2020-Present Assistant Professor, Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
2018-2020 Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of New England, Armidale, NSW
2018-Present Research Assistant Professor, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2017-2018 IEMA Postdoctoral Fellow, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2016-2017 Lora Bryning Redford Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2012-2014 Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Education
PhD in Classical Archaeology,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 2010 – July 2016
General exams in Greek Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Greek History
and Roman History completed October 2012; modern language exams in French (April 2011)
and German (March 2013)
Dissertation: “The Queen of Heaven and a Goddess for All the People: Religion, Cultural Evolution,
and Social Development in Iron Age Greece”; Advisor: Ian Morris; Committee Members:
Josiah Ober, Richard P. Martin; External Committee Member: Carolina López-Ruiz (The Ohio State University)
M.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, The University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 2007 – September 2009
Comprehensive exams in Greek Archaeology and Roman Archaeology completed, May 2009
Major research paper: “Religion and Universality: Emporic Cults in the Mediterranean World,
Ninth-Sixth Centuries BCE”; supervisor: Franco De Angelis
Honours B.A. in Archaeology, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, Ontario, September 2001 – August 2005
Focus: Classical Archaeology; graduated with High Distinction
Education (Other)
Certificate in Multimedia and Web Development, University of British Columbia
Continuing Education, Vancouver, BC, March 2014 – April 2016
Visiting Student Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies at
Athens, Athens, Greece, July 2014
Howard Comfort Summer Program in Roman Pottery, American Academy in Rome,
Rome, Italy, June – July 2011
Archaeological Drawing, Hellenic Education and Research Center, Kythera, Greece, July 2007
MEI International Academy, Cedar Mills, Ontario, Spring 2001
Academic Honours, Awards, and Grants
External Awards
IEMA Postdoctoral Fellowship, University at Buffalo, 2017-2018
Lora Bryning Redford Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology, University of Puget Sound, 2016-2017
ACLS/Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2015-2016 ($38 000)
MEI International Academy Scholarship, 2001 ($2000)
University of New England
Early Career Researcher Award for pilot project: “Of Temples and Tomes: Analyzing Trends in Votive Deposition and
Social Change in the Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean (900-500 BCE)”, 2019
Stanford University
Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2015-2016 ($27 000) (declined)
Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Research Workshop Grant, 2011/2012 ($8500)
Department of Classics Mediterranean Travel Grant, Summers 2011, 2015
Humanities and Sciences Fellowship (2010-2012)
The University of British Columbia
UBC Student Leader Recognition, 2009
Faculty of Arts Award, 2008/2009 ($5000)
Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Fellowship, 2008/2009 ($18 000)
Faculty of Arts Grant Supplement Award, 2008 ($4000)
Wilfrid Laurier University
Alumni Gold Medal for the Faculty of Arts, for highest
academic standing in the Faculty of Arts graduating class at Fall Convocation, 2005
Banner Carrier for the Faculty of Arts, Fall Convocation, 2005
Alvin J. Pauli Scholarship in Archaeology (highest GPA in third-year archaeology), 2004 ($550)
Faculty Association Scholarship (academic achievement and community service), 2003 ($500)
Dean’s Honour Roll, 2002, 2003, 2004
Faculty of Arts Bursary (11.0-12.0 GPA on 12 point scale), 2002, 2003, 2004 ($1500 per annum)
Entrance Scholarship, 2001 ($2000)
Publications
Books
(In Preparation) Daniels, M. The Queen of Heaven and a Goddess for All the People: Models of Kingship
between Greece and the Near East. (monograph project)
(Under revision), Blakely, S. and M. Daniels (eds.) Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods:
Conversations in Theory and Method. SAMR Series. Atlanta: Lockwood Press. (edited volume)
(Under revision), Daniels, M. (ed.) Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History. IEMA
Distinguished Monograph Series. Albany: SUNY-Press. (edited volume)
Daniels, M. 2018. “Aphrodite Pandemos at Naukratis Revisited: The Goddess and Her Civic Function in the
Context of an Archaic Emporion.” Journal of Greek Archaeology 3: 165-201.
