Trakadas, Athena (Dr.)
Athena Trakadas is a maritime archaeologist focusing on ancient marine resource exploitation and coastal and riverine landscapes, as well as natural-cultural heritage management. Athena directs long-term research projects in Morocco, and has led and conducted archaeological fieldwork in Montenegro, Italy, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Türkiye, Greece, Germany and Denmark. She is Senior Researcher at the Viking Ship Museum (Denmark), External Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, and Editor of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. She co-founded and co-chairs the UN-partner Ocean Decade Heritage Network NGO. She serves on the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology’s Executive Board, and the Advisory Boards of the Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (Türkiye) and Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego (USA). She has a long-standing relationship with the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection on the Underwater Cultural Heritage as an expert trainer and member of its UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology and Accredited NGOs, and as an Expert Consultant to its Scientific and Technical Advisory Board.
Tromp, Heimerick (Dr.)
Dr. H.M.J. Tromp (1950) is cultuurhistoricus, buitenplaatsdeskundige en oud-wetenschappelijk medewerker van de Stichting tot behoud van Particuliere Historische Buitenplaatsen (1984-2010). Hij promoveerde in 2000 op de introductie van de Landschapsstijl in Nederland.
Turner, Daniel R. (Dr.)
Daniel R. Turner holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alabama (2010) with specialisations in medieval history and the archaeology of complex societies. He received an M.Phil. in Archaeological Research from the University of Cambridge (2012) after completing a dissertation on comparative labour costs of early medieval earthworks in the British Isles. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a Staff Archaeologist for the cultural resource management firm, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI), directing more than 60 surveys and excavations across the south-eastern U.S. In 2016, he joined the ERC-funded SETinSTONE project as a PhD candidate within the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, continuing with the project as a postdoctoral researcher in early 2020.
Twiston Davies, Huw (Dr.)
Huw Twiston Davies was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi-project The Walking Dead at Saqqara, The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2018–2022), and was additionally Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester 2020–2021. Twiston Davies studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he received his doctorate in 2018.
Urbani. Bernardo (Dr.)
Bernardo Urbani is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Anthropology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in Caracas, Venezuela. Currently, he also is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research/German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for conducting this study and was the recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Primatologists and the Martha J. Galante Award of the International Primatological Society. His research interests are primate cognitive and behavioral ecology, history of primatology, archaeoprimatology/ethnoprimatology, and primate conservation.
Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der (Dr.)
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof is a freelance consultant, researcher and editor known as the Overdressed Archeologist & Editor. In addition to publishing half a dozen books with us, she frequently collaborates with Sidestone Press doing both copy editing, book design and our social media marketing.
Valamoti, Soultana Maria (Prof. dr.)
Soultana Maria Valamoti is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published several books and edited volumes as well as over 100 articles. Her research interests focus on human-plant interactions, anthropogenic landscape and vegetation change, ancient food, ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology. She is director of the Departmental lab, LIRA, as well as the PlantCult laboratory at CIRI at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has supervised a large number of MA dissertations and PhDs and has engaged in several outreach activities disseminating archaeobotanical results for the public.
Trakadas, Athena (Dr.)
Athena Trakadas is a maritime archaeologist focusing on ancient marine resource exploitation and coastal and riverine landscapes, as well as natural-cultural heritage management. Athena directs long-term research projects in Morocco, and has led and conducted archaeological fieldwork in Montenegro, Italy, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Türkiye, Greece, Germany and Denmark. She is Senior Researcher at the Viking Ship Museum (Denmark), External Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, and Editor of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. She co-founded and co-chairs the UN-partner Ocean Decade Heritage Network NGO. She serves on the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology’s Executive Board, and the Advisory Boards of the Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (Türkiye) and Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego (USA). She has a long-standing relationship with the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection on the Underwater Cultural Heritage as an expert trainer and member of its UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology and Accredited NGOs, and as an Expert Consultant to its Scientific and Technical Advisory Board.
Tromp, Heimerick (Dr.)
Dr. H.M.J. Tromp (1950) is cultuurhistoricus, buitenplaatsdeskundige en oud-wetenschappelijk medewerker van de Stichting tot behoud van Particuliere Historische Buitenplaatsen (1984-2010). Hij promoveerde in 2000 op de introductie van de Landschapsstijl in Nederland.
Turner, Daniel R. (Dr.)
Daniel R. Turner holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alabama (2010) with specialisations in medieval history and the archaeology of complex societies. He received an M.Phil. in Archaeological Research from the University of Cambridge (2012) after completing a dissertation on comparative labour costs of early medieval earthworks in the British Isles. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a Staff Archaeologist for the cultural resource management firm, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI), directing more than 60 surveys and excavations across the south-eastern U.S. In 2016, he joined the ERC-funded SETinSTONE project as a PhD candidate within the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, continuing with the project as a postdoctoral researcher in early 2020.
Twiston Davies, Huw (Dr.)
Huw Twiston Davies was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi-project The Walking Dead at Saqqara, The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2018–2022), and was additionally Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester 2020–2021. Twiston Davies studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he received his doctorate in 2018.
Urbani. Bernardo (Dr.)
Bernardo Urbani is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Anthropology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in Caracas, Venezuela. Currently, he also is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research/German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for conducting this study and was the recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Primatologists and the Martha J. Galante Award of the International Primatological Society. His research interests are primate cognitive and behavioral ecology, history of primatology, archaeoprimatology/ethnoprimatology, and primate conservation.
Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der (Dr.)
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof is a freelance consultant, researcher and editor known as the Overdressed Archeologist & Editor. In addition to publishing half a dozen books with us, she frequently collaborates with Sidestone Press doing both copy editing, book design and our social media marketing.
Valamoti, Soultana Maria (Prof. dr.)
Soultana Maria Valamoti is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published several books and edited volumes as well as over 100 articles. Her research interests focus on human-plant interactions, anthropogenic landscape and vegetation change, ancient food, ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology. She is director of the Departmental lab, LIRA, as well as the PlantCult laboratory at CIRI at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has supervised a large number of MA dissertations and PhDs and has engaged in several outreach activities disseminating archaeobotanical results for the public.
