Hans Beck's work focuses on local and regional manifestations of Greek culture, in relation with the natural environment. For more info, see www.hansbeck.org and his work with WWU's Religion and Politics Excellence Cluster.
Sophia Nomicos currently surveys the size and structure of the graves, burial goods, grave-markers and tombstones, and others, in the Saronic region. Her new book, "Laurion: Montan- und siedlungsarchäologische Studien zum antiken Blei-Silberbergbau" (2021) explores resource exploitation in Laureion, southern Attica.
Sabine Huy works on economic connectivity in Ionia, particularly in Samos and Miletus. She examines how local and regional networks of production and exchange are embedded in social practices and shaped by environmental conditions. Further interests include cross-cultural interaction between Greek communities and local populations in the Black Sea region.
Samuel Gartland’s work focusses on the way in which environment and people interact, and how that interaction plays out in the communities, cultures and behaviours of ancient Greece. He is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History and Culture at the University of Leeds.
Emma Aston works on ancient Thessaly, and is the author of Blessed Thessaly: The Identities of a Place and its People from the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic (2024). Her research also encompasses various aspects of ancient Greek mythology and religion, especially as reflecting interactions with landscape and natural resources.
Lukas Duisen is currently working on his PhD-dissertation, in which he scrutinizes the relationship between early polis communities in Archaic Greece and their natural environments. He is also involved in excavation and survey work at ancient Amyklai. Lukas has recently completed the European Master in Classical Cultures with a thesis on ecocritical readings of Homer’s Odyssey.