Daniels, M. 2017. “Hercules and Symbolic Power in Roman Hispania: Appropriating a Globalized
Discourse.” In Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Roman Appropriation,
edited by C. MacDonald, M. Loar, and D. Padilla-Peralta, 377-417. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Higgins, S. C. and M. Daniels. 2015. “Alternative Academics: Moving Beyond the Academy.”
Forum: Investigating the Future, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 3.3: 238-246.
(Revised and Resubmitted) Daniels, M. “The Queen of Heaven in Iron Age Greece: Analyzing Religious Ideology and
Symbolism on Multiple Scales.” In Untangling the Intangible: Reconstructing Ideologies, Beliefs, and
Religion in the Past, edited by K. MacFarland and E. Johannesson. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
(Under Review) Daniels, M. “Heracles and Melqart.” (for submission to The Oxford Handbook to Heracles, edited by
D. Ogden and under contract with Oxford University Press)
(Under Revision) Daniels, M. “'Orientalizing' Networks and the Nude Standing Female: Synchronic and
Diachronic Dimensions of Ideology Transfer.” (for submission to Strong Ties: Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past,
edited by A. Collar and under contract with Brill)
(Under Revision) Daniels, M. "Movement as a Constant? Envisioning a Migration-Centered Worldview of Human History." (for
Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History, edited by M. Daniels and under contract with SUNY-Press
IEMA Distinguished Monograph Series)
(Revised and Resubmited) Kaufman, B., H. Barnard, A. Drine, R. Khedher, A. Farahani, S. Ben-Tahar, E. Jerray, B. N.
Damiata, M. Daniels, and T. Fenn. “Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record:
Survey and Excavations at the Carthaginian/Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania (Tunisia).”
(at Current Anthropology)
(Under Revision) Daniels, M. "Cross-Cultural Religion in the Iron Age Mediterranean: Institutional and Evolutionary Perspectives."
(for submission to Data Sciene, Human Science, and Ancient Gods: Conversations in Theory and Method, edited by S. Blakely
and M. Daniels and under contract with Lockwood Press)
(Under Review) Daniels, M. “Divinizing Death at the Sanctuary of Orthia: Reconsidering a Funerary Scene on an
Ivory Plaque.” (article length manuscript)
Teaching Experience (University Level)
Instructor,
“The Archaeology of Democracy? Public Monuments, Social Power, and the Greek City-State in the Archaic and Classical Periods",
Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia,
Winter Session Term 2, 2021 (graduate seminar)
Instructor,
“Greek Art and Architecture",
Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia,
Winter Session Term 2, 2021 (upper level undergraduate course)
Instructor,
“Temples, Tombs, and Tyrants: The Archaeology of the Middle East, Greece, and Rome",
Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia,
Winter Session Term 1, 2020 (introductory undergraduate course)
Instructor,
“A History of Power: States and Empires in the Ancient World", Classics and Ancient History, University of New England,
Trimester 2, 2020 (designed, but did not teach, upper-level undergraduate/graduate online course)
Instructor,
“Advanced Greek Prose: Herodotus and Thucydides”, Classics and Ancient History,
University of New England, Trimester 2, 2019
Instructor,
“Intermediate Greek: Homer's Iliad and Xenophon's Anabasis”, Classics and Ancient History,
University of New England, Trimester 2, 2018, 2019
Instructor,
“Introduction to the Ancient Near East", Classics and Ancient History, University of New England,
Trimester 3, 2018, 2019 (introductory undergraduate course)
Instructor,
“Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids", Classics and Ancient History, University of New England,
Trimester 2, 2019 (upper-level undergraduate and graduate course)
Instructor,
“New Kingdom Egypt”,
Classics and Ancient History, University of New England, Trimester 2, 2018 (upper-level undergraduate and graduate)
Co-Instructor, (through mentored teaching assistantship) with Michael Shanks and Thea De Armond:
"Introduction to the Archaeology of Greece", Department of Classics,
Stanford University, September-December 2014
Grammar Instructor in Ancient Greek, Department of Classics,
Stanford University, September-December 2013
Co-Instructor and Writing Tutor for Ian Morris: "Majors Seminar",
Department of Classics, Stanford University, April-June 2013 (capstone undergraduate seminar)
Teaching Assistant for Ian Morris: "The Greeks", Department of
Classics, Stanford University, January-March 2013
Teaching Assistant for Walter Scheidel: "The Romans", Department of Classics,
Stanford University, March-June 2012
Teaching Assistant for Josiah Ober "The Origins of Political Thought",
Department of Classics, Stanford University, January-March 2012
Teaching Assistant for Ronald Ross: "Introduction to Archaeological Methods
and Theories", Department of Archaeology
and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, September 2004 – April 2005
