SAS Student Ambassadors
The SAS Student Ambassador would be a part of our new professional development and outreach programs. This position will provide invaluable opportunities for students to learn how to take initiatives for advancing our profession through collaboration with other students and senior scholars. If you are interested, please send a brief statement about your interests and how you would like to get involved in our outreach programs and/or other activities, along with a CV, to
Introducing the SAS Student Ambassador Program
Program Description
The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) wants to help create the next generation of leadership in archaeological sciences by selection of SAS Student Ambassadors. The SAS Student Ambassador would be a part of our new professional development and outreach programs. This position will provide invaluable opportunities for students to learn how to take initiatives for advancing our profession through collaboration with other students and senior scholars. SAS Board members will support student-led activities with varying capacities.
Eligibility
Any student members of SAS, including undergraduate and graduate students in any country.
Activities
You can propose any activities that help to advance and promote archaeological sciences, including, but not limited to:
• Organize regional conferences and workshops
• Organize symposia and forums at international conferences, such as the SAAs
• Participate in membership recruitment initiatives
• Assist in developing bulletins and social media
Board members will assist your proposed activities in various aspects, including funding.
Terms
One-year term, but renewable contingent upon the decision of the Executive Board.
How to apply
Send a brief statement about your interests and how you would like to get involved in our outreach programs and/or other activities, along with a CV, to Tatsuya Murakami (
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Alana Pengilley, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin.
Alana Pengilley is an archaeology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include the application of geochemical techniques to archaeological and geological assemblages to study
past trade and exchange systems and how they impacted inter and intra-regional community interaction. Her current research is focused on understanding the lithic economy of the Preclassic Lowland Maya, with a focus on the procurement and distribution of chert utilitarian tools. She is currently developing a methodology of the sourcing of Mesoamerican chert artifacts that employes geoarchaeological techniques, primarily focused on petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical methods. This research is currently supported by grants from the Geological Society of America, The Society for American Archaeology, and the University of Texas.
Ahana Ghosh, Archaeological Sciences Centre, Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar; email Ahana
Ahana Ghosh is a doctoral scholar and teaching assistant at the Archaeological Sciences Centre, under Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Previously she also held an Early Career Researcher position in the Rewriting World Archaeology program at Durham University and Antiquity. She is using scientific tools like lipid residue analysis to understand the ancient foodways of the Harappan culture. Her work also focuses on the concept of the culinary landscape and different aspects of realities and representations of food. Before joining IITGN, she held a position as Visiting Researcher at Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden. Ahana has been awarded the Student Research Support Award by The Society of Archaeological Sciences for conducting a substantial part of her doctoral research. Recently, she has also been nominated as a Fulbright-Nehru doctoral research scholar for the year 2023 -2024.
Iride Tomažič, Department of Anthropology, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, 610 E University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Iride Tomažič is a PhD candidate in Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Prior coming to Michigan, she earned a MA in Archaeology at the University of Cardiff, Wales and a BA in History at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. She has conducted extensive fieldwork (research and CRM) and laboratory work in continental Europe, the UK, Peru, and North America. Her research interests include human/environment/animal relationships in relation to technological changes. Her current research examines the impacts of metallurgy on communities, their animals, and the environment by tracking changes over time from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age in the Southern Carpathian Basin with ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS techniques.
Panagiotis Koullouros, PhD candidate (Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) – The Cyprus Institute).
Panagiotis Koullouros PhD candidate (Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) – The Cyprus Institute) Panagiotis is a PhD candidate in Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC). He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Queen Mary University of London (2017) and his Master’s degree in Environmental Archaeology from the University of Reading (2018). His research focuses on the study of charcoal materials from Greece and Cyprus during the 1 st Millennium BCE. He is interested in the reconstruction and evolution of past vegetation cover in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean during this period with emphasis on its impact on human societies and their practices. Research interests: Anthracology, 1 st Millennium BCE, Eastern Mediterranean, Paleoclimate, Climate Change and Human Societies. FB: Panagiotis Koullouros (https://www.facebook.com/pkoullouros); X: Panagiotis Koullouros/ @PanKoull (https://twitter.com/PanKoull).
Anna Karligkioti, Science & Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC), the Cyprus Institute.
Anna Karligkioti is a Ph.D. candidate in Bioarchaeology at Science & Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC), the Cyprus Institute. In her research, she examines the interplay of social disparities and health inequality in ancient mainland Greece through the study of human skeletal remains by applying a biocultural approach. Her PhD aims to explore social divisions diachronically, as these are expressed through differentiations in health, diet, (physiological and mechanical) stress and activity patterns among and within cemeteries in Attica and Thebes. Additionally, she employs biodistances to reconstruct past mobility and kinship patterns spatially and temporally. People experience life in a variety of ways. Thus, with her research Anna aims to shed light on a rather oversimplified and often misleading image we have regarding the people of the Greco-Roman world and give voice to the silenced people of Classical antiquity such as women, children and people from lower social strata.
Gavriela Logothetou, PhD Candidate, Laboratory of Archaeometry (University of the Peloponnese)
Gavriela Logothetou is a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Archaeometry at the University of the Peloponnese. She studied Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed her BSc in Science for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the archaeometallurgical characterization of oxidized metal artifacts from the Early to Late Byzantine period in the Peloponnese, utilizing both conventional and non-conventional (e.g., TEM) analytical techniques and data science. Her aim is to trace trade influences and technological developments of ancient metalworking practices in the Peloponnese across this timeline. Recently, she is also applying electron-microscopic techniques for the archaeomagnetic dating of ancient ceramics at the nanoscale.