I’m an anthropological archaeologist interested in the relationship between people and their built environments, urbanism and the social dynamics of ancient cities, and the application of digital technologies for recording, analyzing and visualizing archaeological phenomena.

I received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto (2007) and have since held postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas, and with the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project at the University of Toronto.

My research focuses mainly on the early complex societies of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, especially Cyprus, although I’ve worked on projects in Greece, Jordan, Peru, Guatemala, the US and Canada.  I’m currently Co-director of the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, an investigation of the relationship between urban landscapes, interaction and social change in Late Bronze Age Cyprus (c. 1700-1100 BCE)

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, University of British Columbia (July 2022-present)

Assistant Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia (July 2013-June 2022)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations & Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto (Nov. 2012-June 2013)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies & Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas (2011-2012); Research Associate (Nov. 2012-present)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University; cross-appointed to Department of Anthropology (2010-2011)

Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Classics and Archaeology Intercollege Program, Cornell University (2008-2010)

• AMNE 170--Temples, Tombs, and Tyrants: The Archaeology of the Middle East, Greece, and Rome
• AMNE 312--The History of Ancient Egypt
• AMNE 371--Ancient Egypt:  Archaeology of the Land of the Pharaohs
• AMNE 372--The Archaeology of Ancient Iraq and Syria: Babylon and Beyond
• AMNE 376--Greek Art and Architecture
• AMNE 470--The Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece (Seminar in Classical Art and Archaeology)
• AMNE 472--The Archaeology of Ancient Cyprus
• AMNE 395/595--Practicum in Classical or Near Eastern Archaeology (Archaeological Field School in Cyprus)
• NEST 402/506--The Archaeology of Space and Place
• NEST 500--Interconnections in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Research Interests

• archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean & Near East (esp. Neolithic through Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean)
• spatial analysis of built environments and social interaction
• urbanism and the social dynamics of urban landscapes
• place-making, monumentality and power
• digital archaeology (esp. remote sensing, 3D modelling and XR/extended reality)
• emergence of social inequality
• politics of the past; cultural heritage management
• social theory in archaeology

Current Projects 

I’m Co-director of the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, a collaborative and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationships between urban landscapes, social interaction, and social change on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (or Late Cypriot period, c. 1650-1100 BCE).  This period saw Cyprus transform from a relatively insular, village-based, and largely egalitarian society to one with social classes, centralized systems of production and exchange, and extensive international contacts.  We’re trying to understand the central role that the island’s first cities had in these profound changes.  Our work focuses on two important urban centers, Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and the Maroni “urban cluster”, located in neighboring river valleys in south-central Cyprus.  The KAMBE Project uses a number of cutting-edge digital technologies and scientific methods to investigate and visualize these urban landscapes, including high-resolution geophysics, geoarchaeology, drone-based remote sensing, laser scanning, photogrammetry, and 3D modeling.  This collaboration with Prof. Sturt Manning of Cornell University has received substantial funding from the Social Sciences and Humanties Research Council (Canada) and the National Science Foundation (US), and I was awarded a new SSHRC Insight Grant in 2018 that will fund the project for the next five years.  In 2017 I was awarded a large Canada Foundation for Innovation grant that is allowing us to build infrastructure for digital archaeology at UBC, including the purchase of computers and software for our new computer lab, close- and mid-range laser scanners, a drone, a 3D printer and related equipment for use by KAMBE and other archaeological projects.  We have worked on an augmented reality app for use at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and are currently collaborating with the Centre for Digital Media and UBC’s Emerging Media Lab on a virtual reality model of the site that will be deployed in both teaching and research into how past peoples experienced their built environments.

I’m also a partner, along with other researchers and institutions in Canada and around the world, on a new $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant for the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project.  We’re attempting to create a framework for the integration and analysis of a wide range of data from several archaeological projects investigating the ancient Near East, focusing initially on the Orontes River Watershed of southeast Turkey and northwest Syria.  The project continues to build an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers who will use this framework to model and visualize the interplay of social, economic and environmental dynamics at various spatial and temporal scales in order to shed light on the rise and development of complex societies in this important region.  This research will also provide insight into a number of pressing contemporary issues, including the ecological impact of human activities, the socioeconomic and political impact of climate change, the long-term health consequences of human dietary practices and subsistence strategies, and the role of cultural conflict in affecting social and political change.  My own work will focus on the visualization of archaeological phenomena, particularly past built environments and landscapes.