Marker for Gerald Schaus: "Greek Civilization"
and "Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology", Department of Archaeology
and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, September-December 2004
Student Supervision
“The Art of Physical Exaggeration in Ptolemaic Iconography” (Master’s Thesis), 2019-2020
“Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasty Egypt and the Pentapolis:
The extent of Sherden and Peleset/Philistine migration, re-settlement and integration during the Ramesside”
(Master’s research paper), 2019-2020
“Athena: Gender and Influence in Archaic and Classical Greek Mythology”
(Honours Undergraduate Thesis), 2019-2020
Field Schools
Supervisor, archaeological field school, Lecheion Harbours Settlement Land Project, Corinth, Greece
Supervisor, archaeological field school, Zita Project, Zarzis, Tunisia
Teaching Experience (Other)
English Tutor, Japan Advertising Ltd.,
Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2009 – May 2010
Volunteer English Teacher, Volunteers for Peace – Vietnam,
SOS Children’s Village, Viet Tri, Phu Tho Province, Vietnam, June 2007
Oral English Teacher, Long Cheng Junior Middle School,
Shenzhen Education Bureau, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province,
People’s Republic of China, September 2006 – June 2007
Professional Development
"Cultural Connections Workshop", University of New England, May 2019
"Visual Culture Workshop”, University of Puget Sound, September 29th-30th 2016
“Teaching for Classicists”, Course through Department of Classics,
Stanford University , Spring 2013
Workshops on classroom management and
discussion leading, Center for Teaching and Learning,
Stanford University, Winter 2013
“Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”, Course through the Center for
Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Fall 2012
World History Pedagogy Workshop, History Department, Stanford University, Spring 2012
Paid Professional Experience
Database Assistant, for Dr. Josiah Ober,
Department of Classics, Stanford University, September-December 2012
Assisted in editing database for digitization of the Oxford Classical Dictionary
Editorial Assistant, for Dr. Franco De Angelis, Department of
Classical and Near Eastern Studies, The University of British
Columbia, January-May 2010
Edited a collection of scholarly papers for the
edited volume: “Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity: Exploring their limits”
Program Coordinator, The Global Student Speakers’ Bureau,
Office of the Associate Vice President –International; Faculty of Education;
University of British Columbia, September 2008 - April 2009
Coordinated a roster of student speakers; promoted organization to
various campus groups; organized and facilitated public speaking sessions for
members; liaised with campus and community groups for students to present their
international experiences to both on- and off-campus audiences
Archaeologist, Parks Canada Archaeological Services:
National Parks and Native Sites,, Cornwall, Ontario, Summers 2003, 2004;
September 2005 - July 2006
Archaeological excavations and mitigation at various national parks
and national historic sites under the National Parks and Native Sites program
Artifact processing, cataloguing and database entry at the Ontario Service Centre in Cornwall
Research Assistant, for Dr. Judith Fletcher, Department
of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University , September 2004-August 2005
“Oaths and Perjury in Classical Greek Poetry and Drama”: duties included editing and formatting
articles, summarizing articles and chapters, and performing literature searches
Digital Humanities Projects
Peopling the Past: open-access educational
sources featuring podcasts, videocasts, and blogs
“Of Temples and Tomes: Analyzing Trends in Votive Deposition and Social Change in the Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean (900-500 BCE)”,
pilot project funded by School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of New England to update catalogue of nude
female figurines and develop best practices in data curation, analysis, and visualization of votive trends
“The Archaeology of Power: States and Empires in the Mediterranean and Near East in the First Millennium BCE”,
Digital humanities class project at the University of Puget Sound involving creation of a
website featuring a
series of digital essays and multimedia tools created by students
Database assistant for Centuries Database Project, 2012
Contributor to Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, 2011
University/Foundation Service
Program Committee Member Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, 2020-present
Research Integrity Advisor University of New England, 2020
HUMS508 (Master’s Thesis) Coordinator for School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,
University of New England, 2019-2020
External Reviewer for Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 2019
External Reviewer for PLoS ONE, 2017-2020
