Mediterranean

My research focuses primarily on the archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean in the first millennium BCE. My current book project investigates economic inequality, social differentiation, and rural communities in Early Iron Age, Archaic, and Classical Crete. Other published and in-progress work includes contributions on statistical approaches to survey data, Crete in the Homeric epics, the contemporary archaeology of the Greek countryside, the gender sociology of Mediterranean survey archaeology, and conservatism in Cretan material culture.

Jeffrey received his BA in Archaeology from the University of Saskatchewan, and MSc in Skeletal and Dental Bioarchaeology from University College London. He is interested in applying a biocultural approach and integrating new materialisms into studies of health, disease, and embodiment. He hopes to examine patterns of early life stress and its effects on health over the life course in the context of cultural and political changes in Medieval Italian society, with particular reference to notions of eschatology, sex, and gender roles.

I received a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2017, where I majored in the History of Art. My undergraduate research focused primarily on Greek art and architecture of the Archaic period and, more specifically, on Attic pottery. My desire to understand the connections between the images on Attic pottery and the socio-political climate of the period, led to a close examination of the Attic Black-Figure collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

I began my academic career at Yale, where I majored in Classical Civilization and graduated magna cum laude with Distinction in the Major in 2016. My senior thesis examined the Lokrian tribute, delving into literary, epigraphic, and archaeological source material to trace how and why this small historical ritual became a metaphor for female voicelessness and Roman hegemony in later literature.

Archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt; Greek, Coptic, and Demotic Papyrology; Lexicography; Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.

I graduated from Boston University with a double major in Classical Civilizations and Archaeology. In 2013, I received a M.A. in Ancient History from University College London where I earned a Distinction on my thesis, The Role of Attendants in Ancient Greek Combat. I have worked on archaeological excavation and survey projects in Southern Italy and Greece. Since 2010, I have been working in various roles at the Mochlos Archaeological Project in East Crete. I was a site supervisor between 2013 and 2016, and continue to work with that project as a metals specialist.