IPCAA Graduate Student
About
Laurel earned her B.A. in Classical Civilizations, Classical Archaeology, and German with High Honors from the University of Michigan. She then received her M.A. in Classics, Classical Archaeology Emphasis, from the University of Arizona. Her M.A. thesis explored to what extent the architecture and constructions at the Mycenaean palaces are emulated at non-palatial sites, focusing on domestic spaces in the Peloponnese.
Her interests range from the Bronze Age through Classical Greece and primarily include the organization of Greek households, city planning, ancient domestic spaces, the materiality of everyday life in the ancient world, and social groups not commonly represented in the ancient texts.
She has excavated as a volunteer with the Balkan Heritage Field School at the sites of Stobi in the Republic of North Macedonia and Emporion Pistiros in Bulgaria. Laurel has also been a trench supervisor at Michigan’s Olynthos Project, a field project focused on the Classical city of Olynthos in northern Greece.