Coordinator for student professionalization workshops Department of Classics,
SUNY-Buffalo, 2018
Proposal Writer for targeted area of inquiry: “Resilient Societies”,
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 2015
Foundation
Co-Coordinator, for student colloquia
Department of Classics, Stanford University, October 2012 - December 2013
Organized workshops for students, including professionalization
workshops and colloquia for students to present works-in-progress
Co-coordinator for student recruitment,
Department of Classics, Stanford University,
February 2011
Liaised between prospective and current students, staff and faculty
in the Department of Classics; organized lodging, transportation and social
activities for prospective students
Field and Laboratory Experience
Current Projects:
The Stymphalos Project, Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinthia and the Canadian Institute in Greece
, Director: E. Hector Williams;
Stymfalia, Greece, 2019-Present
Study and publication of Hellenistic pottery from the Acropolis Sanctuary
Zita Project, UCLA and the Institut National du Patrimoine,
Directors: Brett Kaufmann and Ali Drine; Zarzis, Tunisia, 2013-Present
Excavations of Neo-Punic tophet and Roman forum
Reading of pottery from systematic survey and excavations
Supervision of students (2014)
Past Projects:
Laboratory Work:
Burgaz Harbours Project, METU University, Stanford University and Brock University
, Directors: Numan Tuna, Elizabeth Greene, and Justin Leidwanger;
Datça, Turkey, 2013-Present
Managed incoming finds from underwater excavations and supervised students in artifact sorting,
drawing, photography, cataloguing and database entry
Completed more fine-grained analysis of local pottery fabrics (Archaic through to Late Roman)
through visual analysis and XRF imaging; sorted incoming pottery finds into fabric groups for
quantification
Howard Comfort Summer Program in Roman Pottery, American Academy in Rome,
Director: Archer Martin; Rome, Italy, June-July 2011
Involved in studying an assemblage from the Domus Tiberiana on the Palatine Hill
in Rome for publication, including form and fabric identification of ceramics
Involved in studying and cataloguing late Bronze Age and early Iron Age
pottery (roughly 12th-8th centuries BCE) from Xeropolis selected for eventual publication,
as well as organization of artifact collections
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, Ontario, September-April 2003
Laboratory work involving washing and drawing of pottery sherds from Tell Jawa, Jordan
Field Excavation:
Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project, University of California – Long Beach, Director:
Paul Scotton, Corinth, Greece
Area supervisor for archaeological field school
Excavations at Sant’Omobono, Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali of the
Comune di Roma, the Università della Calabria and the University of Michigan,
Directors: Nicola Terrenato and Paolo Brocato; Rome, Italy, June-July 2012
Excavations at Heraclea Lyncestis, The Balkan Heritage Foundation and the New Bulgarian University
, Director: Angela Pencheva; Bitola, Macedonia, July 2011
Athenian Agora Excavations, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
Director: John McK. Camp II; Athens, Greece, June-July 2008, 2010
Chousti Cave Excavations, 26th Ephorate of Antiquities, the Society for
Kytheran Studies and the Hellenic Education and Research Center,
Director: Aris Tsaravopoulos; Diakofti, Kythera, Greece, July 2007
Parks Canada, Archaeological Services, National Parks and Native Sites,
Director: Brian Ross; Cornwall, Ontario, Summers 2003 and 2004, 2005 – 2006
Excavations at Healy Falls (June 2003 and 2004), Camp Kitchikewana (September 2005),
Navy Island National Historic Site (October 2005) and Point Pelee National Park (November 2005)
Artifact processing, cataloguing, database entry
Azoria Excavations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens,
Director: Donald C. Haggis; Kavousi, Crete, Greece, May-July 2005
Field school student: participated in excavation, flotation,
residue sorting, basic pottery conservation
The Cocoon Site Excavations, Wilfrid Laurier University and the Bermuda Maritime Museum,
Director: John Triggs; Warwick Parish, Bermuda, April-May 2005
Port Royal Golf Course Excavations, Wilfrid Laurier University and the Bermuda Maritime Museum,
Director: John Triggs; Somerset, Bermuda, February 2005
Panels/Workshops/Conferences Organized
Co-organized with Nadya Rizk (School of Education): “Interdisciplinarity and Pluralistic Pedagogies in
Teaching and Research,” panel organized for Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Education
Research Week, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, November 2019
"Homo Migrans: Modelling Mobility and Migration in Human History,” conference organized at
the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, April 2018
Co-organized with Sandra Blakely: “Gods in Our Machines? Critical Approaches to Big Data and Ancient
Religion,” AIA Panel presented at the 119th
