Curriculum Vitae
Positions Held
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2022 - present
2021 - 2022 2016 - present 2016 - 2022 2012 - 2016 2011 - 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 - 2011 2005 - 2007 2004 - 2007 |
Lecturer, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
Adjunct, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma President, Western Iberia Archaeology, 501(c)(3) nonprofit Instructor of Classics and Latin, BASIS Tucson North School Doctoral Assistant, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Lausanne Research Assistant to Stanford University Archaeology Laboratory and Oxford University Press Interim Director of Programs, PortAnta Archaeological Research Cooperative Summer Program Instructor, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal Graduate Teaching Associate, University at Buffalo, SUNY Humanities Seminar Assistant, University of Arizona Graduate Assistant in Teaching, University of Arizona |
Education
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2007 - 2014
2007 2004 - 2007 2000 - 2004 |
Ph.D. in Classics – Mediterranean Archaeology, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Dissertation: "Surveillance, Visibility, and the Colonial Encounter in the Early Roman Central Alentejo, Portugal: 100 B.C.E. – 100 C.E." Comprehensive exams:
Howard Comfort FAAR '29 Summer Program in Roman Pottery, American Academy in Rome, Italy M.A. in Classics – Classical Archaeology, University of Arizona Thesis: "Laboring at the Edges of Empire: The Division of Labor in Romano-British Pottery Workshops." B.A. cum laude in Interdisciplinary Studies – Anthropology & History, Hendrix College |
Teaching Experience
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2024 2023 2023 2023 2023 & 2024 2022 2022 & 2023 2022 & 2023 2022 & 2023 2021 & 2024 2021 2020 2020 2019 2019 2017 - present 2016 - present 2015 - 2016 2014 - 2016 2013 - 2016 2013 - 2016 2012 - 2016 2013 - 2015 2013 - 2014 2012 - 2013 2011 - 2012 2010 - 2011 2009 2009 2007 - 2010 2007 2006 2005 2005 2004 & 2006 |
As Primary Instructor:
Introduction to Classical Archaeology, University of Oklahoma (25 students) Archaeologies of Ancient Espionage, University of Oklahoma (25 students) Intermediate Latin Prose, University of Oklahoma (27 students) Latin Epigraphy, University of Oklahoma (independent study, 2 students) Beginning Latin II, University of Oklahoma (20 students) The Rise and Fall of Ancient Greece, University of Oklahoma (30 students) Classical Mythology, University of Oklahoma (30 students) Beginning Latin I, University of Oklahoma (20 students) The Roman Forum & Its Monuments, University of Oklahoma (14 students) Classical Art & Archaeology: Bronze Age to Classical Greece, University of Oklahoma (30 students) Classical Art & Archaeology: Hellenistic to Roman, University of Oklahoma (36 students) Non-Western Humanities, University of Central Oklahoma (25 students) The Archaeology of Mobile Hunter-Gatherers, University of Central Oklahoma (independent study) Archaeological Artifact Analysis, University of Central Oklahoma (20 students) Introduction to Archaeology, University of Central Oklahoma (32 students) Lithics Analysis, University of Central Oklahoma (independent study) General Humanities: Renaissance to Modern, University of Central Oklahoma (2 to 5 sections, 28 students per section) General Humanities: Ancient to Medieval, University of Central Oklahoma (3 to 5 sections, 28 students per section) Late Republican Literature (seminar), BASIS Tucson North School (6 students per semester) Introduction to Classical Archaeology, BASIS Tucson North School (25 students per semester) Introductory Latin, BASIS Tucson North School (20 students per semester) Classical Civilizations, BASIS Tucson North School (150 students per semester) Latin Epigraphy (seminar), BASIS Tucson North School School (8 students per semester) Senior Research Projects in Classics, BASIS Tucson North School (individual tutorials) Rhetoric & Logic, Basis Tucson North (90 students per semester) English Composition I & II, Université de Lausanne (20 students per semester) Latin I & Latin II, University at Buffalo (30 students per semester) The Epigraphy of Roman Lusitania, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia de Lisboa (7 students) Introduction to Classical Archaeology, University at Buffalo (17 students) As Teaching Assistant World Civilizations I & World Civilizations II, University at Buffalo (preceptor, 75 students per semester) Ancient Athletics, University of Arizona (500 students) Art History and the Cinema, University of Arizona (500 students) Art and the Classical Ideal, University of Arizona (500 students) America and Antiquity, University of Arizona (200 students) Archaeological Roots of Western Civilization, University of Arizona (280 students) |
Field Experience
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2023 - present
2022 2016 - present 2013 - present 2010 - present 2009 2008 2006 2005 2003 |
Field Director, Romans in Umbria Archaeological Project, Ficulle, Italy
Co-Director, Summer School in Roman Pottery, Lugnano in Teverina, Italy Analysis of Pottery from the DAI-AAR Excavation, Ostia Antica, Italy Co-Director, Santa Susana Archaeological Project, Santa Susana, Portugal Co-Director, Caladinho Archaeological Project, Redondo, Portugal Supervisor, Évoramonte: Axis Mundi Excavation, Évoramonte, Portugal Supervisor, Torre de Palma Cemetery Intervention, Torre de Palma, Portugal Supervisor, Roman Villa of Matança Excavation, Vaiamonte, Portugal Field School Student, Troía Necropolis Excavation, Troía, Portugal Field School Student, Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, Pompeii, Italy |
Internships & Workshops
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2008
2006 2005 |
Metal Artifact Analysis Intern, Roman Villa of Torre de Palma Excavation, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal
Ceramics Analysis Intern, Roman Villa of Torre de Palma Excavation, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal PortAnta Roman Ceramics Workshop, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal |
Publications
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Forthcoming
2023 2022 2019 2017 2016 2016 2015 2014 2011 2009 In prep. In prep. In prep. In prep. In prep. |
“To See and Be Seen: Watch Towers and Signal Towers in the Western Roman Empire,” Sending the Message: Beacons and Military Communications from Antiquity to Early Modern Times. Brill.
