Dr. Matthew Buell

Biography

Matthew Buell obtained his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University at Buffalo, SUNY in 2014. His dissertation employed an integrated approach, using material remains, texts, and landscape data to examine and compare the socio-political and economic organization of Bronze Age polities in Alalakh and the Amuq Valley (Syria/Anatolia), Galatas in Upper Pediada (Crete), and Pylos in Messenia (Greek mainland). After completing his doctorate, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Trent University in the Department of Ancient History & Classics from 2014 to 2015, before joining Concordia University in fall 2015. Buell specializes in the material culture and history of ancient Greece and Rome, with recent research focusing on urbanization and city planning in the ancient world, particularly the recursive relationship between people and their built and unbuilt environments. Over the past 15 years, he has worked as an archaeologist in the Mediterranean, including archaeological work at the Late Roman site of Kourion in Cyprus in 2002. From 2005 to 2010, he served as a principal investigator for the Galatas Survey Project, a multidisciplinary regional survey project in Crete, and has been the Field Director at the Bronze Age site of Gournia for the last eight years. Buell has taught various classes related to ancient history and archaeology and has authored multiple publications on Minoan archaeology.

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