Archaeological Institute of America Annual and Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting,
Boston, MA, January 2018
Co-organized with Sandra Blakely: “God the Anthropologist: Text, Material and Theory in the
Study of Ancient Religion,” presented as a joint AIA/SCS panel at the 118th Archaeological Institute of
America and Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON January 2017
“Bigger Histories: Indigenous Archaeology and Decolonizing Perspectives in Education,” Symposium
organized in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples Day and International Archaeology Day at the University of
Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, October 2016
Co-organized with Maryl Gensheimer and Sabrina Higgins: “Thinking Outside the Box: Alternative Careers within
Academia,” 116th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting and the
Student Affairs Interest Group, New Orleans, LA, January 2015
Co-organized with Thea De Armond, Stanford University: “Interpreting the Deep Past: The Convergence of
Material Remains, Myth and Memory,” Theoretical Archaeology Group, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2014
Co-organized with Cherkea Howery and Lynn Meskell, Stanford University: “Empires and Globalization: Archaeology and Its Relation to Local and Global Forces,” year-long workshop series,
Stanford Archaeology Center and the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University,
September 2011 – June 2012
Responsible for designing grant proposal outlining the major themes and purposes of the Workshop as
well as the proposed budget and a list of potential speakers; inviting speakers to participate in the
Workshop; liaising between invited speakers, Archaeology Center staff and the larger academic community;
preparing weekly Workshops; administration of budget, Workshop attendance and speaker schedules
Conference Presentations
“Migration as an Inroad to Heterodoxy in Classics, Past and Present,”
Australasian Society for Classical Studies 40th Annual Conference, Dunedin, NZ 2020
Invited paper: “Myth, Memory, and Migration: Melqart as a Model for Colonization in the Western Mediterranean,”
121st Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2020
“Migration as an Inroad to Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in the Humanities,” Faculty of Humanities,
Arts, Social Science, and Education Research Week, UNE, Armidale, NSW
“Death and Divinity at Kommos: Reconsidering a Prothesis Scene from the Iron Age Sanctuary,”
Australasian Society for Classical Studies 40th Annual Conference, Armidale, NSW 2019
“Death and Divinity at Kommos: Reinterpreting a Prothesis Scene on an Incised Cup from the Iron Age
Sanctuary,” 120th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting,
San Diego, CA 2019
“Movement as a Constant in Human History: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Migration,”
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Symposium, UNE, Armidale, NSW 2018
"Migration as a Constant in Human History," Homo Migrans: Modelling Mobility and Migration in Human History,
SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 2018
“The Gods of Kommos: Reconsidering the Deities of the Tripillar Shrine and their Cross-
Cultural Meanings in the Iron Age,” 119th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting,
Boston, MA 2018
Co-authored with J. Leidwanger, E. S. Greene, and N. Tuna: “By Land and by Sea:
Investigating Economic Integration along the Datça Peninsula, Southwest Turkey,” International
Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period, Kaštela, Croatia 2017
Invited paper: co-authored with J. Leidwanger, E. S. Greene, and N. Tuna: “A Finer View
of Regional Socio-Political and Economic Change in the Southeast Aegean: Ceramic Production along the
Datça Peninsula,” Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC 2017
“To Slay the Slain? (Re)Analyzing a Funerary Scene on an Ivory Plaque form the
Sanctuary of Orthia at Sparta,” 118th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON 2017
Invited paper: “Investigating Religion in the Archaeological Record: The Case of Kommos,”
Religion, Ritual, Conflict, and Cooperation: Archaeological and Historical
Perspectives, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 2016
“Religious Cults and Archaic Emporia: Cross-Cultural Interaction and Religious Change through
Naukratis,” France-Stanford Emerging Scholarship Conference, Stanford, CA, January 2016
Invited paper: “Religious Cults and Archaic Emporia: Cross-Cultural Interaction and Religious Change
through Naukratis,” 117th Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 2016
“Religion, Cultural Evolution, and Axial Age Transitions: Investigating the Queen of Heaven in the Iron
Age Mediterranean,” Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2015
“The Queen of Heaven and a Goddess for All the People: Aphrodite and Her Political and Economic Significance in Naukratis,” Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, May 2015.
