Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

Vita:
I, Nicholas George Blackwell, was born to Diane and George Blackwell on
October 29, 1980 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. After three years of public elementary
school in Orange, Virginia, I was homeschooled by my mother until I began high school
at Woodberry Forest School (Madison, VA)—where I graduated in 1998. I received my
B.A. in 2002 from Davidson College (Davidson, NC) with honors in Classics. Since then,
I have been enrolled as a graduate student in the Department of Classical and Near
Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, where I earned an M.A. in 2004. My
master’s thesis comprised two papers, titled: 1) Instruments of Sacrifice: The Religious
Function of Early Minoan Daggers and 2) Tomb and Burial Assemblage Variation within
the “Royal Cemetery” at Salamis (Cyprus). In 2005–2006, I served as a teaching
assistant at Bryn Mawr College and passed my doctoral preliminary examinations in the
following subject areas: 1) Prehistory of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean; 2) Greek
Architectural Sculpture; 3) Homeric Studies; and 4) Neo-Assyrian and Egyptian Art and
Architecture. In July 2006, I married Joanie Gidas and we spent the subsequent year in
Athens, Greece while I was a Regular Member at the American School of Classical
Studies. Since Fall 2007, I have received several traveling fellowships to fund
dissertation research in Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. Having excavated in Cyprus or
Greece nearly every summer since 2000, I served as the Field School Director for the
Mitrou Archaeological Project (Greece) over Summer 2008. The final stage of doctoral
work was supported by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship. Next year, I will
conduct post-doctoral research with funding from the Archaeological Institute of
America’s Pomerance Fellowship and an Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
Fellowship from the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Israel.
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