Maria Eleni Chalari

University of Cincinnati

Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellow

Research Topic: Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology

Marialena is a third-year PhD candidate in Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati. She received her B.A. from the University of Ioannina, Greece, and her M.A. from Cincinnati. She has extensive field experience across the Aegean and most recently, she is a senior research team member of the Kokkino Vouno Survey and Excavation Project on Thera. Her dissertation research focuses on the Middle and early Late Bronze Age Cyclades, integrating survey, architectural, and ceramic evidence to reconstruct the development of Cycladic communities and their place within the wider Bronze Age Aegean.