Invited paper: “The Queen of Heaven in Iron Age Greece: Analyzing Religious Ideology and Symbolism on Multiple Scales,”
Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, April 2015
“Cultural Heritage in Tunisia Before and After the Revolution: The Challenges and Opportunities of a Pluralistic Past,”
Archaeology Day, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 2015
Co-authored with Kilian Mallon, İlhan Sakarya, Justin Leidwanger, and Elizabeth S. Greene: “Regional
Production and Maritime Exchange in the Southeast Aegean: Ceramic Analysis at Burgaz, Turkey,”
American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA, November 2014
Discussant, “Interpreting the Deep Past: The Convergence of Material Remains, Myth and Memory,”
Theoretical Archaeology Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2014
“Annexing a Shared Past: Roman Appropriations of Hercules-Melqart in the Conquest of Hispania,” Cargo Culture:
Literary and Material Appropriative Practices in Rome, Department of Classics, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, March 2014
“Systems of Symbolic Power: Hercules-Melqart in the Western Mediterranean,” Scalar Inquiries in Archaeology,
Third Annual UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 2013
“A Goddess for All the People: The Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Naukratis,” 114th Archaeological Institute of America
Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 2013
“Religion as an Institution and its Place in Economic Growth: A Model from the New Institutional Economics,”
Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2012
“Sacred Exchange: The Function of Trade and the Divine in the Growth of Ancient Mediterranean Cities,” Urban
Dreams and Realities: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the City in Ancient Cultures, Department of History
and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, October 2011
“A Goddess for All the People: The Temple of Aphrodite at Naukratis,” Classical Association of the Pacific
Northwest-Classical Association of the Canadian West Joint Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2010
“The Cultural Legacy of the Greeks in Central Asia,” University of British Columbia Archaeology Day, Vancouver,
British Columbia, March 2008
Invited Talks, Lectures, and Colloquia
“Mothers, prostitutes, or sex goddesses? Rethinking Naked Female Figurines in Iron Age Mediterranean
Sanctuaries,” School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Seminar, Armidale, NSW, July 2019
“The Gods of Kommos: Religion, Commerce, and Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Iron
Age Mediterranean,” AIA Niagara Peninsula Chapter, St. Catharines, ON, March 2018
“From East to West and Back Again: The Phoenicians and Ancient Mediterranean History,” NYS
Archaeological Society Houghton Chapter, Buffalo, NY, November 2017
“Resurrecting the Dying God in Archaic Greece: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of a Funerary Scene from the
Sanctuary of Orthia at Sparta,” Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, SUNY-Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY, October 2017
“The Dying God between East and West: Reanalyzing a Funerary Scene from the Sanctuary of Orthia at
Sparta,” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, September 2017
“The Legacies of the Phoenicians: Tunisia, World Heritage, and Classroom Pedagogies,” The
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, April 2017
(Forthcoming) “Bigger Histories: The Phoenicians and the Formation of the Mediterranean World,” AIA
Portland Society, Portland, OR, March 2017
(“The Dying and Rising God: Religion and Power in Sparta,” The University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, WA, November 2016
“Aphrodite in the Iron Age Mediterranean: Long-term History and Cultural Evolution between
Greece and the Near East,” Stanford Archaeology Center Lunch Club, Stanford, CA, April 2016
“The Queen of Heaven in Iron Age Greece: Investigating Religion and Ideology in the Eastern
Mediterranean,” Campion College, University of Regina, Regina, SK, February 2016
“Experiencing Empire: Thinking About the Roman Provinces,” Lecture for field school students at the Zita Project,
Zarzis, Tunisia, August 2014
“Trade, Exchange and Sacred Spaces: Religion and Economy in Archaic Rome,” Presentation to Stanford
Archaeology Center Donors, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford, CA, November 2012
“Greek Culture in Central Asia in the Hellenistic Period,” Guest speaker for CLST 2230: Alexander and the
