Field School Instructors and Project Leaders

	Gary D. Farney is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. His research focus is on ancient Italian group identity, including the Sabines, and the formation of Roman identity from the various Italic groups. Before this field school, he operated the Rutgers Summer Program to Greece for six years (2005-2010) https://rutgers.academia.edu/GaryFarney.
	Dylan Bloy has a PhD in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, and he is currently a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has not only participated in a half-dozen excavations in Italy and Greece, but has taken a leadership role in several (including the villa excavations at Ossaia de la Tufa in Cortona). https://brooklyn-cuny.academia.edu/DylanBloy
	Candace Rice has a PhD in Roman Archaeology from the University of Oxford and is Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics at the Joukowsky Institute at Brown University. She has worked in a supervisory role on excavations in Tuscany, Molise and Lazio, as well as in France and Tunisia. Her research focuses on maritime trade and regional economic development in the Roman Mediterranean. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/CandaceRice
	Tyler Franconi holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford in Roman archaeology. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute at Brown University. He has excavated at a number of sites in Italy, Tunisia, and the USA and specializes in the documentation of archaeological finds. His research focuses on the economic and environmental history of the Roman Empire. https://oxford.academia.edu/TylerFranconi
	Amanda Klein, a history teacher at Saddle Brook High School, received her MA in History from Rutgers-Newark. She has received a grant from the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics to continue doing conservation work at Vacone (2014). She also has received a Bergen County (NJ) Historic Preservation Award for her work in Preservation Education (2016). Amanda is an alum of the Rutgers Field School from 2012 and 2013, and she has been involved with the UST Project since then.
	Devin L. Ward has a MPhil in Biological Anthropological Science from the University of Cambridge. She was an intern on the field school in 2013, writing her BS (hons) thesis on the human skeletal remains, and returned in 2015 to continue osteological and zooarchaeological work. Devin is currently a PhD student in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto studying variation in the modern human inner ear, and is also associated with the bioarchaeological project “Death on the Rock” in Gibraltar (UK). https://utoronto.academia.edu/DevinWard Devin is an alum of the Rutgers Field School from 2013, and has returned to Vacone since 2015.
	James Page is a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh. He has excavation experience at the sites of Trellech, Vindolanda, and Grumentum, and has worked with the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project at Vacone since 2015. His main research interests include the archaeology of the Roman rural economy and the Upper Tiber Valley.
	Chelsea Blake has a master’s degree in Conservation of Archaeological and Museum Artefacts at the University of Durham. Holding degrees in History, Classics, and Archaeology she has worked as a conservation intern with York Archaeological Trust on projects such as the Jorvik Viking Center, the Swash Channel Wreck, Star Carr, and the HMS Colossus. Chelsea is an alum of the Rutgers Field School from 2014.
	Andrew McLean has an MScR Degree in Classics from the University of Edinburgh.He is currently a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the Roman economy. He has supervised at a number of research excavations with different projects in Italy, and has worked for commercial archaeology units in the UK.
	Alessandra Ricci is finishing her master's degree at the university of Siena where she worked and studied at the Technology Lab for Medieval Archaeology (L. I. A. A. M.). She took her bachelor degree in Christian and Late Antique Archaeology at the University of Bari. She has worked as trench supervisor in some classical and medieval excavations around Italy,and assists with survey and digital recording operations at Vacone.
	Erin Irwin has an undergraduate degree in History and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, and a Masters in Fine and Decorative Art and Design with distinction from Sotheby’s Institute of Fine Art. She has worked at Vacone for multiple seasons, and has also taken part in the Caspian Gates excavation located in Dariali Gorge, Georgia.
	Giulia Bellato has an undergraduate degree in Ancient and Medieval History from the University of Edinburgh, and is working on her PhD in Medieval History from Cambridge University. Giulia has taken part in the excavations at Vacone since 2015.
	Lauren MacGregor has a masters degree in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Her masters is research focused on the room decoration (mosaics, wall paintings, stuccoes) of the villa at Vacone.