Elizabeth Robinson (M.A. Classical Archaeology, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004; B.A. Physics, Bowdoin College, 2003).
Elizabeth Robinson is a fourth year graduate student studying Classical Archaeology. Her M.A. thesis (Rural Settlement Patterns and Sanctuaries in the Middle Volturno Valley) allowed her to combine her interests in both pre-Roman Italy and Italic religion, while allowing for a thorough exploration of Samnite settlement patterns in the eastern part of Campania. Research from her thesis was presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the AIA.
Her fieldwork experience includes a season of excavations at Paestum (2003), and two seasons of fieldwork with the Upper Simeto Valley Survey (http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/?mode=project&id=294) (2006, 2007). Beginning in 2007 she will serve as a staff member for the Upper Simeto Valley Survey, in charge of collection, management and interpretation of GPS and GIS data.
She is primarily interested in the cultural and physical landscapes of Italy in the first millennium BC, and in the nature of Roman interactions with the other inhabitants of the Italian peninsula in this period, especially in Campania.
Her other interests include GIS and digital mapping. In 2005 she studied with Dr. Rob Witcher of Durham University in order to become familiar with ArcView and ArcGIS. She will spend the 2007/2008 academic year serving as the Acting Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC (www.unc.edu/awmc/); this will allow her to further explore her digital mapping interests.
E-mail: erobins@email.unc.edu
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