Who We Are

A Dynamic Synergy of Faculty, Researchers & Students

Researchers look out over mountainous terrain.

The Center for Historical Landscapes is a partnership of faculty, affiliated researchers and collaborators, and students that create a dynamic synergy for the study of historical landscapes.

Faculty

From hidden histories and Mediterranean archaeology to landscape evolution and cultural resource management, our faculty, affiliates and collaborators explore the impacts of human and environmental change over the course of our history.
  • Faculty

    James Newhard
    Director of CHiL, Professor of Classics
    Aegean Prehistory, Late Antique/early Medieval eastern Mediterranean societies, landscape studies, resiliency, geospatial modeling, historical GIS, lithic analysis

    R. Grant Gilmore III
    Director of Historic Preservation and Community Planning
    Comparative colonial archaeology and architecture, artifact analyses (statistical, chemical, etc.), public archaeology, heritage management, African diaspora, Caribbean landscapes and geographic information systems

    Joanna Gilmore
    Instructor of Anthropology
    African diaspora, hidden histories, community archaeology, museum interpretations and exhibitions

    M. Scott Harris
    Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
    Coastal Plain and Continental Shelf stratigraphy, seafloor mapping, landscape evolution, geomorphology, habitat delineation

    Maureen Hays
    Professor of Anthropology
    Old World archaeology, prehistoric art and archaeological methods, Prehistoric hunters and gatherers, microscopic lithic use-wear analysis, early Lowcountry Euroamerican settlement

    Norm Levine
    Director of the SC GIS Lab and the Hazards Center
    Surficial processes, natural and environmental hazards, geoarcheaology, geospatial informatics and visualizations

    Peter Piccione
    Associate Professor of History
    Ancient Egypt, the Near East, Nubia and Cush; landscape archaeology; archaeological survey; satellite remote sensing; differential GPS mapping; GIS

    Sarah Platt
    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    Urban archaeology, Carolina Lowcountry history, African diaspora

    Tara Prakash
    Associate Professor of Ancient Art
    Ancient Egypt, ethnicity and identity, representations of 'other'

    Douglas Rivet
    Assistant Professor of Political Science
    Urban environments, policy and development; deep history mapping and geospatial applications.

    Hayden Smith
    Instructor of History
    Southeastern U.S. colonial and antebellum history; 18th-19th century rice cultivation in the Carolina Lowcountry; human and environmental interactions

    Allison Sterrett-Krause
    Director of Archaeology
    Art and architecture of Greece and Rome; ancient topography and urban development; ancient technology and craft production; Roman social history; Roman North Africa; gender in antiquity

  • Research Affiliates

    Danielle Cox
    Digital Collections Coordinator, Charleston Library Society
    Digital history, public history, Carolina Lowcountry history

    Hugh Elton
    Professor of Classics and History, Trent University
    Late Roman warfare, GIS applications in archaeology, ancient logistics 

    Niki Evelpidou
    Professor of Geomorphology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    Geomorphology, Geographic Information Systems

    John Haldon
    Emeritus Professor of History, Princeton University
    Byzantine and environmental history

    Foteini Kondyli
    Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
    Landscape archaeology, Byzantine rural history, social identity, 3D visualizations

    Giorgos Liakopoulos
    Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
    Ottoman taxation, Historical geography (GIS), Ottoman epigraphy and environmental history

    Antonia Lombardi
    CHiL Research Affiliate
    Landscape archaeology methodology, complexity, social identity and formation

    La'Sheia Oubre'
    CHiL Research Affiliate
    Descendant communities, public history

    Eric Poplin
    Brockington and Associates
    Cultural Resource Management, Southeastern US historic and prehistoric archaeology

Student Research Assistants

Student involvement is a critical element within CHiL. Students engage within the center's research mission as co-collaborators with faculty, research assistants/interns or as part of a larger collaborative team on ongoing projects.
  • 2025

    Addie Borowsky (Urban Studies): Georectification, Digitization and Data Integration for the Spatial History of Charleston

    Xelyn Rogers (Archaeology/Historic Preservation & Community Planning): Georectification, Digitization and Data Integration for the Spatial History of Charleston

