Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Administrative Office
- Research Facilities
- Archaeology Lab
Biography
I specialize in the archaeology of the Southern Levant, and my primary research interest involves the study of the Early Bronze ceramic industry in Central Jordan and its impact on socio-political and economic organization. My interest in material culture, ceramics in particular, involves a variety of analytical techniques, primarily petrography. As manager of the Collections in the NMC archaeology lab, I am involved with many of the NMC research projects, past and present, that are represented in the lab: Tell Tayinat, Tall Madaba, the Gezer Gate Project, and Khirbet el-Qom to name a few. As a member of the CRANE project, I manage the computer lab and facilitate the data integration at U of T. I enjoy being part of NMC’s outreach program working with primary and secondary school groups introducing young students to archaeology and the study of ancient societies.
Education
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PhD candidate, University of Toronto, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Fields of Study
- Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Interest
- Bronze and Iron Age Levant
- Development of Complex Societies
- Regional Inter-connections
- Ceramic Technology
- Material Culture
Publications
- Copper Trade Networks from the Arabah: Re-assessing the Impact on Early Iron Age Moab (Springer : 2023)
- Tell Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP): Seasons 2017–2019 (The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal : 2022)
- The Madaba Settlement Cluster and the Nature of Early Bronze Age Urbanism in the Central Highlands of Jordan (Equinox, Sheffield : 2021)
- Linking Iron I Sites on the Madaba Plain: The Evidence from Collared Pithoi (Department of Antiquities of Jordan : 2019)
- Petrographic Analysis of Iron I Pottery (Brill, Leiden : 2019)
- Persian Period Bes Vessels from Tell el-Maskhuta (Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities : 2017)
- The EB IV Pottery from the Southern Ghors and Northeast ‘Arabah Survey: Regionalism Re-examined (Equinox, Sheffield : 2017)
- MB II Flat-Bottomed Handmade Cooking Pots from Wadi Tumilat: A Useful Chronological Marker or an Indicator of Technical Style? (Brill, Leiden : 2015)
- Conspicuous Consumption and Tribute: Assyrian Glazed Ceramic Bottles at Khirbat al-Mudayna ath-Thamad (University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 2014)
- A Late Iron Age I Ceramic Assemblage from Central Jordan: Integrating Form, Technology and Distribution (Bloomsbury, New York : 2014)
- From Bandit to King: David's Time in the Negev and the Transformation of a Tribal Entity into a Nation State (Peeters, Leuven : 2014)
- Mādabā before Mesha : the earliest settlements on the city's west acropolis (Department of Antiquities of Jordan : 2013)
- Petrographic Analysis of EB III Ceramics from Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan: a Re-evaluation of Levels of Production (Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford : 2009)