Amanda (Mandy) Porter
Dickinson College, Class of 2023
Mandy began studying Bronze Age Aegean iconography and Afro-Eurasian connections while taking Myth-Making in Afro-Eurasia, which inspired her archaeology thesis topic, The Iconography of Game Animals and Disease in Bronze Age Afro-Eurasia, in the spring of 2022. She further developed this work over the next year, before presenting her research at the first international workshop on Relations between the Indus and Aegean during the Bronze Age at the University of Oxford with ABASI support. Mandy was the sole undergraduate invited to present her work alongside specialists in archaeology, anthropology, art history, philology, linguistics, history, materials analysis, and medicine from top institutes around the world. Her work will be published as a chapter in the workshop proceedings with Archaeopress in late 2023 or early 2024, again supported by ABASI. Mandy has accepted an offer to attend the University of Oxford as a PhD student in the autumn of 2023.
Emily Angelucci
Dickinson College, Class of 2024
Emily Angelucci is interested in museum studies, art history, anthropology, and conservation. In spring of 2022, Emily was first trained by a conservation tech, and then designed and created custom enclosures for a collection of early issues of the American Journal of Archaeology that serve as part of the Mary Elisabeth Moser Memorial Library. This serves as one of many projects that Emily is undertaking to give back to her home institution and serve faculty and future students.
Dominique Sottosanti
Pennsylvania State University, Class of 2023
Dominique Sottosanti is an anthropology major with a focus in archaeology. In the summer of 2023, she will be participating in a study season for the Peak Sanctuary Project (SPS) at Stelida, Naxos. She will learn how to photograph, illustrate, and study Bronze Age Cycladic material culture. Her goal is to work in the Aegean and gain familiarity with professional practices and the materials that she hopes to help excavate in future field seasons.