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    • sacred landscapes of the mazi plain, greece in the roman and byzantine periods
    • itinerant producers in the eastern Roman empire
    • scales and impacts of early Christian devotional movement in Cilicia
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SARAH CRAFT

archaeologist, educator, GIS specialist, story mapper

An archaeologist and an educator, I have over a decade of experience designing, supervising, and leading archaeological research and fieldwork in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. Before moving to the private Cultural Heritage Management (CRM) sector in the United States, I spent five years in higher education teaching and doing research at Florida State University and Carleton College while also conducting fieldwork and research in Turkey, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, and Serbia. I am an expert in landscape-level archaeological survey and spatial analysis, and have extensive experience generating maps and analyses in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including ArcGIS and QGIS. Since 2020, I have focused on combining my passions for pedagogy and public outreach with my skills in spatial analysis and historical inquiry to create story maps: browser-based applications that allow for various media - digital maps, historical maps, modern and historical photos, video, audio, 3D models - to be integrated with narrative text and annotation for a seamless and interactive way of telling, showing, and actively exploring history.
 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

2021 - 2022

2019 - 2022
Adjunct Faculty in Classics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Senior GIS Specialist at PaleoWest (based in Tallahassee, Florida)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT

2019

2017 - 2018


2015 - 2017

2012 - 2013


2011
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Adjunct Faculty in Classics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota


Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Junior Fellowship at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Summer Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. 

EDUCATION

2008 - 2015





2003 - 2007


2001 - 2003
Ph.D., Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 
Dissertation Title: Early Christian Pilgrimage Pragmatics: Travel Infrastructure, Movement and Connectivity in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Anatolia 
Advisor: Professor Susan E. Alcock, Brown University


Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) in Latin and Ancient Greek, with a minor in Classical Archaeology. DePauw University Classics Department, Greencastle, Indiana.

Honors Diploma. Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities, Muncie, Indiana.

HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2012-2013

2011

2011

2008 - 2009

​2007 - 2008

2007



2003 - 2007

2003 - 2007

2006 - present

2005

2004
William A. Dyer Fellowship, Brown University Graduate School.

Brown University International Affairs Traveling Fund (IATF) 

Brown University Graduate School Research Travel Grant

Brown University Graduate Fellowship

DePauw University Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center intern, Greencastle, Indiana.
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Council of American and Overseas Research Center (CAORC)'s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to Ankara, Turkey

DePauw University Merit Scholarship 

National Merit Scholarship

Phi Beta Kappa

DePauw University Faculty / Student Summer Research Grant

Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterannean Archaeology's (CGMA) Summer Research Grant




PUBLICATIONS

2020
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​2018


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​In preparation 

2013



2012
Kondyli, Fotini and Sarah Craft. "The making of a Byzantine monastic landscape: a case study from the Mazi Plain in northwest Attica, Greece," Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 33.2. 

'Travel and Communications,' in Euchaïta: A Late Roman and Byzantine City, ed. John Haldon, Hugh Elton, and James Newhard. Cambridge University Press, 70-96. 


​"Movement and the Devotional Landscape," Caeculus. 

Newhard, James M.L., Norman S. Levine, Angelina D. Phebus, Sarah Craft and John Littlefield. 2013. “A geoinformatic approach to the collection of archaeological survey data,” Cartography and Geographic Information Science 40.1: 3-17.

Review of An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome. Lukas Thommen. 2009. The Classical Review 63.2: 483-485.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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  • Timok Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP), a landscape archaeological project in eastern Serbia co-directed with Dr. Stefan Pop-Lazić, Archaeological Institute at Belgrade, Serbia (National Geographic Society Waitt Grant Application to be submitted Fall 2016) 
  • Southeast Europe Digital Documentation Project (SEEDD), a digital humanities and research and pedagogy initiative with Dr. Anne Chen, Brown University 
  • Travel Monuments in Late Roman Isauria and Cilicia, an article in preparation for a Caeculus special issue edited by Christina Williamson, University of Groningen 
  • Travel in the Vilâyetnâme, a collaborative GIS and medieval text project with Dr. Nicolas Tré​panier, University of Mississippi
  • Monastic Landscapes of the Mazi Plain, a collaborative project with Dr. Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2017



2016



2015







2013






2011





​2010

 “Diachronic Landscape Survey in the Vicinity of Romuliana (Eastern Serbia),” Current work in the Roman               Archaeology of Southeast Europe, Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA),               Toronto, Canada.  
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“Monasteries, Pilgrimage, and Settlement Patterns in a Late Antique Landscape,” Archaeology of
          Monasticism
, Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), San Antonio,
          Texas. 

