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SARAH CRAFTarchaeologist, 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
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT
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2019
2017 - 2018 2015 - 2017 2012 - 2013 2011 |
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. Summer Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. |
EDUCATION
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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
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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. 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
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2020
2018 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
- 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 Trépanier, University of Mississippi
- Monastic Landscapes of the Mazi Plain, a collaborative project with Dr. Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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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.
“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
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
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2019 - 2020
2017 - 2018 2011 - 2012 2011 - 2012 2011-2012 2011 2010 - 2011 2010 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. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate I: The Sheridan Teaching Seminar. |
CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIA ORGANIZED
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2017
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:
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2018
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:
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2019
2017 2016 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:
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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
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2016 - 2017
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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. |
TEACHING INTERESTS (see also my teaching interests page)
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TOPICAL
REGIONAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY SKILLS 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 |
Introducing Archaeology of Turkey: State of the Field 2012 at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University
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FIELD EXPERIENCE
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2017
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 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 |
Brown University Petra Archaeological Project,
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LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
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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 |
