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The Via Consolare Project in Pompeii
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Michael Anderson, PhD (Cantab.) Project Director Associate Professor Department of Classics San Francisco State University USA |
Michael completed his PhD in 2005 at the University of Cambridge in Classical Archaeology. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Classics at San Francisco State University, teaching courses in Roman Archaeology, Egyptology, Classical Archaeology and the Classics in Film. He has worked in Pompeii since 1996 and his research interests include Roman domestic architecture, Urbanism in the ancient world, Egyptian epigraphy, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and computer applications in archaeology. |
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Claire Weiss Project Coordinator Department of Art History University of Virginia USA |
Claire is currently a PhD student in the History of Art Department at the University of Virginia. She received a Masters in Archaeology with distinction from University College London Institute of Archaeology in 2007 and a BA from Swarthmore College in 2003. She has worked and supervised field excavation in Pompeii since 2001, and has worked in CRM excavation in the United States. Her own research within the ancient city utilizes Geographical Information Systems to analyze Pompeian sidewalks. In addition to her work with the VCP, Claire is also involved with post-processing and finalisation with the former excavations of the University of Bradford. |
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Vincenzo Sabini Assistente Tecnico Scientifico Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei Italy |
Vincenzo Sabini has collaborated with many international projects working at sites in Campania and today ranges in his work from Pompeii to Stabia, sharing his passion for research in the ancient sites and considerable knowledge of the cities, including great familiarity with previous scholarship. He also helps to forge connections between current projects, contributing significantly to the progress of on-going research at the site. Since 2012 he has overseen our excavation, ensuring safety and site preservation, as well as assisting in our research overall.
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Giuseppe Di Martino
Assistente Tecnico Scientifico Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei Italy |
Guiseppe Di Martino has collaborated with numerous projects of university sponsored research within the ancient city. He has collaborated on several testi di laurea in architecture for la Universidad de Alicante, the University of Cincinnati, Stanford University, the Università "Suor Orsola" di Napoli, la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut as well as regularly working with the Via Consolare Project. We are very fortunate to have him as a part of our team.
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Amy Bower University of Glasgow Christie’s Education UK |
Amy is currently an MA student in the History of Art and the Art Market with Christie’s Education, London and the University of Glasgow. She received her BA in Art History and Archaeology from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee in 2011. She has participated in and supervised archaeological excavation and artifact analysis for the Rhodes Archaeology Field School at the Ames Plantation in Fayette County Tennessee since 2009 and has worked with the Via Consolare Project since 2010. Her interests include Roman wall painting, conservation, and ethics in the art market. |
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Caitlin Callahan Department of Classics San Francisco State University USA |
Caitlin graduated from the San Francisco State University Department of Classics in 2011 with a degree in Classical Archaeology and plans to pursue a Masters in Roman archaeology in order to satisfy her broad-ranging interests in the whole Roman period. Having excavated with the Via Consolare Project 2009, she returned to continue her studies in 2012. |
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Matt Fittock Department of Archaeology University of Reading UK |
Matt joined the team in 2012 and is pursuing an MA in Archaeology at the University of Reading, where his dissertation examines pipe-clay figurines from Roman London. Having previously dug at Silchester, his main interests lie in aspects of Roman urbanism, provincial/frontier identity studies, and how these may be investigated through the study of material culture. |
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Megan Gorman Department of Classics Boulder, Colorado USA |
Megan received her MA in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2010 and is currently teaching Latin. She graduated with a BA in History and Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has worked in Pompeii since 2005. She is currently researching the relationship between mosaic floors and wall paintings in the entranceways of houses in Pompeii, Ostia and Herculaneum. Her interests include the changing uses of urban space, Pompeian archaeology, and mosaics. |
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Daniel Jackson Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity University of Birmingham UK |
Dan finished his BSc at Bradford in Archaeological Science. He has conducted and supervised archaeological excavation at Pompeii since 2004 and currently works in the UK on National Heritage excavations. His research aims to provide a better understanding of ancient urban spaces and the varied uses to which the urban environment could be put in antiquity. He specialises in archaeological survey and stratigraphic interpretation. |
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Richard Hobbs Numismatist Co-Curator of Roman Britain British Museum UK |
Richard Hobbs is Co-Curator of Roman Britain at the British Musuem. He is also a specialist in the identification, study and analysis of ancient coins, with over fifteen years of experience in Pompeii alone in addition to his previous work. Having now brought the entire assemblage of coins produced by the University of Bradford's excavations in Insula VI 1 to publication, he has worked with the Via Consolare Project's coins since 2007, adding our data to his valuable and innovative study of Pompeian local minting, immitation, forgery, and the production and use of small-change.