“What's Roman about Fish Sauce?: Garum and Garum Containers in Early Roman Portugal,” Sauce and Identity in the Western World, edited by A. Donnelly, B. Forrest, and D. Murphy. Oxford University Press. "Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo," proceedings of the conference The Archaeology of Roman Portugal in its Western Mediterranean Context, with R. Mataloto and K. Sheldon. “'Are You Local?': Imported and Locally Produced Amphorae in Alto Alentejo during the First Century B.C.: Three Case Studies at Soeiros, Rocha da Mina, and Caladinho,” The Ovoid Amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean: Between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire. Archaeopress: Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 13: 376-390, with R. Mataloto and C. Roque. The Archaeology of Roman Surveillance in the Central Alentejo, Portugal. California Classical Studies. Reviews: American Journal of Archaeology, European Journal of Archaeology, and Journal of Roman Archaeology “Amphorae at the Origins of Lusitania: Transport Pottery from Western Hispania Ulterior in Alto Alentejo,” Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Diffusion. Archaeopress: Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 10: 139-52, with R. Mataloto and C. Roque. "Nas Origens da Lusitânia: As Ânforas da Ulterior Ocidental no Interior Alto Alentejano," Cadernos do Endovélico 2: 19-29, with R. Mataloto and C. Roque. “Terra Sigillata Italica from Caladinho (Redondo, Portugal),” Contextos Estratigráficos na Lusitania (do Alto Império à Antiguidade Tardia), edited by J. C. Quaresma & J. A. Marquez: 13-24. Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, with R. Mataloto. "'E dahí desceo a dar-lhe batalha…': a ocupação prerromana e a romanização da região da Serra d’Ossa (Alentejo Central, Portugal),” Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueologia 70: 17-43, with R. Mataloto and C. Roque. "Caladinho 2010: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of a First-Century B.C.E. Tower in Alto Alentejo, Portugal," Chronika 1: 22-6, with R. Mataloto. "The Environmental Effects of Populonia’s Metallurgical Industry: Current Evidence and Future Directions," Etruscan Studies 12: 129-48. "A Child’s Graffito from the Villa of Santa Susana, Portugal," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, with E. Ljung and R. Mataloto. "The Excavation of the Roman Villa of Santa Susana, Redondo, Portugal: 2013 – 2019 Seasons," with E. Ljung and R. Mataloto. (For submission to Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia.) "Pottery from the Capanna Murata Excavations in Ostia Antica," with A. Donnelly, J. Leidwanger, E. Ljung, E. Macauley-Lewis, and A. Martin. (For submission to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.) "Common, Cooking, and Coarse Wares from the DAI-AAR Urbanistic Project at Ostia (1996 – 2001)," with A. Donnelly and A. Martin. Book project: Roman Spycraft: Surveillance, Espionage, and Internal Security in the Ancient World. (Proposed to Routledge Publishing.) |
Field Reports
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2017
2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 |
"Santa Susana Campanha 4/2016: Relatório de Escavação,” report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto and E. Ljung.
