Professor Ezra Zubrow, PhD
Director and Principal Investigator
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University at Buffalo
Professor, University of Toronto (SO)
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
zubrow@buffalo.edu
Research interests: Anthropological and Archaeological theory and method; social policy of heritage and disability; Nordic archaeology; ecology; simulation methods; demography; marginal cultural areas; Finland, Norway, England, Northeast
Agnė Čivilytė, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
Researcher, Lithuanian Institute of History
civilytea@gmail.com
Research interests: European Bronze Age; Technology and social development in prehistory; Social theories; Prehistoric warfare; Memory in archaeology; Cultural relations and identity in prehistory
Joseph Prego
PhD Candidate – University at Buffalo
Archaeologist/Environmental Specialist 2
Delaware Department of Transportation
jprego@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Historic archaeology, Delmarva Archaeology, Archaeology of African Americans, Mid-Atlantic Archaeology
Christopher Troskovsky
Associate Director
Assistant Director, Alternative Testing and Assistive Technology, Disability Resource Center SUNY Albany
PhD Candidate
cbtrosko@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Prehistory of the Baltic Basin, Complex Hunter Gatherers, Corded Ware Migration, Neolithization Dynamics, Archaeology of Liminal Frontier Zones, Complexity Theory, Path Dependency of Landscape Scale Intercultural Interaction, Quaternary Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology, Ontology of Archaeological Narrative and Epistemology of Archaeology Meta-Narrative
Jonathan White
Assistant Director, Alternative Testing and Assistive Technology, Disability Resource Center, SUNY Albany
PhD Candidate
jmwhite2@buffalo.edu
Research Interests: Accessibility, archaeology of the other, assistive technology, cultic archaeology, disability, Eastern Mediterranean archaeology (Cyprus, Egypt, Greece), exclusion, marginalization, material culture studies, urbanization
Kathleen (Kate) Wilson, M.Sc., M.A.
PhD Student, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Research Interests: Human/Landscape Interactions; Non-Christian/Christian Interactions; Religion; Folklore; GIS; Agent-based Modeling; Biological Archaeology; Early Medieval Scotland; Conversion Period Scotland; Museum Science; Museum Collections Management
Lab Alumni
Sarah Hoffman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor – University at Buffalo
sehoffma@buffalo.edu
Research interests: Environment and health risk; Globalization and Health; Place Attachment and Abandonment (topophobia and topophilia); Gender, Landscape, Folklore; Biological Anthropology; Archaeology; Paleopathology; Bioarchaeology, GIS computer-based mapping; Aerial Imaging; Aerial Thermography; Old Norse Epigraphy; Iceland; Scandinavia
Erika Ruhl, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
Adjunct Professor, Erie County Community College and Niagara County Community College
Research interests: Archaeological textiles, Concepts of Identity, Role Identity Theory, Design Theory, Pre-Modern Archaeology, Historic Archaeology, Finland, Crafting Processes, and Material Performance Characteristics, Public Education and Outreach
erikaruh@buffalo.edu
Lab Affiliates
Andre Costopoulos, PhD
Vice-Provost and Dean of Students, University of Alberta, Canada
dosdean@ualberta.ca
Aleksandr Diachenko, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine
adiachenko@iananu.org.ua
Research interests: Eastern European Archaeology; Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Systems in the Ukraine
Sarah Elder, PhD
Professor, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo
selder@buffalo.edu
Research interests: Documentary film production and studies; ethnographic media; ethnography; visual anthropology; emerging interactive documentary; nonfiction ethics; collaborative and participatory media practices; Alaska Native communities; Indigenous heritage and sovereignty with a focus on the practices and ethics of filming across cultural and social boundaries
Caroline Funk, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
cfunk@buffalo.edu
Research interests: Human decision-making in the context of environmental influence and impact: cognitive archaeology and landscape approaches in prehistoric, historic contact, and historic eras; hunter-gatherers in coastal landscapes: Aleutian Islands, Yukon – Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska, central Portugal; oral history, ethnohistory, settlement pattern analysis, faunal analysis, GIS, statistics
Hans Harmsen,PhD
Senior Researcher
Curator, National Archaeological Museum, Nuk, Greenland
hansharm@buffalo.edu
Research interests: Human-natural systems; Environmental uncertainty; Coastal archaeology; Industrial heritage; Circumpolar Arctic; GIS and predictive modeling; Disability advocacy
Greg Korosec, PhD
Senior Researcher
Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management, Laramie, Wyoming
korosec@buffalo.edu
Sanna Lipkin, PhD
Research Assistant Professor – University at Buffalo
Academy research fellow at University of Oulu Finland
sanna.lipkin@oulu.fi
Research interests: Childhood archaeology, Textile archaeology, Post-medieval archaeology, Funerary archaeology, Childhood in the past
Torill Christine Lindstrøm
Professor, Department of Social Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway
torill.lindstrom@uib.no
Knight of the White Rose of Finland
Milton Nuñez, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of Oulu, Finland
nunez.milton@gmail.com
Jari Okkonen, PhD
Adjunct Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
Lecturer, University of Oulu Finland
etunimi.sukunimi@oulu.fi
Florin Pendea, PhD
Senior Researcher
Associate Professor, Lakeland University, Ontario, Canada
ifpendea@lakeheadu.ca
Research Assistants
Djaliatou Barry
Undergraduate Research Assistant
djaliato@buffalo.edu
Current Project: Archaeothanatology Research Project
Michelle Li
Undergraduate Research Assistant
mli77@buffalo.edu
Current Project: Movement of Corded Ware technology in Eastern Europe (Baltic Basin)
Sadie
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kratt
Undergraduate Research Assistant