There are funded research and training opportunities on both of these projects for graduate and undergraduate students.  In the summers I regularly run a UBC archaeological field school where students can join the KAMBE Project, working on excavation and geophysical survey at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios.  Some students have continued with the project and now work as trench supervisors.  The 2020-2022 field schools were canceled due to the pandemic, but the next field school is being planned for Summer 2023 (applications will be available through the Go Global website, starting in October 2022).  Please contact me if you’re interested in pursuing any of these opportunities at the BA, MA or PhD level.

Books

Fisher, K.D. 2023. Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology vol. 17. London: Equinox Press. (available at Equinox Publishing)

Creekmore, A. and K.D. Fisher (eds.). 2014. Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Contents). See review in American Journal of Archaeology.

Journal Articles

Andreou, G.M., A. Georgiou, T.M. Urban, K.D. Fisher, S.W. Manning, and D.A. Sewell. 2019. Reconsidering coastal archaeological sites in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Tochni-Lakkia and the south-central coastscape. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 382: 33-69.

Fisher, K.D., S.W. Manning and T.M. Urban. 2019. New approaches to Late Bronze Age urban landscapes on Cyprus: Investigations at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, 2012–2016. American Journal of Archaeology 123.3: 473-507 (available as open access article).

Leon, J.F, K.D. Fisher, S.W. Manning and M. Rogers. 2018. Interim Report on the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project: The 2011 Field Season. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1 (n.s.): 451-466.

Casana, J., A. Wiewel, A.C. Hill, A. Cool, K.D. Fisher, E. Jakoby-Laugier. 2017. Archaeological aerial thermography in theory and practice. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(4): 310-27.

Andreou, G.M., R. Opitz, S.W. Manning, K.D. Fisher, D.A. Sewell, A. Georgiou, T. Urban. 2017. Integrated methods for understanding and monitoring the loss of coastal archaeological sites: The case of Tochni-Lakkia, south-central Cyprus. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12: 197-208.

Urban, T.F., J.F. Leon, S.W. Manning, and K.D. Fisher. 2014. High resolution GPR mapping of Late Bronze Age architecture at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus. Journal of Applied Geophysics 107: 129-136.

Manning, S.W., G-M. Andreou, K.D. Fisher, P. Gerard-Little, C. Kearns, J. F. Leon, D.A. Sewell and T.M. Urban. 2014. Becoming urban: investigating the anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age complex, Cyprus. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.1: 3-32.

Urban, T.M., J.F. Leon, S.W. Manning, K.D. Fisher, C.M. Kearns and P.A. Gerrard-Little. 2013. Ground-penetrating radar investigations at Kalavasos Ayios-Dhimitrios offer a new look at Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Antiquity 87(338): http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/urban338/.

Fisher, K.D., J.F. Leon, S.W. Manning, M. Rogers and D. Sewell. 2011-2012 [pub. 2017]. The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project: introduction and preliminary report on the 2008 and 2010 field seasons. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 415-442.

Rogers, M., J.F. Leon, K.D. Fisher, S.W. Manning and D. Sewell. 2012. Comparing similar ground-penetrating radar surveys under different soil moisture conditions at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus. Archaeological Prospection 19(4): 297-305.

Fisher, K.D. 2009. Placing social interaction: an integrative approach to analyzing past built environments. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28: 439-57.

Fisher, K.D. 2009. Elite place-making and social interaction in the Late Cypriot Bronze Age. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.2: 183-209.

Fisher, K.D. 2006-07. The aegeanization of Cyprus at the end of the Bronze Age: an architectural perspective. In Cyprus, the Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Continuity and Change. T.P. Harrison (ed.). Special Issue of Scripta Mediterranea 27-28: 81-103.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

Fisher, K.D. 2022. Toward a social life of people and things on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. In Critical Approaches to Mediterranean Archaeology, edited by S.W. Manning, V. Kassianidou, and L. Crewe. London: Equinox.

