation听(2015).
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