Eriksen, Berit Valentin (Prof. Dr.)
Berit V. Eriksen is senior researcher at the Museum for Archaeology, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, and Honorary Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology at Kiel University. She lectures on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology. She is a PI of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation: Human–Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’ (CRC 1266, financed by the German Research Foundation/DFG) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Roots’ at Kiel University. She has published various articles and books about the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers as well as flint technology and she is currently particularly interested in the use of flint and stone in early metal using societies, including not least the Bronze Age of Scandinavia.
Espersen, Ryan (Dr.)
Ryan Espersen is an historical archaeologist, cultural heritage consultant, and public educator. Following his Research Masters in Archaeology at Leiden University in 2009, he obtained a Bachelor of Education (2011) to teach high school on the island of Saba, Dutch Caribbean as a means to start a local archaeological education program for both youth and adult residents. He co-founded the Saba Archaeology Center (SABARC) on Saba in 2012 and with government and NGO support, it expanded to include an archaeology office, lab, and museum. In 2012 he joined the European Transatlantic Slave Trade (EUROTAST) research group as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie early stage researcher for his PhD, hosted by Leiden University. He obtained his PhD in 2017 and have been consulting in heritage management and archaeology across the Netherlands and north-eastern Caribbean.
He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Cambridge, as the experienced researcher for project “No dollar too dark: free trade, piracy, privateering and illegal slave trading in the northeast Caribbean, early 19th century’”.
Evans, Monica (Dr.)
Monica Evans is an Associate Professor of Game Design, Development, and Studies in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, United States. Her work sits at the intersection of game design, development, and production; game studies; narrative systems; educational and serious games; and science fiction studies. Dr. Evans directs the Narrative Systems Research Lab at UT Dallas.
Fábrega-Álvarez, Pastor MA (MA)
Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez (Ourense, 1978; MA, 2003, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain). Technical staff member at the Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Institute of Heritage Sciences) (Incipit), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council) (CSIC) in Spain. His fields of interest are the design of methodologies for analyzing and managing archaeological heritage from a geographic and landscape perspective.
Falconer, Steven E. (Prof. Dr.)
Steve Falconer is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. His archaeological studies focus on the rise and collapse of civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. His work particularly explores the roles of rural communities during the growth and periodic abandonment of Bronze Age cities. Steve has authored nearly 80 publications and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus during 2023-2024.
Fall, Patricia L. (Prof. Dr.)
Pat Fall is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. As a paleoecologist, her landscape studies investigate local and regional shifts in vegetation and land use triggered by climate change and human impacts. She conducts research in Polynesia and the Caribbean, as well as the Mediterranean and Middle East. Pat has authored nearly 100 publications, including articles in the Proceedings of the United States Academy of Sciences and in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Fast, Kerry (Dr.)
Kerry Fast holds a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research was a historical-anthropological study of Canadian women’s religious lives. In more recent years, she has focused her research attention on traditional, distinct Mennonite groups, which has taken her to Bolivia, Mexico, and across Canada where she has conducted ethnographic research in Mennonite communities.
Eriksen, Berit Valentin (Prof. Dr.)
Berit V. Eriksen is senior researcher at the Museum for Archaeology, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, and Honorary Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology at Kiel University. She lectures on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology. She is a PI of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation: Human–Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’ (CRC 1266, financed by the German Research Foundation/DFG) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Roots’ at Kiel University. She has published various articles and books about the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers as well as flint technology and she is currently particularly interested in the use of flint and stone in early metal using societies, including not least the Bronze Age of Scandinavia.
Espersen, Ryan (Dr.)
Ryan Espersen is an historical archaeologist, cultural heritage consultant, and public educator. Following his Research Masters in Archaeology at Leiden University in 2009, he obtained a Bachelor of Education (2011) to teach high school on the island of Saba, Dutch Caribbean as a means to start a local archaeological education program for both youth and adult residents. He co-founded the Saba Archaeology Center (SABARC) on Saba in 2012 and with government and NGO support, it expanded to include an archaeology office, lab, and museum. In 2012 he joined the European Transatlantic Slave Trade (EUROTAST) research group as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie early stage researcher for his PhD, hosted by Leiden University. He obtained his PhD in 2017 and have been consulting in heritage management and archaeology across the Netherlands and north-eastern Caribbean.
He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Cambridge, as the experienced researcher for project “No dollar too dark: free trade, piracy, privateering and illegal slave trading in the northeast Caribbean, early 19th century’”.
Evans, Monica (Dr.)
Monica Evans is an Associate Professor of Game Design, Development, and Studies in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, United States. Her work sits at the intersection of game design, development, and production; game studies; narrative systems; educational and serious games; and science fiction studies. Dr. Evans directs the Narrative Systems Research Lab at UT Dallas.
Fábrega-Álvarez, Pastor MA (MA)
Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez (Ourense, 1978; MA, 2003, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain). Technical staff member at the Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Institute of Heritage Sciences) (Incipit), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council) (CSIC) in Spain. His fields of interest are the design of methodologies for analyzing and managing archaeological heritage from a geographic and landscape perspective.
Falconer, Steven E. (Prof. Dr.)
Steve Falconer is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. His archaeological studies focus on the rise and collapse of civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. His work particularly explores the roles of rural communities during the growth and periodic abandonment of Bronze Age cities. Steve has authored nearly 80 publications and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus during 2023-2024.
Fall, Patricia L. (Prof. Dr.)
Pat Fall is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. As a paleoecologist, her landscape studies investigate local and regional shifts in vegetation and land use triggered by climate change and human impacts. She conducts research in Polynesia and the Caribbean, as well as the Mediterranean and Middle East. Pat has authored nearly 100 publications, including articles in the Proceedings of the United States Academy of Sciences and in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Fast, Kerry (Dr.)
Kerry Fast holds a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research was a historical-anthropological study of Canadian women’s religious lives. In more recent years, she has focused her research attention on traditional, distinct Mennonite groups, which has taken her to Bolivia, Mexico, and across Canada where she has conducted ethnographic research in Mennonite communities.