Fisher, K.D. 2020. The materiality of ashlar masonry on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. In Ashlar: Exploring the Materiality of Cut-Stone Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, edited by M. Devolder and I. Kriemerman. Pp. 307-338.  Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain.

Manning, S.W. and K.D. Fisher. 2018. Locating the Late Bronze Age peasant in Cyprus. In Structures of Inequality on Bronze Age Cyprus. Studies in Honour of Alison K. South, edited by L. Hulin, L. Crewe and J. Webb. Pp. 121-138. Nicosia: Astrom Editions.

Fisher, K.D. 2018. Archaeology of Cyprus. In The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. 2nd ed. C. Smith (ed.). New York: Springer.

Fisher, K.D. 2014. Rethinking the Late Cypriot built environment: households and communities as places of social transformation. In The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, A.B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 399-416.

Fisher, K.D. 2014. The creation and experience of monumentality on Protohistoric Cyprus. In Approaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record. J. Osborne (ed.). Albany: SUNY Press. Pp. 355-381.

Fisher, K.D and A. Creekmore. 2014. Making ancient cities: new perspectives on the production of urban places. In Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies. A. Creekmore and K.D. Fisher (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-31.

Fisher, K.D. 2014. Making the first cities on Cyprus: urbanism and social change in the Late Bronze Age. In Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies Studies. A. Creekmore and K.D. Fisher (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 181-219.

Fisher, K.D. 2014. Investigating monumental social space in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: an integrative approach. In Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Interpretation of Historic and Prehistoric Built Environments. E. Paliou, U. Lieberwirth and S. Polla (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter. Pp. 167-202.

Fisher, K.D. 2006. Messages in stone: constructing sociopolitical inequality in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. In Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. E.C. Robertson, J.W. Seibert, D.C. Fernandez and M.U. Zender (eds). Calgary and Albuquerque: University of Calgary Press and University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 123-32.

Book Reviews

2015. Review of D. Maliszewski. Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Pottery from the Field Survey in Northwestern Cyprus, 1992–1999. Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project, Volume 1 (Oxford: BAR International Series 2547). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 373: 246-7.

2012. Review of J. Smith. Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 366: 90-2.

2009. Review of J. Smith (ed.), Views from Phlamoudhi, Cyprus (Boston: Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research vol. 63, 2008). Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.2: 25-6.

Recent Conference Papers

2019

Settlement Activity and Site Formation at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus: Evidence from Geoarchaeology. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego CA. Co-authors: R. Kulick (presenter), F. Berna (Nov. 23).

Cityscape interfaces: Comparative studies of long-term urban complexes in south-central Cyprus. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego CA. Co-authors: C. Kearns (presenter), G. Andreou, S.W. Manning, C. Fulton (Nov. 21).

More than entertainment? Exploring research applications in virtual reality. Computational Research on the Ancient Near East Project Annual Meeting, University of Toronto.  Co-author: J. Tari (March 18).

2018

Geoarchaeological research at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Denver CO. Co-authors: R. Kulick and F. Berna (Nov. 16).

Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project and Cyprus Dendroarchaeology Project. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus. Co-authors: S.W. Manning (presenter), G. Andreou, C. Kearns, C. Fulton, B. Lorentzen, N. Bakirtzis (June 16).

The materiality of ashlar masonry on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Invited presentation for ASHLAR: Exploring the Materiality of Cut Stone Masonry in the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Conference held at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (March 8).

2017

From duplex to courtyard house:  Re-assessing Bronze Age social change on Cyprus. Invited presentation for session in honour of Stuart Swiny. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston MA (Nov. 17).

New Approaches to Ancient Cities: The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, Cyprus. Invited presentation for Archaeology and the Humanities conference at Gonzaga University, Spokane WA (Oct. 21).

Integrating 3D into Scholarly Publications. Invited participant in Current Challenges in using 3D Data in Archaeology Forum at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Vancouver BC (April 1).