Hellenistic World, Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 2010
“The Legacies of Conquest? Greek Culture in Central Asia following the Campaigns of Alexander the Great,” Pharos:
Canadian-Hellenic Cultural Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2009
“China’s Tiger-Leaping Gorge,” Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden Society Annual General Meeting, Vancouver,
British Columbia, March 2009
“Which Past Do We Study? A Brief Historiography of Classical Archaeology,” Member Speaker Series, Green
College, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 2009
“Tiger-Leaping Gorge: International Controversy,” (Presenter and Panel Discussant) Emerging Economies Event,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 2009
“Listen to Both Sides and You Will Be Enlightened: Traveling, Teaching and Learning in China,” Society for
Intercultural Education, Training and Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2008
Volunteer grant and policy writer, Sound Outreach, Tacoma, WA, 2017
“The Meaning of the Past,” Matters of the Mind Symposium, University of Ontario Institute of
Technology, June 2013
Keynote speaker at symposium for elementary school students who took part in a year-long archaeology enrichment program
Pianist and Translator, Stanford Classics in Theater (SCIT), Stanford University,
Spring 2011, 2012, 2013
Aid in translation, adaptation and musical accompaniment of Classical Greek plays:
Aristophanes’ Wasps (2011), Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen (2012), Euripides’ Cyclops (2013) and
Plautus’ Casina (2014)
“The Athenian Agora: Archaeology and History,” Father Leo J. Austin Catholic Secondary School,
December 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Presentation to Grade 12 Archaeology and Native Studies Class on the Athenian Agora
Excavations, with a focus on the issues of combining ancient texts with archaeology
Volunteer, The Big Dig, Stanford University, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Assisted in teaching students from various Santa Clara County elementary schools
about archaeological excavation and laboratory work at a mock excavation site on Stanford campus
Volunteer, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver,
British Columbia, January 2008 – September 2009
Assisted in running Chinese New Year activities for various school groups;
also assisted with the summer concert series and various other cultural events
Volunteer, Camp Kitchikewana, Parks Canada, Archaeological Services, National Parks and Native Sites,
Director: Brian Ross, Georgian Bay Islands National Park, Ontario, September 2005
Participated in excavations and assisted with the Sixth Annual Aboriginal Youth Week
Related Skills
Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel);
ArcGIS; Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Muse; HTML5 (basic); CSS (basic); JavaScript (basic); Python (basic);
R (basic); XRF instrument and software
Trained in basic human osteology
Trained in basic geophysical techniques in archaeology
Trained in archaeological drawing
Languages
English (first language)
French (reading proficiency and intermediate speaking)
Mandarin (basic: one year study in China)
German (reading); Italian (reading); Spanish (reading)
Ancient Greek (reading); Latin (reading)
Professional Affiliations
Archaeological Institute of America (2007- );
Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2014- ); Classical Association of Canada (2015- );
Society for Classical Studies (2016-); Australasian Society for Classical Studies (2019-)
References
Dr. Franco De Angelis
Associate Professor of Greek History and Archaeology
Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
angelis@ubc.ca
Dr. Ian Morris
Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Professor of History
Department of Classics, Stanford University
imorris@stanford.edu
Dr. Richard P. Martin
Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics
Department of Classics, Stanford University
rpmartin@stanford.edu
Dr. Josiah Ober
Professor of Classics, Professor and Chair of Political Science
Department of Classics, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
jober@stanford.edu
Dr. Justin Leidwanger
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics, Stanford University
jleidwa@stanford.edu
Dr. Eric Orlin
Professor of Classics
Department of Classics, University of Puget Sound
eorlin@pugetsound.edu
Dr. Peter Biehl
Professor of Anthropology; Associate Dean for International Education and Enrolment
Department of Anthropology and IEMA, SUNY-Buffalo
pbiehl@buffalo.edu