    Savannah Walker (Archaeology/Anthropology): Georectification, Digitization and Data Integration for the Spatial History of Charleston

    Addison Ware (Classics): Georectification, Digitization and Data Integration for the Spatial History of Charleston

  • 2024

    Charleston Burton (Archaeology/Classics): Context and Feature Analysis of the 63 1/2 Coming Site, Charleston, SC

    Andrew Caldwell (Archaeology/Anthropology): Context and Feature Analysis of the 63 1/2 Coming Site, Charleston, SC

    Emma Jansen (Archaeology/Anthropology): Context and Feature Analysis of the 63 1/2 Coming Site, Charleston, SC

    Juliet Riddle (Geology/Classics): Continuity and Change in Land Use of the Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece

    Xelyn Rogers (Archaeology/Historic Preservations & Community Planning): Continuity and Change in Land Use of the Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece

    Jared Schiele (Archaeology/Classics): Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Inform Field Reconnaisance in the Epidauria, Greece

  • 2023

    Haley Bryan (Archaeology/Classics): Land Use Practices in the Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece

    Kelsey Campbell (Archaeology/Anthropology): Land Use Practices in the Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece

    Sam Honchock (Anthropology/Archaeology): Carolina Lowcountry Online Maps and Plats Project

    Emma Jansen (Archaeology/Geology):Land Use Practices in the Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece

    Matt Titzler (Archaeology/Classics): Land Use Practices in the Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece

  • 2022

    Kelsey Campbell (Archaeology/Anthropology): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Anna Duren (Historic Preservation and Community Planning/Biology): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Izzy Floyd (Archaeology/Anthropology): Carolina Lowcountry Online Maps and Plats Project

    Emma Forsyth (Archaeology/Classics): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Audrey Grau (Archaeology/History):Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street; Carolina Lowcountry Online Maps and Plats Project

    Charlote Guthrie (Archaeology/Classics): Aquaterra - Modeling Movement in the Ancient World

    Carolina Hannon (Archaeology/History): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Caleb Kelly (Archaeology/Anthropology): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Antonia Lombardi (Archaeology/Classics/Anthropology): Ancient Lansdcapes of the Epidauria; Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Skylar Pope (Archaeology/Geology): Geodatabase Design and Data Systems Organization for Nemours Plantation

    Scott Powell (Historic Preservation and Community Planning): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Charity Sullivan (Anthropology): Descendent Community History of the Combahee River near Nemours Plantation

  • 2021

    Skylar Pope (Archaeology/Geology): Geodatabase Design and Data Systems Organization for Nemours Plantation

    Charlotte Guthrie (Archaeology/Classics): Geospatial Network Analysis of the Epidauria

    Maddox Allen (Archaeology/Historic Preservation & Community Planning): Artifact Analysis of Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Caleb Kelly (Archaeology/Anthropology): Artifact Analysis of Phase II and Phase III Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Marie McMenamin (Archaeology/Classics): Artifact Analysis of Phase II Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

    Kacie Errington (Archaeology/Classics): Artifact Analysis of Phase II Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming Street

  • 2020

    Marie McMenamin (Archaeology/Classics): Archaeological Modeling of Potential Cultural Resources at Nemours Plantation

  • 2019

    Maggie Berlin (Historic Preservation & Community Planning): Archaeological, Cultural and Historical Resources at Nemours Plantation

    Robert Svendsen (Archaeology/Classics): Methods and Approaches to Conflict Landscapes

  • 2018

    Kaarin Pidge (Archaeology/Classics): Human Landscape Classification of the Epidauria, Greece

    Carolyn Dorey (Archaeology/Classics): Environmental Landscape Classification of the Epidauria, Greece

    Allie Davis (Archaeology/Classics): Optimization of Intensive Field Reconnaissance Methods

    Dylan Wolters (Archaeology/Classics): AQUATERRA 2.1: Optimization of Walking Algorithms and the Development of Decision Trees

  • 2017

    Molly Van Ostran (Archaeology/Anthropology): Digital Cartography and Data Archiving for the Avkat Archaeological Project

    Leah Bancheri (Historic Preservation & Community Planning): Historical Archives Research on the Properties of Landgrave Edmund Bellinger