Acting (G)locally:  Monumental Place-making and Identity on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Invited paper presented in the Insulae Coniunctae: Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization session at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Toronto ON (Jan. 6).

2016

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project: 2016 Season. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Annual Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus. Co-authors: S.W. Manning, G. Andreou, C. Kearns, T. Urban (July 2).

Digital approaches to investigating ancient cities: The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project, Cyprus. Next steps in Digital Humanities: an Interactive Workshop, UBC, Vancouver (Feb. 25).

2015

Investigating Late Bronze Age urban landscapes on Cyprus: The 2015 season at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (Nov. 20).

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project: 2015 Season. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Annual Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus.  Co-author: S.W. Manning (June 27).

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project: Investigating Late Bronze Age urban landscapes in south-central Cyprus. Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and new Research Approaches to the Archaeology of Cyprus, Stockholm, Sweden (April 26).

Teaching an archaeology of space and place: Approaches, challenges, and prospects. Past Matters: Teaching History through Material Culture Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Mar. 6).

2014

3D Visualizations of Landscapes, Urban Settlements, and Architecture. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Co-author: S. Batiuk (presenter) (Nov. 20).

The 2013 and 2014 Seasons of the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project (Cyprus). American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Co-author: S.W. Manning (Nov. 22).

Investigating Late Bronze Age urban landscapes on Cyprus using terrestrial and aerial remote sensing. Age of Sensing: 5th International Conference on Remote Sensing and Archaeology, Duke University, Durham, NC (Oct. 13).

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project:  The 2014 Season. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Annual Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus.  Co-authors: S.W. Manning (presenter), J. Leon, T.M. Urban, C. Kearns  (June 28).

Differing Trajectories of Urbanism on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin TX (April 24).

A Digital Revolution? 3D Modeling of Built Environments and Landscapes Using Photogrammetry. Digital Perspectives on the Past: New Methods and Research in Digital Archaeology.  Symposium held at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Mar. 15)

2013

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project 2013 Season: New Assessments of Late Cypriot Cityscapes (Poster). American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Co-authors: Kearns, C., J.F. Leon, P. Gerrard-Little, T. Urban, S.W. Manning (Nov. 23).

The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project:  Large Scale Data Integration and Analysis on the Orontes Watershed.  American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD. Co-authors: S. Batiuk and D. Schloen (Nov. 22).

Digital Approaches to Ancient Cities:  the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project, Cyprus. Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World, Digital Classics Association Conference, SUNY Buffalo, NY (April 6).

Introduction to the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project. CRANE Workshop, University of Toronto. Co-author: S. Batiuk (Mar. 22).

GIS and Place-making in Late Bronze Age Cyprus:  Prospects and Challenges. Space, Place and Time: GIS Technology in Ancient and Medieval European History session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (Jan. 5).

2012

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project, Cyprus:  The 2012 Season. GIS and Remote Sensing in Archaeology session, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.  Co-authors: S.W. Manning and M. Rogers (Nov. 17).

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project:  The 2011 Season. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Annual Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus.  Co-authors: S.W. Manning (presenter), J. Leon, M. Rogers, T.M. Urban (June 16).

The creation and experience of monumentality on Protohistoric Cyprus. Invited paper for Approaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record, Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Annual Conference, University at Buffalo SUNY (May 12).

3D Visualization at Pompeii and Beyond (Roundtable Discussion). Invited participant.  University of Arkansas (April 24).

Approaches to 3D digital recording of an Early Classic temple façade at El Zotz, Guatemala. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. Co-authors: K. Simon, J. Cothren, L. Lippiello, R. Opitz (April 21).

The Impact of Special Purpose Institutions on the Future of Archaeology. Forum held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.  Invited representative for Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas (April 19).

Close-range photogrammetry vs. 3D scanning: Comparing data capture, processing and model generation in the field and the lab. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference, University of Southampton. Co-authors: A. Barnes, R. Opitz (presenter), K. Simon, L. Lippiello (March 27).

2011

New approaches to Late Cypriot cityscapes: Archaeogeophysics and LIDAR survey by the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project (poster). American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Co-authors: J. Leon, K. Kearns, P. Gerard-Little, S. Manning and M. Rogers (Nov. 18).

