Dupont, Catherine (Dr.)
Catherine Dupont is an archaeomalacologist and a senior researcher in the CNRS (French national centre for scientific research). She works at the Research Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History (CReAAH) at the Rennes University (France). Her primary research specialism is marine invertebrate and in shell-middens from prehistoric fisher-hunter-gatherers, with a focus on the Atlantic European coasts. She develops methods in the field on shell-middens and analyses on shells in a diachronic perspective from the past to the present day, highlighting the diversity of their uses (food, ornament, dyeing, wall decoration, tools, symbolic items, etc.).
Düring, Bleda S. (Prof. dr.)
Bleda S. Düring, Leiden University (The Netherlands), Faculty of Archaeology. Bleda’s research includes the archaeology of early social complexity and early imperialism in West Asia. He is currently directing field work in Cyprus: at Chlorakas-Palloures and in Oman: the Wadi Jizzi Archaeological Project.
Dusseldorp, Gerrit L. (Dr.)
Gerrit L. Dusseldorp is a Stone Age archaeologist focussing on Pleistocene societies in both Europe and Southern Africa. His PhD work on Neanderthal foraging behaviour was co-supervised by Prof. Corbey. He currently directs work on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition Umhlatuzana rockshelter, South Africa. He is also involved in the multidisciplinary project “Liveable Planet” to develop strategies to develop more sustainable human societies. He is currently appointed as associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University and as senior research fellow at the Paleo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg.
Eberhardt, Gisela (Dr.)
Gisela Eberhardt is a project manager for the joint research project “The Iranian Highlands. Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin and an editor in the editorial department at the German Archaeological Institute’s (DAI) head office. She holds a PhD in archaeology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was one of the managing editors of Edition Topoi.
Ebrahimiabareghi, Setareh (Dr.)
Setareh Ebrahimiabareghi completed her undergraduate studies at Sistan and Baluchistan National University in Zahedan, Iran, and subsequently obtained a master’s degree from Deccan College in Pune, India. She earned her PhD in the Department of Prehistory at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she conducted her research from 2018 to 2022. Currently, she serves as a research assistant at the University of Bern. Her primary research focus is on the Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age of Western Asia.
Eckert, Kenneth (Dr.)
Dr. Ken Eckert is Assistant Professor of English at Hanyang University (ERICA), Ansan, Korea, where he teaches undergraduate courses in English literature and graduate-level composition theory. He studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (PhD, 2011), with a dissertation in Chaucer and medieval romance; Memorial University of Newfoundland (MA, 2001), with a thesis and translation of Beowulf; and Concordia University of Edmonton (BA, 1990).
Egbers, Vera (Dr.)
Vera Egbers is an archaeologist specialized in ancient Western Asia with research interests in subjectivation processes, sensory archaeology, architecture and the built environment, feminist approaches, and archaeology of modernity. She studied in Berlin (Freie Universität), Istanbul (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), and Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and was later a visiting fellow at the Department of Anthropology in Harvard as well as a junior fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Studies (RCAC/ANAMED) of Koç University in Istanbul.
Dupont, Catherine (Dr.)
Catherine Dupont is an archaeomalacologist and a senior researcher in the CNRS (French national centre for scientific research). She works at the Research Center in Archaeology, Archaeosciences, History (CReAAH) at the Rennes University (France). Her primary research specialism is marine invertebrate and in shell-middens from prehistoric fisher-hunter-gatherers, with a focus on the Atlantic European coasts. She develops methods in the field on shell-middens and analyses on shells in a diachronic perspective from the past to the present day, highlighting the diversity of their uses (food, ornament, dyeing, wall decoration, tools, symbolic items, etc.).
Düring, Bleda S. (Prof. dr.)
Bleda S. Düring, Leiden University (The Netherlands), Faculty of Archaeology. Bleda’s research includes the archaeology of early social complexity and early imperialism in West Asia. He is currently directing field work in Cyprus: at Chlorakas-Palloures and in Oman: the Wadi Jizzi Archaeological Project.
Dusseldorp, Gerrit L. (Dr.)
Gerrit L. Dusseldorp is a Stone Age archaeologist focussing on Pleistocene societies in both Europe and Southern Africa. His PhD work on Neanderthal foraging behaviour was co-supervised by Prof. Corbey. He currently directs work on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition Umhlatuzana rockshelter, South Africa. He is also involved in the multidisciplinary project “Liveable Planet” to develop strategies to develop more sustainable human societies. He is currently appointed as associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University and as senior research fellow at the Paleo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg.
Eberhardt, Gisela (Dr.)
Gisela Eberhardt is a project manager for the joint research project “The Iranian Highlands. Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin and an editor in the editorial department at the German Archaeological Institute’s (DAI) head office. She holds a PhD in archaeology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was one of the managing editors of Edition Topoi.
Ebrahimiabareghi, Setareh (Dr.)
Setareh Ebrahimiabareghi completed her undergraduate studies at Sistan and Baluchistan National University in Zahedan, Iran, and subsequently obtained a master’s degree from Deccan College in Pune, India. She earned her PhD in the Department of Prehistory at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she conducted her research from 2018 to 2022. Currently, she serves as a research assistant at the University of Bern. Her primary research focus is on the Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age of Western Asia.
Eckert, Kenneth (Dr.)
Dr. Ken Eckert is Assistant Professor of English at Hanyang University (ERICA), Ansan, Korea, where he teaches undergraduate courses in English literature and graduate-level composition theory. He studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (PhD, 2011), with a dissertation in Chaucer and medieval romance; Memorial University of Newfoundland (MA, 2001), with a thesis and translation of Beowulf; and Concordia University of Edmonton (BA, 1990).
Egbers, Vera (Dr.)
Vera Egbers is an archaeologist specialized in ancient Western Asia with research interests in subjectivation processes, sensory archaeology, architecture and the built environment, feminist approaches, and archaeology of modernity. She studied in Berlin (Freie Universität), Istanbul (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), and Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and was later a visiting fellow at the Department of Anthropology in Harvard as well as a junior fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Studies (RCAC/ANAMED) of Koç University in Istanbul.
