Michael Cosmopoulos DIRECTOR Michael Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Chair of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He is also director of the Eleusis Archaeological Project and the Oropos Survey Project.

FIELD STAFF

Chris Mundigler SITE SUPERVISOR Chris Mundigler, a contract archaeologist with InCA Research Services, specializes in technical and logistical aspects of archaeological fieldwork, including surveying, mapping, planning, GPS, GIS, and photography.

Meredith Reifschneider FIELD COORDINATOR Meredith Reifschneider is a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She has worked at several sites in Greece and the southwestern United States. Her interests include Bronze Age archaeology, landscape archaeology, and cultural geography.

Ansley Beard TRENCH SUPERVISOR Ansley Beard is a recent graduate of the College of Charleston. She is currently working at the site of Mitrou in East Lokris, and has worked on several other sites in Greece.

Demetris Brellas TRENCH SUPERVISOR Demetris Brellas is currently a graduate student at Boston University. He is also currently excavating in Turkey. His research interests include Old World historical archaeology and zooarchaeology.

Stavroula Drakopoulou TRENCH SUPERVISOR Stavroula Drakopoulou is a graduate of the University of Athens. She has worked on several sites in Greece.

Barbara Eleftheriou TRENCH SUPERVISOR Barbara Eleftheriou is a graduate of the University of Athens and has extensive archaeological experience on sites throughout Greece.

Jen Glaubius TRENCH SUPERVISOR Jen Glaubius is a graduate student in the Geography Department at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Her research interests include the application of ·physical geography techniques (geomorphology, hydrology, and soils) ·and remonte sensing, GIS, to archaeological questions.

Joanna Potenza TRENCH SUPERVISOR Joanna Potenza is completing her MA degree in Archaeology from UCLA, and has just completed the Regular Program at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. She has excavated in Corinth and Mitrou in Greece, as well as in Albania and America. She is particularly interested in Bronze Age mortuary practices, anthropological theory, and bright pink digging supplies.

Allisa Stoimenoff TRENCH SUPERVISOR Allisa Stoimenoff is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin in Classical Archaeology. Her research interests include Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Greece and Attic ceramics.

Rebecca Worsham TRENCH SUPERVISOR Rebecca Worsham is a graduate student in classical archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has excavated previously at Mitrou and Mycenae, and is interested in the archaeology of the Greek Bronze Age.

Steven Clarke ARCHITECT Steven Clarke is the project architect and illustrator. He is a licensed landscape architect practicing in Vancouver, Canada, and is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia. He has also been the project architect for the excavations in Greece at Eleusis and executed drawings of the Mycenaean settlement of Grotto on Naxos, for the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Michael Nelson ARCHITECT Mike Nelson is a specialist in Mycenaean architecture. He has worked extensively in Messenia, including work as co-director of the Minnesota Pylos Project from 1990-1998.

MUSEUM STAFF

Kate Bracher LAB DIRECTOR Kate Bracher is professor emeritus of astronomy at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. She has been coming to IKAP since 2000, and currently is the supervisor of museum operations.

Cynthia Shelmerdine CERAMICS EXPERT Cynthia Shelmerdine is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics Emerita at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research specialties are Aegean Bronze Age archaeology and Mycenaean Greek language and culture.

Joann Gulizio CERAMICS EXPERT Joann Gulizio is currently teaching at the College of Charleston. Her research interests include Mycenaean religion, and Aegean scripts.

Mary Jane Cuyler CERAMICS EXPERT Mary Jane Cuyler is a Ph.D. student in Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to Mycenaean ceramics, her research interests include the use of landscape in Mycenaean Messenia and the perfume industry at the Palace of Nestor.

Yuki Furuya ILLUSTRATOR Yuki Furuya is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. She has previously worked at Halai, Episkopi-Bamboula, Azoria, Cornth, Chora, Priniatikos Pyrgos, Mochlos, and Papadiokambos.

Kevin Pluta IT AND DATABASE EXPERT Kevin Pluta is an adjunct instructor at the College of Charleston. His research interests include Aegean scripts and literacy, administration, and database/archival information systems. He has also worked on other ancient sites.

Vasilis Galanakos CONSERVATION Vasilis Galanakos is a conservator of antiquities. He has been working in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens in the Sculpture Department from 2004-2009. He has also worked on excavation in Despotiko in Paros and Nafpaktos.

Bob LAB MORALE Bob has extensive experience of archaeological sites in Europe, the United States and Australia. He plays an essential role in maintaining morale in the museum.

SPECIALISTS

Maria Liston PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST Maria Liston is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. She has previously participated in excavations at Kavousi and Azoria in Crete, the Athenian Agora, Mitrou, and Fort William Henry, New York. Her specialties include mortuary behaviour, paleopathology and skeletal biology.

Deborah Ruscillo FAUNAL ANALYSIS Deborah Ruscillo received her PhD from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 2000. She is currently an instructor and research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Wiener Laboratory at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Her specialties include ancient diet and economy in Greece, zooarchaeological methodology, and Murex Royal Purple production.

Susan Allen PALEOETHNOBOTANIST Susan Allen is an adjunct assistant professor in the Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Cincinnati. She has worked at several sites in Greece, Albania, the eastern Mediterranean, and the eastern United States. Her research interests include landscape archaeology, the rise of complex societies, the origins of agriculture, palaeoethnobotany, and the interaction of people with wetlands.

See the 2008 IKAP Staff