Katie Breyer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology program at Bryn Mawr College. Her interests include changes and continuity in landscapes, cross-cultural interactions between Rome and the provinces, post-colonialism, and deconstructing Roman imperialism. Katie has worked with our project since 2019 and has excavated with projects in Sicily, Southern Italy, and at Pompeii. Her current Ph.D. research focuses on urban and rural settlement changes around Sant’Imbenia and Turris Libisonis during the early Roman period in Sardinia.
Joseph Carrino is currently a PhD student in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University. He is interested in how narrative-driven socio-economic microhistories can tell big stories of change attendant across Roman Italy, especially pertaining to cross-cultural interactions and economic exchange. Joseph has previously excavated in the Sabina, Italy as part of the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project.
Anna Soifer is a PhD candidate at Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, and she received a BA in Archaeology and Classics from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation aims to investigate the social and spatial dynamics of craft production in late 8th-4th century BCE Etruria, and broader research interests include archaeologies of craft production, pre-Roman Italy, communities, and interaction. In addition to SAP, Anna’s current fieldwork includes the Progetto S’Urachi, and she has previously worked at sites in central Italy, Sudan, and the United States. Anna surveyed with SAP in 2019 and now serves as our ceramic fabric analyst.