Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim

Geoff joined the lab in 2015. He is currently working on multiple projects, including archaeobotanical assemblages from the sites of Khirbat Iskandar and Khirbat al-Balu'a in Jordan, as well as from Tel Abel Beth Maacah in Israel.

Johan Jarl

Johan joined the lab in 2017. He is currently working on phytoliths from Palaeolithic Armenia.

Madelynn von Baeyer

Madelynn defended her dissertation in 2018, which was titled Seeds of Complexity: An Archaeobotanical Study of Incipient Social Complexity at Late Chalcolithic Çadır Höyük, Turkey. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Harvard University Herbaria.

Philip Graham

Philip defended his dissertation in 2011, which was titled Ubaid Period Agriculture at Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey. He is currently an Associate Content Manager for Olympus Inspection and Measurement Systems in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Thomas Hart

Tom defended his dissertation 2014, which was titled Phytoliths, Starch Grains, and Emerging Social Complexity at Tell Zeidan, Syria. Tom is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Lucas Proctor

Luke defended his dissertation in 2021, which was titled Fueling Socio-Political Complexity: Examining Fuel Use and Fuel Economies During the Chalcolithic and Iron Ages of Northern Mesopotamia. Lucas is currently a Postdoctoral Research Assisant at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, where is the archaeobotanist for the UmWantWandel Project.