James Gross

James is a PhD student in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World at the University of Pennsylvania; upon graduating with his BA in classics and archaeology at Stanford in 2017, he held a Fulbright Scholarship to Turkey. He is interested in the intersection of agricultural production, trade, and taxation in the late Roman period and, more specifically, in the mechanisms behind the mobilization and distribution of amphora-borne commodities like wine and oil. Throughout and since his time at Stanford, he has participated in the lab’s projects in Sicily and Turkey, most recently helping supervise fieldwork and diving safety. He spent several spent seasons at the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s Bodrum Research Center working with material from the 7^th-century CE Yassıada and 6^th-century BCE Pabuç Burnu shipwrecks, while also helping to develop a 3D modelling-based method for assessing amphora standardization. He has coordinated and supervised processing and analysis of architectural models from the Marzamemi 2 wreck, and he maintains a longstanding interest in ceramic analysis and a particular fondness for amphora lids, having studied the morphology and fabrics of lids from both the Yassıada and Marzamemi wrecks. Currently, he is working on the petrographic analysis of pottery samples from underwater surveys at Kekova Adası and Vendicari.