Who We Are

James Newhard
Director of CHiL, Professor of Archaeology
Interests/Specializations: Aegean Prehistory, Late Antique/early Medieval eastern Mediterranean societies, landscape studies, Mediterranean archaeology, resiliency, geospatial modeling, lithic analysis.

R. Grant Gilmore III
Director of Historic Preservation and Community Planning
Interests/Specializations: 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/exhibition

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 usewear 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

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

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

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

Allison Sterrett-Krause
Associate Professor of Classics
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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