“Scales and Impacts of Christian Devotional Movement in Early Byzantine Cilicia,” in Archaeology of Ritual
          and Religion
, Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), Atlanta,            
          Georgia. 

“Going where the job takes you: Moving producers in the eastern Roman empire,” in The Imperial Craft:
          Comparative Perspectives on Production and Society in Empires
, Annual Meeting of the Society for
          American Archaeologists (SAA), San Francisco, California.

“A Smattering of Saints: Early Christian Cult at Seleukeia,” Brown Bag Series, Joukowsky Institute for
          Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 

'"Hastening from one of her homes to another": Regional Connections and the Infrastructure of Distributed
          Cult to St. Thekla at Meryemlik (near Silifke, Turkey),' Connectivity: Strategies and Impacts, a
          symposium at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Turkey. 


"Dynamic Landscapes: Movement, Pilgrimage and Travel Infrastructure in the Landscape," Brown Bag Series,
          Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University. 

"Intertwining Roads and Settlements in Late Antique Northern Anatolia," Late Antiquity of the 112th
          Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), San Antonio, Texas. 

"Being on the Road: Paths as Places,"  Archaeological Ambulations of the Theoretical Archaeology Group
          (TAG)
 conference at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 

INVITED ACADEMIC LECTURES

          2019         “Travel and Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago,” Panhandle Archaeological Society of Tallahassee (PAST)
          
           2017        “Spatial Patterns, Spatial Evidence: GIS and Archaeology,” Digital Scholars Group at FSU

           2015        “Monuments and Devotional Movement in Late Roman Cilicia,” Medieval Studies Association at FSU

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND DEVELOPMENT

2019 - 2020

​2017 - 2018


​2011 - 2012

2011 - 2012

​2011-2012

2011

2010 - 2011

2010
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2009 - 2010
Higher Education Teaching Certificate from the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (through Harvardx on edX). 

Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching
at Carleton College.


​Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate IV: Teaching Consultant Program.

Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate III: Professional Development Seminar.  

Secretary, Narragansett Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).  

​Intern for the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. 

Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate II: Tools for the Classroom.

Community and educational outreach intern for the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, in collaboration with the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum.
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Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate I: The Sheridan Teaching Seminar.

CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIA ORGANIZED

2017




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2012




2011

Current Work in the Roman Archaeology of Southeast Europe (co-organizer) Colloquium session to be held at the American Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, January 5-8, 2017. 

State of the Field: Turkey (organizer), Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. March 2-3, 2012. 

BIG: Monumentality and Meaning in the Ancient World (co-organizer), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. February 25-26, 2011. 

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

as Instructor of Record in the Department of Classics at Carleton College:
2018











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​2017
Food & Drink in the Ancient World, an introductory-level survey exploring patterns of food production, preparation, consumption, availability and taboos within the historic and geographic context of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds.

Intermediate Greek, 
a study of the essential forms and grammar of Attic Greek with reading of adapted as well as original passages.


Digital Archaeology, an upper-level undergraduate survey of digital technologies employed by archaeologists around the globe.

Ancient Technology, an introductory-level survey of technology as a social phenomenon in both the ancient and modern worlds.

​Greek Archaeology & Art, an introductory-level survey of the monuments, sites, landscapes and archaeological approaches to the ancient Greek world from prehistory to the late Roman period. 

Elementary Latin, an introduction to Latin vocabulary, forms and grammar in preparation for reading the ancient language in the original. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

as Instructor of Record in the Department of Classics at Florida State University: 

2019


​​2017





2016











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​2015
Ancient Mythology: East and West, a introductory-level comparative mythology course that relied on   reading primary sources in translation ​

Archaeology of Ancient Italy
, an introductory-level survey of the monuments, sites, and archaeological approaches to the Italian peninsula

Travel in the Ancient World, an upper-level undergraduate thematic survey course exploring the motivations, mechanisms and impacts of travel in the pre-modern world 

Food & Drink in the Ancient Mediterranean, an upper-level undergraduate thematic survey course exploring the development and cultural impacts of ancient foodways 

Data Analysis and Visualization, a skills-based graduate seminar focusing on network analysis, geographic information systems (GIS) and text analysis technologies for archaeologists, philologists, and historians of the ancient Mediterranean world

Ancient Mythology: East and West, a introductory-level comparative mythology course that relied on   reading primary sources in translation 
        
Archaeology of the Late Roman Empire, a mixed graduate/undergraduate-level thematic survey of monuments, sites, settlement patterns and archaeological approaches from Diocletian to Justinian 

Greek and Roman Epic, an upper-level undergraduate literature in translation course 
         
Ancient Mythology: East and West, an introductory-level comparative mythology course that relied on   reading primary sources in translation 

as a Teaching Assistant and guest lecturer at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University: 

2014

2013


2012 


2012

2011


2011



 2010


2009
Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul, under the instruction of Prof. Felipe Rojas.

