Who We Are

CHiL is a partnership of faculty, affiliated researchers and collaborators, and students that create a dynamic synergy for the study of historical landscapes.

Faculty

	James Newhard, Director of CHiL; Director of Archaeology Interests/Specializations: Aegean Prehistory, Late Antique/early Medieval eastern Mediterranean societies, landscape studies, Mediterranean archaeology, resiliency, geospatial modeling, lithic analysis
	R. Grant Gilmore III, Director of Historic Preservation and Community Planning Interests/Specializations: Comparative colonial archaeology and architecture, artifact analyses (statistical, chemical etc.), public archaeology, heritage management, African diaspora, Caribbean landscapes, and geographic information systems.
	Joanna Gilmore, Instructor of Anthropology African diaspora, hidden histories, community archaeology, museum interpretations/exhibition
	M. Scott Harris, Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences Coastal Plain and Continental Shelf stratigraphy, seafloor mapping, landscape evolution, geomorphology, habitat delineation
	Maureen Hays, Professor of Anthropology Old World archaeology, prehistoric art and archaeological methods, Prehistoric hunters and gatherers, microscopic lithic usewear analysis, early Lowcountry Euroamerican settlement
	Norm Levine, Director of the SC GIS Lab and the Hazards Center Surficial processes, natural and environmental hazards, geoarcheaology, geospatial informatics and visualizations
	Tara Prakash, Assistant Professor of Ancient Art Ancient Egypt, ethnicity and identity, representations of 'other'
	Peter Piccione, Associate Professor of History Ancient Egypt, the Near East, Nubia, and Cush; landscape archaeology; archaeological survey; satellite remote sensing; differential GPS mapping; and GIS
	Hayden Smith, Instructor of History Southeastern US colonial and antebellum history; 18th-19th century rice cultivation in the Carolina Lowcountry; human and environmental interactions.
	Allison Sterrett-Krause, Associate Professor of Classics Art and architecture of Greece and Rome; ancient topography and urban development; ancient technology and craft production; Roman social history; Roman North Africa; gender in antiquity.

Research Affiliates and External Collaborators

Hugh Elton, Professor of Classics and History, Trent University
Late Roman warfare, GIS applications in archaeology, ancient logistics

Niki Evelpidou, Professor of Geomorphology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Geomorphology, Geographic Information Systems

John Haldon, Emeritus Professor of History, Princeton University
Byzantine and environmental history

Foteini Kondyli, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
Landscape archaeology, Byzantine rural history, social identity, 3D visualizations

Giorgos Liakopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Ottoman taxation, Historical geography (GIS), Ottoman epigraphy and environmental history

Antonia Lombardi, CHiL Research Affiliate
Landscape archaeology methodology, complexity, social identity and formation

La'Sheia Oubre', CHiL Research Affiliate
Descendant communities, public history

Eric Poplin, Brockington and Associates
Cultural Resource Management, Southeastern US historic and prehistoric archaeology