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, 2008-2011. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Annual Workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus (June 25).

Contextual monumentality, meaning and social interaction in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Invited paper for the BIG: Monumentality and Meaning in the Ancient World symposium, Program in Early Cultures, Brown University (February 26).

2010

Making places in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Invited paper for the Plenary Session of the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (Nov. 17).

Rendering Cuzco in Three Dimensions (poster). Institute of Andean Studies 50th Annual Meeting, UC Berkeley, CA. Co-authors: A. Vranich, S. Boots, C. Truong, A. Barnes and J. Cothren (January 7-10).

2009

3D laser scanning and photogrammetry in archaeology:  recording and visualizing architecture in the heart of the Inka Empire. Invited paper for Physics and Archaeology: the 101st Topical Symposium of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (Nov. 21).

The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project: investigating social transformation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Co-authors: S.W. Manning and M. Rogers (Nov. 19).

Rethinking the urban revolution: the view from Bronze Age Cyprus. Studies of the Production of Space in Ancient Cities symposium at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (April 24).

Selected Grants and Awards

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant for Computational Research on the Ancient Near East – CRANE: Large-scale Data Integration and Analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology; Co-investigator (PI: Timothy Harrison; 2018-24; $2.49 million CAD)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant for Investigating the Socio-environmental Dynamics of an Ancient Urban Landscape; Principal Investigator (2018-23; $276,338 CAD)

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for Exploring Archaeological Landscapes through Advanced Aerial Thermal Imaging; Co-applicant (Principal Investigator: J. Casana; 2017-20; $324,930 USD)

UBC Dean of Arts Research Award (2017)

Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund Grant for Building Infrastructure for Spatial Archaeometry and Visualization (2017-18; $185,406 CAD)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant for Creating and Training a Network of Digital Humanities Scholars on the Lower Mainland; Co-applicant (2014; $23,785 CAD)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant for Investigating Urban Social Dynamics Using High Resolution Archaeology; Principal Investigator (2014-16; $73,738 CAD)

UBC Digital Salon Accelerator Grant for Creating an Augmented Reality App for the Archaeological Site of Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus (2014-15; $5000 CAD)

Arts HSS Research Grant (University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts) for archaeological work at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus (2014; $3500 CAD)

Arts HSS Workshop & Visiting Speakers Grant (University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts) for Digital Perspectives on the Past: New Methods and Research in Digital Archaeology Symposium (2014; $2000 CAD)

Arts Undergraduate Research Award (University of British Columbia) for Analyzing and Visualizing Built Space on Bronze Age Cyprus Project (2014; $3000 CAD)

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for Mapping Ancient Cultural Landscapes Using Aerial Thermography; Co-Principal Investigator (2012-14; Award Ref. # HD-51590-12; $49,999 USD)

National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant for Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project; Co-Principal Investigator (2009-12; Awards # BCS-0917732 & 0917734; $168,208 USD)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-10; $81,000 CAD)

Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Award (2008)

Archaeological Institute of America Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship (2004-2005)

Caroline Barnes (MA, 2022). Monumental Stonework at Kition Kathari: A Spatial Analysis of a Late Cypriot Built Environment.
Graham Braun (MA, 2022). Evaluating Entanglements at Middle–Late Bronze Age Phylakopi: A Space Syntax Approach to the Pillar Rooms Complex and LH IIIA Megaron.
Rory MacLean (MA, 2022). Marginalised Mariners: Bronze Age Fishing in the Southern Aegean.
Joseph Burkhart (MA, 2021). The Byrsa’s Second Death: Reconstruction and Erasure in the Heart of Colonial Carthage.
Jem Tari (MA, CNAR 2019). Deploying Low Cost Virtual Reality for Archaeological Research.
Florencia Fustinoni (MA, CNAR 2018). The Egyptian Empire in the Levant through a Study of Space.
Drea Brake (MA, CNAR 2018). Excavating a Legacy: A Contextualizing Study of the Miniature Frescoes from the Court Complex at Knossos.