Classics and Archaeology at the AIA Annual Meeting

Brock Classics and Archaeology will be well represented in at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, hosted January 7-10 in San Francisco, CA.

Carrie Murray will discuss here work at Pantelleria in Session 2G: From Punic to Roman.

Fieldwork Report: Excavations at the Lago di Venere, Pantelleria (Italy)
Carrie Murray, Brock University, Eóin O’Donoghue, Brandeis University, Kate Kreindler, University of Virginia, and Maxine Anastasi, University of Malta

Elizabeth Greene’s Presidential panel will consider the impact of ancient shipwrecks on the history of the Mediterranean.

Session 4B: A History of the Mediterranean in Six Shipwrecks (Workshop) [HYBRID]
Organizer(s): Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University
Panelists: Lorenz Baumer, University of Geneva, Angeliki Simosi, Ephorate of Underwater Archaeology, Greece, Deborah Carlson, Texas A&M University, Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University, William Murray, University of South Florida, Harun Ozdas, Dokuz Eylul University, and Cemal Pulak, Texas A&M University

The research of faculty, students, and former students will be visible at the poster session.

2J: Poster Session #1
Finding Shipwrecks: Archaeological and Environmental Variables for Predictive Modeling in the Eastern Mediterranean
Cassidy J. Robertson, AIA Niagara Peninsula Society

5K: Poster Session #2
The Corrupted Sea: An Archaeological View of Maritime Plastics in Southeast Sicily
Sophia Wu, Stanford University, Nicole Constantine, Stanford University, Elizabeth Greene, Brock University, and Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University

The Materiality of Contemporary Displacement across the ‘Calabrian Route’
Michelle Heeman, Stanford University, Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University, and Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University

Casting Iron Objects from the Marzamemi 2 “Church Wreck”: Evidence for a Navis Lapidaria?
Robert L. Muñiz, Stanford University, Justin Leidwanger, Stanford University, Elizabeth S. Greene, Brock University, and Andrea Gobbi, Acrobatica Group

Just Another Pretty Face? Using Comparative Analysis to Explore the Role of Female Symposiasts in Red Figure Vase Paintings
Madison Poole, Brock University

View the full preliminary program here. We hope to see you in San Francisco, or joining some of the hybrid sessions online.

2026 Annual meeting in San Francisco poster