Team
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Jeffrey Soles, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Mochlos Archaeological Project
Dr. Soles is a professor emeritus from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he taught for forty years. He is the codirector of the Mochlos Excavation Project, which involves the cleaning and excavation of a number of related sites on the island of Mochlos and its adjacent coastal plain, located just east of the Bay of Mirabello in eastern Crete. The project began in the summer of 1989, and the 2012 campaign hopes to complete the excavation of the House of the Lady with the Ivory Pyxis, which was found in the closing days of the 2010 excavation. He is the past recipient of several awards, include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William A. Stern Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as eight volumes dedicated to the findings at the Mochlos site from the Neopalatial period to the Hellenistic period.
Costis Davaras, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Mochlos Archaeological Project
Costis Davaras received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris where he wrote his dissertation on the Double Axe and Minoan Religion. He entered the Greek Archaeological Service in 1960, served in Crete as Epimeletes, and founded the east Crete Ephoreia in 1970, where he served as Director of Antiquities (Ephor) until 1990 (with a short hiatus in the 80s). As Ephor he installed a collection of antiquities at the Hagios Nikolaos Museum, excavated numerous sites, established many protected archaeological zones which are still protected from development today, and encouraged the return of American archaeologists to east Crete. In 1993 he was appointed a professor of Minoan Archaeology at the University of Athens where he taught until his retirement in 2000 and is now Professor Emeritus. He is a contributor to Mochlos publications and is Co-Editor with Soles of the Mochlos Publication Series.
Thomas Brogan, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of the Mochlos Archaeological Project
The director of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Dr. Brogan received his undergraduate degree in Classical Civilization at Wabash College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. He has been an active member of several excavations in east Crete during the past twenty years, primarily at Mochlos where he has been the assistant director since 1992. His research interests include Minoan material culture with particular emphasis on contextual and regional analysis. His publications include the pottery section of Mochlos IB: Period III. Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri.
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Ph.D.
Having received Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation on the Hellenistic pottery on the Athenian Acropolis, Dr. Vogeikoff-Brogan has held the position of the Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has done the majority of her archaeological fieldwork on Mochlos, she has published widely in a number of different areas. Her recent publications include the monograph “Mochos III: The Late Hellenistic Settlement” and the co-edited volume “Carl Blegen. Personal and Archaeologial Narratives.”
Mary Ellen Soles, Ph.D.
Cataloguer
Dr. Soles received her Ph.D. from Yale University with a dissertation on the sculpture of Aphrodite at Corinth. She served for many years asCurator of Ancient Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art where she was largely responsible for establishing its current collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. She is the author of a number of articles in the North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin including "Tradition and Innovation: A Statue of Aphrodite" (whose head she was able to restore from the Museum’s basement storerooms.) She has served as cataloger on the Mochlos Excavation and is a contributor to several Mochlos publications.-
Stephania Chlouveraki, Ph.D.
Site Preservation and Consolidation
Dr. Chlouveraki earned her degree in Conservation of Archaeological Material from the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens and completed her Ph.D. on the "Archaeology and Deterioration of Minoan Gypsum Rocks" at the Institute of Archaeology–University College London. She joined the staff at the Study Center just after it opened in 1997 and served as the Head of the Laboratory until April 2014. She now supervises site conservation projects for the Study Center. Since 1993 she has been involved in a number of mosaic and building conservation/training projects in Jordan, Syria, and Oman. In 2014 she joined the Conservation Dept. at T.E.I. of Athens as a lecturer.
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Douglas Faulmann, M.F.A.
Chief Architect and Artist of the INSTAP Study Center
Mr Faulmann received his Master’s of Fine Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1994. He has worked at Mochlos since 1990 as chief architect and archaeological illustrator and was appointed to the staff of the INSTAP Study Center in 1998 as an archaeological illustrator and later as member of its publication team. He is also a contributor to the Mochlos volumes and is responsible for most of the state plans and drawings of small finds in those volumes. As a member of the INSTAP Publication Team he travels widely throughout the Aegean to support the publication efforts of other projects.
Jerolyn Morrison, Ph.D.
Pottery specialist
Dr Morrison received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in studio ceramics with minors in anthropology and art history from Baylor University. During the summers, she would travel in either Mexico or Crete studying craft production and domestic cooking. Her second degree was a Masters in anthropology with two years post-bacchalaureate in geology at the University of Houston in Texas . She received a Ph.D. in Archaeology and Ancient History from the University of Leicester in 2013 with a dissertation on Minoan Cooking Ware. Since 2004 she has been working on the Mochlos publication team and is the author of an upcoming volume on the pottery of Mochlos during the Neopalatial Period. Last, but not least,, she is the founder and director of “Minoan Tastes,” a social enterprise and small business promoting the culinary history of ancient Crete which works together with a network of food experts, historians, potters, and archaeologists.
Jonathan Flood, Ph.D.
Science Advisor & Geoarchaeologist
Jonathan M. Flood received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, studying under the pioneer of the geoarchaeological discipline, Professor Karl Butzer. Dr. Flood’s main areas of research are: 1) environmental geochemistry & past societies; 2) paleoenvironmental & fluvial reconstructions; and 3) hydrologic controls and water management in antiquity. His published work has appeared in Geoarchaeology (2016), The Holocene (2015), International Encyclopedia of Geography (2017), as well as the latest volume on environmental history at Tikal (2015) published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Flood has worked in conjunction with archaeological projects in Central America, Turkey, Sicily, and of course Greece. He has been a member of the Mochlos Excavation Project since 2005 and has co-authored a manuscript with co-director Dr. Jeffrey S. Soles. In addition to research, Dr. Flood is an assistant professor at Frostburg State University, located in the beautiful Appalachian mountains of western Maryland.
