| Biographical Information | James received his B.A. in Classics and Archaeology at Stanford University in 2017. He is a PhD candidate in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World and his dissertation explores ordinary people’s experience of Roman Imperial rule in Late Antiquity by considering the impact of taxation on commerce and agricultural economies. James is a maritime archaeologist and has worked on shipwreck and harbor surveys and excavations in Italy, Turkey, and Greece. While at Penn, he studied ceramic petrography and has or is currently working on the analysis of samples of transport amphoras from harbor survey at Kekova Adası in southern Turkey, from the Marzamemi 2 shipwreck in Sicily, and from the Palatine East Excavations in Rome. In addition to presenting papers at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), he has co-published an article on underwater survey methodologies entitled “Toward Systematic Underwater Survey of Mediterranean Maritime Activity along the Southern Turkish Coast” in the Journal of Field Archaeology and a chapter on the volumetric analysis of amphoras from the 7th century Yassıada shipwreck in the edited volume Regional Economies in Action. |
