معرفی
Dr. Ioana A. Dumitru is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at The University of Sydney. Her research bridges the climate-environment-society nexus, focusing on responses to extreme climatic events, resource exploitation, and human-environment interactions across the Indian Ocean World, particularly in Arabia and East Africa.
Ioana is a digital landscape archaeologist employing GIS, remote sensing, and social network analysis to model ancient human-environment dynamics. Her work spans projects in Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Peru, Micronesia, Sudan, and the US.
- Current Research: Social resilience during the Late Antique Little Ice Age.
- Teaching: Courses in Social Archaeology, Human-Environment Interactions, and Digital Mapping.
Scientific Awards:
- 2024 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (Commendation), The University of Sydney
- 2014 Cornelia G. Harcum Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University
Her grants include the 2023 U21/ARUA Collaborative Award for 'Dynamic Coasts and Landscapes of Resilience' and a 2023 Provost’s CAPEX Fund grant for the 'Vere Gordon Childe ExoLab.'
