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I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Ìýat the Î÷¹ÏÊÓƵÌýwhoÌýstudiesÌýthe material and textualÌýproduction of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece (ca. 1600-1100 BCE).ÌýI'veÌýdeveloped new methodsÌýfor investigating individuals named in the administrative Linear B textsÌýand IÌýÌýfrom thisÌýevidence that Mycenaean society was far less hierarchical and much more dynamic than it had been considered in the past.ÌýI am co-author (with †Bennett, Melena, †Olivier, and Palaima) of (2025).

I'm co-director (with Sarah James and Scott Gallimore)ÌýofÌýthe , a diachronic archaeological survey in southern Greece, and co-director (with Kevin Pluta)Ìýof the Pylos Tablets Digital Project, which involves the digital documentation of all the administrative documents from the "Palace of Nestor" at Pylos. I occasionally write about archaeology and the Aegean Bronze AgeÌýon my .

I received my degrees from the University of Michigan (BAÌý1997) and the University of Texas at Austin (MAÌý2000; PhD 2006); I've taught in Classics departmentsÌýat Trinity University (2006-7), Florida State University (2007-8), and the University of Toronto (2008-16).ÌýI've been named a College Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts & Sciences of the Î÷¹ÏÊÓƵ (2024), and a fellow by the MacArthur FoundationÌý(2015).