IPCAA Graduate Student
About
Machal earned a B.A. with Honors in Classical Archaeology from Macalester College and a M.A. in Classics from the University of Colorado- Boulder. Her work examines the material culture (with a focus on pottery) of northwest Greece and southwest Albania at the end of the Hellenistic period into the early Roman period and what it can say about how different groups of people living in these areas reacted in response to changing political, economic, and social conditions.
Her field experience has included work as a staff member on the Western Argolid Regional Project (2014-2019), a site supervisor at the ASCSA’s excavations at Corinth (2015-2016), finds processing at the Sikyon Excavations (2019), a survey team supervisor at the Olynthos Project (2016), and a trench supervisor at Horvat Omrit in Israel (2010-2011).
Machal is also interested in how university pedagogy and archaeology can serve different communities outside of academia through public scholarship and has participated in the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Change and Engaged Pedagogy Initiative.
