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Dr. Alex Knodell is an Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Archaeology Program at Carleton College since 2014. He specializes in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern archaeology, focusing on landscape dynamics, interaction networks, and long-term social change between 1400–700 BCE, particularly in Greece. His book Societies in Transition in Early Greece (2021) synthesizes late Mycenaean to Archaic period transitions through network and spatial analyses.
- Education: PhD in Archaeology from Brown University.
Research spans intensive fieldwork in Greece (Mazi Plain, Small Cycladic Islands Project), Jordan (Brown Petra Project), and Guatemala. He employs GIS and network theory to study regional diversity, connectivity, and polity formation. Teaching includes courses on Mediterranean archaeology, ancient languages, and archaeological methods.
Key projects include:
- Mazi Archaeological Project – Exploring Attica-Boeotia border dynamics.
- Small Cycladic Islands Project – Diachronic analysis of uninhabited landscapes.
- Archaeology of College Hill – Brown University's campus-based fieldwork pedagogy.
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