IPAA Graduate Student
About
Lauren received a B.S. in Anthropology at the Ohio State University with a minor in Geographic Information Science, earning magna cum laude in 2015. In 2018, Lauren received her M.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Classical Archaeology and her certificate in GIS from the University of Arizona. Her master’s thesis analyzed and redefined the local Minoan Crete motif, ‘trickle pattern,’ according to its presence in the Aegean throughout the Bronze Age and its linkage to wine production, storage, and consumption on Crete. Lauren has participated in the excavation at the Holder-Wright earthworks (2013), the project at the Mycenaean Lower Town (2014), and has excavated with the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project since 2017. Lauren’s primary research interests are in pottery analysis, economic exchange, food production, and cultural identity in the Bronze Age.