Georgios Doudalis, M.A.
Operations Manager
Mr Doudalis graduated from the University of Crete and then completed his Master’s degree at the University of Sheffield in Archaeology with an emphasis on Aegean Studies. He has been working at Mochlos since 2004 as an excavator and trench supervisor. Currently he is a doctoral candidate at Klassische Institut für Archaeologie at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg in Germany, where he is preparing a dissertation entitled “Mochlos in the Protopalatial Period: A Sociocultural Approach to the Settlement during the Middle Minoan Period.” He is a member of the publication team and will be a co-author of the pottery book for Mochlos Volume V and the single author for Mochlos Volume VI.
Luke Kaiser, M.A.
Pottery specialist
Mr Kaiser was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, and attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) where Dr. Soles was his advisor. He received two Bachelor’s Degrees, one in the Interdepartmental Program in Archaeology with a minor in GIS and another with a double major in Classical Archaeology and English. Since 2012, he has been a trench assistant, a research assistant, and, most recently, a supervisor of pottery sorting and statistics as well as a pottery object cataloger. He is studying Early Minoan culture while pursuing his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Arizona, and he will co-author the pottery book for Mochlos Volume V and the Early Minoan book tentatively projected as Volume VII.
Angela Ratigan, M.A.
Registrar and Cataloguer
Ms Ratigan received a Bachelor's degree in art history and Classical Archaeology and a Master's degree in art history from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is now a doctoral candidate at the Klassische Institut für Archaeologie at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg in Germany, where her research focuses on 3D digital reconstructions and their use as illustrative and heuristic tools in archaeology. She has been involved in the archaeology of Minoan Crete since 2011, joining the Mochlos Archaeological Project in 2015 where she is the registrar and small-finds cataloguer. She is also interested in Minoan architecture and is undertaiking a digital reconstruction of the Minoan town at its peak in the LM IB period
Kathy Hall
Head Conservator of the INSTAP Study Center
Ms Hall graduated from Cardiff University in 1992 with a degree in archaeological conservation. She has worked for excavations in Greece (particularly Crete), the UK, Kenya and Turkey where she worked for four years at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. She also spent several years at the University Museum in Austin, Texas. Her particular interests include: investigative conservation of all types of excavated material, including material from underwater excavations, the stabilization of metallic artifacts, and storage issues for archaeological collections.
Chronis Papanikolopoulos
Photographer of the INSTAP Study Center
Mr Papanikolopoulos studied photography at the London College of Printing. He has been involved in archaeological photography since 1993, and his photos appear in numerous publications including those from Mochlos. His free time is devoted to taking experimental, fine art photos and developing ideas about photography as an art form.
Eleni Nodarou
Petrography Expert of the INSTAP Study Center
Dr. Nodarou earned her degree in Archaeology and Art History from the University of Athens and then moved to Sheffield (UK) where she received her M.Sc. in Environmental Archaeology (Geoarchaeology) and her Ph.D. in Ceramics Analysis. Her research interests comprise the analysis of ancient pottery from Crete extending in date from the Neolithic times to the Byzantine period. She is a contributor to the Mochlos Publication Series and is responsible for the petrographic analyses of Mochlos pottery.
Eleanor Huffman
Business Manager of the INSTAP Study Center
Ms Huffman came to Mochlos as one of Dr Soles’ undergraduate students in 1990 and worked as a trench assistant. She graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a double major in Classical Studies and English Language and Literature and has lived in Greece since 1994. In 1996 she began working for the INSTAP Study Center and was eventually appointed Business Manager of the Study Center. In this capacity, she handles the business office, including the IKA payments to site workers,the Center’s databases; she helps draw up the annual budget, and solves any problem that may arise during the course of the year. She is particularly interested in storage solutions and community outreach through informative site signs and school tours.
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Eleni Nodarou, Ph.D.
Ceramic Petrographer, INSTAP Study Center
Dimitra Mylonas, Ph.D.
Faunal expert, INSTAP Publication Team, Rethymnon
Katerina Papayiannis, Ph.D.
Faunal expert, National Museum, Paris
Tristan Carter, Ph.D.
Lithics expert, Associate Professor, MacMaster University
Floyd McCoy, Ph.D.
Specialist in bathymetry and geology, Professor, University of Hawaii
Evi Margaritis, Ph.D.
Floral analyst and paleobotanist, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology in Archaeology Research, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia
Maria Ntinou, Ph.D.
Paleobotanist, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Ph.D.
Metals expert, AGM Archeoanalisi, Bolzano
Sevi Triantaphyllou, Ph.D.
Physical anthropologist, Assistant Professor, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Polly Westlake, Ph.D.
Plaster conservationist, Cliveden Conversation, United Kingdom
Costis Frangiadakis
Site Preservation and Consolidation, Mochlos -
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Lucas Brown
Oberlin College -
Sarah Duncan
University of North Carolina at Greensboro -
Cassandra Dupont
Université Laval, Quebec -
Adam Godo
University of Ottawa -
Brianna Jenkins
University of North Carolina at Greensboro -
Rachel King
Stony Brook University -
Jessica Miller
University of North Carolina at Greensboro -
Kit Williams
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
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