Elizabeth Greene

Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Brock University, Liz’s research concerns seaborne mobility and interaction across the Mediterranean, focusing on material evidence for long-term processes of exchange, fishing traditions and communities, and migration. In Turkey and Sicily, she has conducted fieldwork and heritage studies of shipwrecks, ports, and maritime landscapes ranging from Archaic to contemporary. Her current work, which emerged from the broad project at Marzamemi, takes a heritage-based and collaborative approach to the abandoned and impounded ships that carried displaced peoples across the central Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe. The research framework considers the ongoing re-makings of the central Mediterranean over millennia of human activity, and the public communication of its long-term heritage. In Turkey, ongoing projects address maritime networks and the emergence of ancient economies through the Archaic shipwrecks at Pabuç Burnu (6^th century BCE) and Kekova Adası (7^th century BCE) and the harbors at Burgaz on the Knidos Peninsula. She serves as President (2023-2026) of the Archaeological Institute of America, having previously held the position of First Vice President (2020-2023) and Vice President for Cultural Heritage (2017-2020). Through this service to the discipline, she advocates for an inclusive, global, and ethical framework for archaeology in the Mediterranean and beyond.