In this week’s blog post, we interview Anisa Mara, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Anisa takes us through her work studying Bronze Age pottery from legacy collections of excavations in Albania to understand community organization, mobility, and social diversification during a period of significant change in this region.
Monthly Archives: September 2023
Blog Post #83: Graduate Student Feature with Dora Gao
In this week’s blog post, we interview Dora Gao, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History (IPAH) at the University of Michigan, who takes us through their research on religious kinship, affect, and belonging in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on marginalized populations.
Blog Post #82: The Penestai of the Thessalians with Gino Canlas
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples series, Dr. Gino Canlas introduces us to the Penestai, a people belonging to the serf class that lived in the Thessalian plains.
Peopling the Past 