The CAST Community

Nick Bartos

Stanford University He/him The development of maritime economies and social communities across the Mediterranean and the western Indian Ocean during the Roman period. My dissertation investigates commercial relationships using archaeological signatures of exchange from representative port sites alongside GIS-based sailing models.

Benoit Berard

Université des Antilles, UMR 8096 ArchAm I worked the relation to space of the indigenous peoples in the Caribbean that include works with traditional dugout canoe builders and maritime experimental archaeology.

Alexandra Biar

CNRS - UMR8096 ArchAm My research focus on navigation of indigenous tradition in Mesoamerica, Central America and beyond by bringing together archaeological and ethnographic data.

Stephanie Blankshein

University of Southampton She/her Collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of archaeological and environmental datasets, with an emphasis on combining terrestrial and underwater datasets. This includes computational modelling of prehistoric seafaring through a least-cost approach.

Marisa Borreggine

Harvard University They/she

Helen Farr

University of Southampton She/her

Alberto Garcia Piquer

Autonomous University of Barcelona; Washington State University I am developing a 3-years project entitled "Modelling and simulating Hunter-Gatherer Seafaring in the Americas: ecology, society and watercraft technology in cold aquatic environments (HUGASEA)" in the framework of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Joe Genz

University of Hawaii Hilo He/him My main research focuses on the cultural revitalization of a wave-based system of navigation in the Marshall Islands.

Katie Jarriel

Purdue University She/her Small-world networks and community interaction in the Aegean Bronze Age

Shimona Kealy

Australian National University I am an archaeologist and palaeobiologist with a key interest in the early movements of people, cultures, and animals throughout the islands of the Asia-Pacific. In particular, the patterns of occupation & cultures in island communities over the last ~50,000 years in Wallacea, and the biological & ecological impacts of early human arrival on islands.

Justin Leidwanger

Stanford University He/him I work on Mediterranean mobilities, examining how past (and present) communities are shaped around and by their maritime spaces. Much of my current research and fieldwork centers on long-term histories of the entangled mobilities among fishers, migrants, traders, and travelers across the central Mediterranean.

Kate Lim

Freie Universitat Berlin She/her I'm working on a GIS-based risk and conservation assessment tool for islandscapes/maritime cultural landscapes. I am also interested in mapping the antiquity of marine fishing, aquafarming, and salt production.

Agni Mochtar

University of Naples "L'Orientale" She/her I study the Southeast Asian lashed-lug ship/ boatbuilding tradition.

Jerolynn Myazoe

University of Hawaii - Hilo She/her The research I am conducting is primarily focus on collecting oral histories from the Marshallese community on Hawai'i Island and in the Marshall Islands. The project centers on ancient and historic-era voyaging interaction systems with particular attention to the roles of women within these networks.

Alvaro Montenegro

Ohio State University He/him Environmental constraints on archaeological models with a focus on movement over water

Wesa Perttola

University of Helsinki He/him I am currently working on my PhD about ports and harbors in Southeast Asia during the early modern period. I constructed a sequential least-cost path sailing model that I use to study the periodicity of maritime trade in the region.

Crystal Safadi

University of Southampton She/her My research focuses on Bronze Age and Neolithic seafaring and maritime mobility modelling, primarily in the Mediterranean. In tandem I undertake research research focusing on the documenting and managing maritime cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.

Emma Slayton

Carnegie Mellon University She/her My research focuses on Bronze Age and Neolithic seafaring and maritime mobility modelling, primarily in the Mediterranean. In tandem I undertake research research focusing on the documenting and managing maritime cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.

Karl Smith

Oxford University He/him I am interested in navigation, sailing, and maritime links in prehistory. My doctoral research focused on voyages across the western English Channel during the Late Iron Age.

Shania Tamagyongfal

University of Hawaii Hilo She/her Documenting oral histories of Yapese voyaging. Highlighting the sociocultural aspects involved in the ancestral voyaging networks and how the exchanges took place in the significant roles of relationships that are still honored today. Using the indigenous knowledge of navigation/voyaging towards efforts in developing a framework to incorporate voyaging as a form of sustainable sea transport.

Sara Zaia

Harvard University She/her Long distance trade to Punt in pharaonic time.

Tromainne Joab

Alson Kelen

Kiki Kuijjer

Larry Raigetal

Darienne Day