"Caladinho Campanha 4/2013: Relatório de Escavação," report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto. "Santa Susana Campanha 3/2015: Relatório de Escavação,” report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto and E. Ljung. "Santa Susana Campanha 2/2014: Relatório de Escavação,” report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto and E. Ljung. "Santa Susana Campanha 1/2013: Relatório de Escavação,” report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto and E. Ljung. "Caladinho Campanha 3/2012: Relatório de Escavação," report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto. "Caladinho Campanha 2/2011: Relatório de Escavação," report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto. "Caladinho Campanha 1/2010: Relatório de Escavação," report for the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural with R. Mataloto. |
Presentations
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Submitted
2024 2023 2023 2022 2022 2020 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 2008 2008 2007 2006 2006 2006 |
“Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Visibility and Invisibility in Roman Colonial Portugal.” Society for American Archaeology, with R. Mataloto and K. Sheldon.
“Recent Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Pian di Mealla, Umbria.” The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with S. Alcock, A Regnier, S. Hammerstedt, and C. Bizzarri. “Romani Ite Domum: becoming Roman in Eastern Central Alentejo in the 1st century BC.” TRAC 2023, University of Exeter, with R. Mataloto, A. Elliott, and C. Roque. “Formation Processes and the Creation of Pompeii: No Such Thing as a City Frozen in Time.” Texas A&M University – Commerce. Invited Speaker. “Surveillance and Signaling Towers in the Roman Empire.” Oklahoma Anthropological Society. Invited Speaker. “Practicing As and Bs in the Brickyard: A Child’s Graffito from Villa Santa Susana, Portugal.” The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with E. Ljung and R. Mataloto “Pottery, Roman Identity, and the Mediterranean Economy in Alentejo, Portugal: Contrasting Assemblages from an Empire’s Hinterland.” Oklahoma Archaeology Conference 2020. University of Tulsa, with R. Mataloto, K. Sheldon, E. Ljung, and C. Haughin. "Coarse and Cooking Ware Pottery from the DAI/AAR Excavations at Ostia Antica: Preliminary Thoughts on Trade and Regionality." The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with A. Donnelly. "Evidence for Transhumance among the Early Roman Towers of the Central Alentejo, Portugal." The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with K. Sheldon and R. Mataloto. "Towers, territory, and the negotiation of a colonial landscape in the early Roman Central Alentejo." The Archaeology of Roman Portugal in its Western Mediterranean Context, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, June 13-15, 2018. "Amphorae, Fish Sauce, and the Colonial Encounter in Roman Portugal." Oklahoma Archaeology Conference 2018, University of Oklahoma. "The Archaeology of Surveillance and Colonization in Early Roman Portugal." Department of Classics, University of Mississippi. Invited Speaker. “A Villa Romana de Santa Susana (Redondo): Balanço das Intervenções 2013-2016.” IX Encontro de Arqueologia do Sudoeste Peninsular, with R. Mataloto and E. Ljung. "An Early Roman Watchtower in Central Lusitania: Colonial Negotiation, Cultural Exchange, and Surveillance Archaeology." Poster. The 12th Roman Archaeology Conference, with R. Mataloto. "The Santa Susana Archaeological Project: Field Report 2013 – 2015." The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with E. Ljung and R. Mataloto. "Roman Watchtowers, Surveillance Systems, and Espionage.” Archaeological Institute of America, Society of Tucson and Southern Arizona, University of Arizona. Invited Speaker. "Surveillance and Espionage in the Roman Empire." TEDx BTNSchool. Public lecture. "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Watchtowers, Surveillance, and the Roman Colonization of Central Portugal." Department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies, Binghamton University. Invited speaker. “Imperial Visions: Surveillance and the Colonial Encounter in the Early Roman Alentejo, Portugal.” Department of Classics, Brock University. Invited speaker. "Excavating Caladinho: A Report on the First Three Seasons of Fieldwork.” The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with R. Mataloto. “Introducing Santa Susana: A New Field Project In the Central Alentejo, Portugal.” The 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with E. Ljung and R. Mataloto. “Aproximação cronológica ao fortim do Caladinho (Redondo): questões estratigráficas e tipológicas.” Contextos Estratigráficos Romanos na Lusitania, with R. Mataloto. "A Consolidação da Presença Romana no Território Centro Alentejano: Fortificação e Povoamento no séc. I a.C." II Reunião Científica as Paisagens da Romanização: Fortins e Ocupação do Território nos séc. II a.C. – I d.C., with R. Mataloto and C. Roque. "Translation and the Uncanny: Interpreting Image, Material, and Text from Ancient Mediterranean Magical Documents." Annual Doctoral Student Colloquium, English Department, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Lausanne. "Preliminary Results of the 2010 Excavation of the Fortified Structure at Caladinho, Portugal." The Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, with R. Mataloto, R. Clemente, and R. Vennarucci. "Worked to Death: Slaves, Mines, and Industrial Safety in the Roman World." A Sickness