Amelia Eichengreen
(she/her/hers)
Amelia received an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in 2013, an M.A. from Durham University in Roman Archaeology in 2016, and an M.A. from Columbia University in Classical Studies in 2017. She has roughly a decade of field experience and currently works as an assistant supervisor at the Gabii Project.
While she has published on a variety of subjects including Roman Athens, Archilochus, and ethnic identity she specializes in the architecture of central Italy during the first millennium BCE. Recently, she co-organized a two day conference in Rome, “the Origins of the Forum and the Basilica”, which will produce three edited volumes. Her dissertation research on archaic domestic architecture tracks the architectural development of domestic spaces in central Italy during the archaic period, or approximately 900-450 BCE, when homes moved from mud huts to complex multi-roomed buildings. A centerpiece of this dissertation is a new interpretation for the archaic houses on the north Palatine slope published fall 2023 in the Journal of Roman Archaeology. This dissertation project was recently the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy and the Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship.
See more at her webpage here: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/amelia-w-eichengreen/about
Laurel earned her B.A. in Classical Civilizations, Classical Archaeology, and German with High Honors from the University of Michigan and her M.A. in Classics, Classical Archaeology Emphasis, from the University of Arizona. Her interests range from the Bronze Age through Hellenistic 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 - especially children.
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. Currently she is the field supervisor of Michigan's Pella Urban Dynamics Project.
Gabriel graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in Greek and minors in Latin and Religion. While attending Swarthmore College they were a Mellon Mays Fellow and in 2017 while studying abroad at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, in Rome, they cemented their passion for archaeology. Gabriel completed the Bridge MA program in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan in the Spring of 2023. Gabriel has participated in fieldwork in both Greece and Italy. They participated in the Azoria Project, on Crete (2017), and have spent four seasons working with the Gabii Project (2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023), in Italy, two as a volunteer and two as a staff member in the Environmental Lab. Their research interests are centered around Early Central Italy, particularly on identity formation, food, archaeobotany, and zooarchaeology.
Chloe earned her B.A in Classics from Texas Tech University. She earned an M.A in Greek Art and Archaeology from King’s College London, where she wrote a thesis focused on the Centauromachy in Greek architectural sculpture, as well as an M.A. in Classics at Texas Tech University, with a thesis titled “The Vergina Hunting Frieze Recontextualized: the Development and Significance of Hunting in Macedonian Burials”. Since 2019, she has participated in the excavations at Argilos and Kerdylion in Northern Greece (trench supervisor 2023-2024). She has also been a member of the Libarna Urban Landscapes Project (Italy) and is currently a trench supervisor at the University of Michigan’s Pella Urban Dynamics Project (2022-present).
Her research focuses on urbanism and state formation in Macedonia, spanning from the Iron Age to the Classical period, and the cultural interactions between Macedonians, Thracians, and Greek colonists in the Northern Aegean.
Elena Navarre earned her B.A. with honors in Classical Languages and in Classical Archaeology in 2022 from the University of Texas at Austin. Her thesis, entitled “Cum Torrens Fit Stillicidium”, focuses on domestic and public water usage within the city of Rome during the late stages of the Roman Empire. In the Spring of 2024, Elena completed her M.A. in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. She has excavated at Argilos and Kerdylion in Northern Greece, and has served as a research assistant in various academic projects, notably the Black Classicists in Texas Exhibition.
Elena’s research focuses on Roman art and architecture and its relation to water usage; specifically within fountains and bathhouses. She is also interested in museum studies and has received a Bridging Disciplines Museum Studies Certificate at UT Austin, which she completed alongside her various internships at Austin-based museums and archives. Elena aims to intertwine her academic interests with her passion and enthusiasm for museums and public outreach.
Julian received a BA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in 2017 and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago in 2020. Their MA thesis dealt with the landscape of crocodile cults in the Greco-Roman Egyptian Fayyūm Oasis. They participated in the University of Chicago excavation of Horvat Duvshan in Israel in 2019. Julian worked for three years at the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes at the University of Chicago on projects using Geographic Information Systems to document archaeological sites in Iraq and Afghanistan. They also spent two years performing cultural resource management archaeology surveys in the United States. Julian is a member of The Northeast Fayyūm Lakeshore Project (NFLP). In 2023 they took part in excavation of the site of Karanis in the Egyptian Fayyūm and carried out a field survey of Greco-Roman canals. Julian’s research focuses on human interaction with landscape in Egypt during the Greco-Roman period. They have presented papers on irrigation systems and trade routes in the Egyptian Western Desert and its oases. They founded a local chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, ARCE Detroit, in 2023 and served as its first president.
Volkan received his B.Arch. in Architecture and MA in History of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). His MA thesis essentially focused on assessing the role of the architectural language of the imperial cult and imagery in the transformation of the urban spaces in Roman Ephesus, which employed a kinesthetic method that incorporates the dynamics of space and movement. He has participated in several archaeological projects in Turkey: in Ephesus, Teos, Lagina Hecate Sanctuary, Ayasuluk and Notion. Volkan is interested in cultural encounters, landscape and urban studies, and the dynamic relationship between identity and the built environment.
