Nicole Constantine

Nicole is a PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology at Stanford, with research focused on the dynamic social worlds of the Hellenistic and early Roman Eastern Mediterranean. She is broadly interested in the political and social change that characterizes this period, and how we can assess the effects of sociopolitical shifts on ancient communities through archaeological materials. To that end, her dissertation work explores the maritime archaeological record to understand how ships, sailors and exchange reshaped social and economic life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean. She investigates the social world of Mediterranean ships, the rhythms of daily life lived out by sailors, and the active role that these historically obscure figures played in the making of the Hellenistic world. 

She works primarily with ceramics and has authored chapters on the ceramic materials from the Hellenistic harbor at Akko and the ancient suburb of Daphne. She also serves as the assistant editor of The Levantine Ceramics Project, an open-source database for the publication of ceramic data from the Mediterranean. She has conducted fieldwork, both underwater and on land, in Turkey, Israel and Sicily.