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Associate Professor, Contemporary Studies and Indigenous Studies; Fellow, Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa
Areas of Expertise: Iroquoian archaeology;
Indigenous studies;
Six Nations history
South African archaeology
archaeology and tourism
Biography: I was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. A Grade 11 ancient history course sparked my interest in archaeology and prompted me to attend McMaster University, where I studied first Classics and later Anthropology, specializing in Iroquoian archaeology.…
Areas of Expertise: Archaeology;
Egypt;
Jordan;
Israel;
Mesopotamia;
Ancient religions
Biography: Dr. P. M. Michele Daviau is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid laurier University and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Since 1996, Dr. Daviau has…
Areas of Expertise: Roman archaeology;
Mediterranean archaeology;
Trade amphoras;
Greek and Roman pottery;
Punic and Roman Carthage
Biography: Joann Freed has a PhD in Classics from the University of Alberta (1983) and is Professor and Chair (2004-2007) in the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Laurier. She has written many scholarly articles on Roman pottery and…
Areas of Expertise: Historical archaeology;
Industrial archaeology;
18th- and 19th-century material culture;
French and British fortifications
Biography: Dr. Triggs has been involved in Historical Archaeology in Ontario and abroad for almost 30 years. He has conducted annual field school excavations at Discovery Harbour Provincial Historic Site; the last 18th/early 19th century Beasley fur trade site…
Areas of Expertise: South Asian religions, history, literature, and languages;
Buddhist transmission across Asia;
Gandharan manuscripts, epigraphy, and archaeology;
Inscriptions and petroglyphs in northern Pakistan
Biography: Jason Neelis studies religious traditions of South Asia in historical, economic, and material contexts, with an emphasis on issues related to processes of cross-cultural mobility and exchange. In Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks (Brill,…
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