Nicole Constantine

Stanford University

AIA Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellow

Research Topic: Sailing the Hellenistic Aegean: A Social Archaeology of Shipwrecks

Nicole is a PhD Candidate in Classical Archaeology at Stanford University. Her dissertation project explores the maritime archaeological record to understand how ships, sailors and exchange reshaped social and economic life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean. Her project explores the social world of Mediterranean ships, the rhythms of daily life lived out by sailors, and the active role that these historically obscure figures played in the making of the Hellenistic world. While in Greece with support from the AIA's Colburn Fellowship, she will study the galley assemblages from two Aegean shipwrecks, using these to catch a glimpse of the social dynamics of shipboard life during an era of profound sociopolitical change.