unto Death: Pain, Suffering, and Despair in the Ancient World, Classics Graduate Student Association Conference, University at Buffalo. "Reading an Ancient Magician’s Code: the Case of the Amulet from Lisbon." Murphy Program Humanities Lecture Series, Hendrix College. Invited speaker. “Caladinho 2010: A Report on the Excavation and Field School,” University at Buffalo’s Department of Classics Brown Bag Series. “Reconsiderations of a Greco-Egyptian Magical Amulet in the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon.” Confronting the Supernatural: Magic, Myth and Ritual, AIA Toronto Society Centenary Graduate Student Symposium. "The Social Variability of Metallurgical Pollution: Slaves, Metalworking, and Exposure to Environmental Contamination in the Roman World." Servi sunt. Immo homines: Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Slavery, University of Colorado at Boulder. “Pollution at Populonia: The Environmental Effects of an Etruscan Metallurgical Industry.” What a Waste: Polluting Spaces, Bodies, and Minds in the Ancient World, Classics Graduate Student Association Conference, University at Buffalo. “The Orientation, Space, and Landscape of Early Mycenaean Tholoi in the Argolid.” Society for American Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin. “Temple Architecture and the House of Epidius Rufus.” Classics Association of the Middle, West, and South, University of Florida. “The Ideology of Women’s Adornment in Archaic Athenian Black Figure Pottery.” Association of Women Faculty Graduate Symposium, University of Arizona. “An Analysis of Space and Architecture in the House of Epidius Rufus, Pompeii." Annual Graduate Symposium, Department of Classics, University of Arizona. |
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
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2021 - 2022
2021 2020 - 2021 2017 2016 2011 - 2012 2011 2011 2011 2010 2008 - 2011 2007 - 2011 2007 - 2011 2007 2006 2005 2004 - 2007 2004 2000 - 2004 2000 - 2004 |
Research, Creative, and Scholarly Activities Grant for the student project "Analysis and 3D Modeling of Artifacts from the Department of Humanities and Philosophy" (supports one student with tuition waiver and research stipend), University of Central Oklahoma
Outstanding Lecturer of the Year, College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma Research, Creative, and Scholarly Activities Grant for the student project "A Statistical Analysis of Economic Inter-connectivity from Two Archaeological Sites in Portugal" (supports one student with a tuition waiver and research stipend), University of Central Oklahoma Temporary Faculty Start-Up Grant for "Roman Pottery Fabrics from Ostia Antica, Italy," University of Central Oklahoma ($400) Chambers Library Books & Materials Grant, University of Central Oklahoma ($1,000) Doctoral Assistant Exchange Fellowship, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des Lettres ($25,000) Loan of a Portable XRF Instrument, Bruker Elemental ($8,000 value) Graduate Student Association Conference Fund, University at Buffalo ($400) AIA Annual Meeting Travel Grant, Archaeological Institute of America ($150) Mark Diamond Research Fund, University at Buffalo ($1,090 total) Classics Department Summer Research Funds, University at Buffalo ($1,750 total) Presidential Fellowship, University at Buffalo ($6,000 per year) Tuition Scholarship, University at Buffalo ($10,000 per year) Norman Austin Outstanding M.A. Thesis Award, University of Arizona ($650) CAMWS Institutional Membership Award, University of Arizona Departmental Travel Grant, University of Arizona Classics Fellowship Graduate Tuition Award, University of Arizona ($11,000 per year) Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society, Hendrix College Chairman’s Scholarship, Hendrix College Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship, Hendrix College |
Professional & Community Service
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2021 - present
2020 - present 2019 - present 2017 - present 2017 - 2018 2014 - 2015 2014 2012 - 2016 2013 - 2014 2011 - 2012 2011 2011 2009 - 2010 2008 - 2011 2007 - 2009 2006 - 2007 2004 - 2007 2004 2003 - 2004 2002 |
President, Oklahoma City Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America
Faculty Advisor, Archaeology Society student organization, University of Central Oklahoma Therapy Dog Partner, Broncho Barkers, University of Central Oklahoma Scholarships & Awards Coordinator, Dept. of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma Abstract Reviewer, National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2018, University of Central Oklahoma Freelance Editor, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona Latin Pedagogy Roundtable, Department of Classics, University of Arizona National Junior Classics League Faculty Sponsor, Basis Tucson North School Classics Subject Area Advisor, BASIS Educational Group Theoretical Archaeology Group Buffalo 2012 Conference Organizing Committee Mark Diamond Research Fund Grant Disbursement Committee Volunteer, AIA 2011 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX Classics Graduate Student Association Webmaster, University at Buffalo Secretary, Western New York Society of the AIA Secretary, Classics Graduate Student Association, University at Buffalo Classics Department Graduate Student Representative, University of Arizona Secretary, Tucson Society of the AIA Volunteer, Greek Kiln Project, Tucson Society of the AIA Latin Tutor, Hendrix College Student Representative, Anthropology Faculty Search Committee, Hendrix College |