Food and Drink in Classical Antiquity, under the instruction of Prof. Susan E. Alcock.


Guest presentation: 'The Pragmatics of Pilgrimage,' for Prof. Alessandra Ricci's Anatolian Civilizations III (Late Roman - Byzantine) at Koç University.

Teaching Assistant for Water, Culture, & Power, under the instruction of Prof. Ömür Harmanşah. 

Guest lecture: 'Byzantine Art and Archaeology,' for Prof. Amanda Lahikainen's Prehistoric to Renaissance Art at Rhode Island College. 

Guest lecture: 'Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Byzantium,' for Prof. John Marston's East Meets West: Archaeology of Anatolia at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University. 

Teaching assistant for Geofizz!: Archaeo-Geophysical Data Visualization, under the instruction of Prof. Margaret Watters.

Teaching Assistant for Food and Drink in Classical Antiquity, under the instruction of Prof. Susan E. Alcock. 

STUDENT RESEARCH SUPERVISED

2016 - 2017
Berger, Parker (BA Anthropology, 2018). “Analyzing an Archaeological Landscape in Eastern Serbia in a Geographic Information Systems(GIS) Environment,” an internship through the institutionally competitive Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at Florida State University 

Cross, Jim (MA Digital Humanities, 2018). Directed independent study (DIS), "Digital Archaeology," on digital archaeological initiatives, including innovative project recording applications and database developments for the Timok Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP) 

Juhasz, Julia (MA Classical Archaeology, 2017). “Crete in Transition: Visualizing Regional Patterns in the Late Bronze Age,” MA thesis second reader
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TEACHING INTERESTS (see also my teaching interests page)

TOPICAL 



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​REGIONAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL





​METHOD AND THEORY




​SKILLS


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LITERATURE, LANGUAGES, AND​ TRANSLATION
travel and communications; archaeology of early Christianity; monastic archaeology; food and drink in the ancient world; pilgrimage; city and country in the eastern Mediterranean; archaeology of the body; the late antique and medieval city; ancient mythology (classical or global); technology and engineering in the ancient world  

Anatolian archaeology; near Eastern art and archaeology; Romans in the eastern Mediterranean; Roman archaeology; late antique and Byzantine archaeology; archaeology of the Roman provinces, especially the eastern Mediterranean and southeast Europe; Pompeii; Troy  

archaeological survey; landscape archaeology; place theory; movement and connectivity in the Mediterranean; network theory; archaeology and the sacred; history of archaeological thought and practice; -izations; text and archaeology  

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for archaeologists (introductory and advanced); historical GIS; classics and the digital humanities


Latin and ancient Greek at the intro and intermediate level; translation and reading in translation courses in Greek and Latin epics (Homer, Vergil); Apuleius; Catullus; Petronius; Greek and Latin hagiography; travel accounts; Pausanias Periegesis; Egeria's Travels; Periplus Maris Erythraei 
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Introducing Archaeology of Turkey: State of the Field 2012 at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University

FIELD EXPERIENCE

2017
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​2015 - 2016


2015 - 2017

​2013 - 2015


2012


2008  - 2010


2010


2006

2006

2005
Co-Director, Timok Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP), Romuliana Gamzigrad, Zaječar, Serbia

Reconnaissance for SEEDD and TRAP at Romuliana/Gamzigrad in eastern Serbia
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Survey Team Leader, Mazi Archaeological Project, Greece

Trench Supervisor, Bryn Mawr Excavations at Tell Abraq, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates


Fieldwalker, Team Leader and Features Recording, Brown University Petra Archaeological Project, Umm Sayhoun, Jordan

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist, Avkat Archaeological Project, Mecitözü, Çorum, Turkey

Fieldwalker, Central Lydia Archaeological Project, Tekelioğlu, Manisa, Turkey

Excavator, Monte Polizzo Archaeological Project, Salemi, Sicily

Fieldwalker, Göksu Archaeological Project, Alahan, Mersin, Turkey

Survey and GIS intern, Hacımusalar Archaeological Project, Elmalı, Antalya, Turkey
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Brown University Petra Archaeological Project, 
Umm Sayhoun, Jordan (2012)
photo by Allison Mickel 


LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

TURKISH

ITALIAN

GERMAN

LATIN

ANCIENT GREEK
Spoken: Intermediate

Spoken: Basic

Spoken: Basic

Reading: Advanced

Reading: Advanced
Written: Basic

Written: Basic

Written: Basic

Written: Intermediate

Written: Intermediate
Reading: Basic

Reading: Intermediate

Reading: Intermediate
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