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Simon Hunt Geologist University College London UK |
Since completing his PhD in Geology from University College London, Simon has held post-doctoral fellowships in the United States and the UK, and conducted research across the globe. Since 2011, he has contributed his geological knowledge towards a more scientific examination of the natural and early soils recovered in the deepest parts of our excavations.
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Victoria Keitel Pottery Specialist Department of Archaeology University of Reading UK |
Having completed her undergraduate degree at UCLA, Victoria is now a graduate student at the University of Reading. She works on the pottery excavated by the Via Consolare Project, including illustration and analysis. Her primary interests centre on early Imperial Roman pottery and on terra sigilata in particular. In addition to her work with the VCP, Victoria is also involved with post-processing pottery with the former excavations of the University of Bradford.
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Charlene Murphy Ecofact Specialist Director of Archaeology Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation Canada |
Charlene is a specialist in the recovery and study of ecofactual remains, with specialisation in carbonised and mineralised seeds, having gained her PhD in archaeobotany from University College London (UCL). She has wide experience in Pompeii, having been involved in the study of ecofacts there for over six years. She is currently the Director of Archaeology with the Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation, and has worked with the Via Consolare Project in the analysis of ecofactual materials recovered during excavation since 2006.
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Stephanie Pearson History of Art Department University of California, Berkeley USA |
Stephanie is currently a PhD student in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked with the Via Consolare Project since 2008. At the 2011 Anual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, she co-chaired a session on Roman wall painting. She recently completed MA in Art History at Berkeley, having previously earned her BA from the same institution. Her research interests include ancient Roman domestic space, painting, and sculpture as well as the Etruscan and Italic populations prior to Roman conquest. |
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Erin Pitt AHMA Program University of California, Berkeley USA |
Erin is currently a PhD student in the group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California Berkeley. She completed her MA in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to field work in Tuscany and Rome, she has worked in Pompeii since 2008. Her research interests focus upon urbanization and the interaction between industrial and domestic space throughout the Roman empire as well as the archaeology of non-elites, numismatics, and technological applications in archaeology. |
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Robyn Veal Charcoal Specialist British School at Rome (BSR) Italy |
Robyn Veal is an internationally recoginized specialist in the identification, study, and analysis of ancient carbonized wood and ancient ecofacts who is involved with many archaeological projects in Italy and throughout the Mediterranean. She is skilled in numerous methods of analysis, having gained broad training both in archaeological excavation at Pompeii and during her PhD at the University of Sydney. She has worked closely with the Via Consolare Project in the recovery and study of carbonized ecofactual remains since 2007.
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Ali "Atomic" Hightower Department of Classics/History San Francisco State University USA |
Christy Schirmer Department of Classics San Francisco State University USA |
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Travis Ash Department of Anthropology San Francisco State University USA |
Katerina Catania Department of Classics/Psychology San Francisco State University USA |
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Ben Gorham Department of Art History University of Virginia USA |
Caitlin Stark Department of Classics San Francisco State University USA |
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Kazu Suzuki Department of Classics San Francisco State University USA |
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Briece Edwards Excavation Consultant USA |
Between 2005 and 2010 Briece was a co-director of the Project, and he continues to work as a consultant in excavation and archaeological science. He has sixteen years of experience excavating in ancient Pompeii and his research insterests centre upon the formation processes of urban sites in general and in Pompeii and South Asia in particular, post excavation analysis, publication, public outreach, and the science of stratigraphic excavation. |
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Giulia Malafronte Architetto Roma Italy |
Giulia has worked with the Via Consolare Project since 2009 in creating and maintaining our 'Piano di Sicurezza/Health and Safety Plan' for conducting archaeological work within our research areas safely in accordance with Italian laws.
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Gianfranco Morelli Geophysics Expert Geoastier S.r.l. Livorno, Italy |
Gianfranco manages a professional firm specialising in archaeological prospecting and geophysical analysis. Through cooperation with his team of specialists the Project has undertaken two successful campaigns of geophysical research in Pompeii. |
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Federico Fischanger Geophysics Specialist Geoastier S.r.l. Livorno, Italy |
For two years Federico has provided the Project with his detailed expertise in Electrical Resistive Tomography and overseen geophysical research in the field as well as contributing to its post-season analysis and interpretation throughout the year. |
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Alessio Pacchini Geophysics Specialist Geoastier S.r.l. Livorno, Italy |
Alessio provided his expertise in magnetometry to the Project during the 2007 field season and has been vital to the interpretation of its findings. |
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