Turner, Daniel R. (Dr.)
Daniel R. Turner holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alabama (2010) with specialisations in medieval history and the archaeology of complex societies. He received an M.Phil. in Archaeological Research from the University of Cambridge (2012) after completing a dissertation on comparative labour costs of early medieval earthworks in the British Isles. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a Staff Archaeologist for the cultural resource management firm, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI), directing more than 60 surveys and excavations across the south-eastern U.S. In 2016, he joined the ERC-funded SETinSTONE project as a PhD candidate within the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, continuing with the project as a postdoctoral researcher in early 2020.
Twiston Davies, Huw (Dr.)
Huw Twiston Davies was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi-project The Walking Dead at Saqqara, The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2018–2022), and was additionally Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester 2020–2021. Twiston Davies studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he received his doctorate in 2018.
Urbani. Bernardo (Dr.)
Bernardo Urbani is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Anthropology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in Caracas, Venezuela. Currently, he also is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research/German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for conducting this study and was the recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Primatologists and the Martha J. Galante Award of the International Primatological Society. His research interests are primate cognitive and behavioral ecology, history of primatology, archaeoprimatology/ethnoprimatology, and primate conservation.
Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der (Dr.)
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof is a freelance consultant, researcher and editor known as the Overdressed Archeologist & Editor. In addition to publishing half a dozen books with us, she frequently collaborates with Sidestone Press doing both copy editing, book design and our social media marketing.
Valamoti, Soultana Maria (Prof. dr.)
Soultana Maria Valamoti is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published several books and edited volumes as well as over 100 articles. Her research interests focus on human-plant interactions, anthropogenic landscape and vegetation change, ancient food, ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology. She is director of the Departmental lab, LIRA, as well as the PlantCult laboratory at CIRI at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has supervised a large number of MA dissertations and PhDs and has engaged in several outreach activities disseminating archaeobotanical results for the public.
Van As, Stijn MA (MA)
Stijn van As became involved in the Oss research projects during his early study years. He graduated in Prehistoric Archaeology at Leiden University in early 2010. He worked in commercial archaeology for several years as a field archaeologist (2010-2012) and became a member of the Faculty in late 2012 with the task of producing the catalogue of the Oss-North campaigns.
Van de Put, Winfred (Dr.)
Winfred van de Put held the position of director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens from 2014 to 2022. He is a specialist in Attic and Apulian vase-painting, having studied at the University of Amsterdam in the eighties with Professors Hemelrijk and Brijder. He defended his PhD on the development of the iconography on lekythoi at Ghent University in 2012 and taught archaeology at the Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Nijmegen (Radboud) from 2005 to 2013. In 2013-2014 he briefly held a position of curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, for which he wrote two fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (3 and 4, comprising all the lekythoi of the museum). He participated in field-work in Lakonia, Carthage, Sozopol (Apollonia Pontica), Boeotia, Thorikos and Halos, mostly involved in finds processing. He is member of the editorial board of Pharos.
Turner, Daniel R. (Dr.)
Daniel R. Turner holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alabama (2010) with specialisations in medieval history and the archaeology of complex societies. He received an M.Phil. in Archaeological Research from the University of Cambridge (2012) after completing a dissertation on comparative labour costs of early medieval earthworks in the British Isles. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a Staff Archaeologist for the cultural resource management firm, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI), directing more than 60 surveys and excavations across the south-eastern U.S. In 2016, he joined the ERC-funded SETinSTONE project as a PhD candidate within the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, continuing with the project as a postdoctoral researcher in early 2020.
Twiston Davies, Huw (Dr.)
Huw Twiston Davies was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi-project The Walking Dead at Saqqara, The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2018–2022), and was additionally Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester 2020–2021. Twiston Davies studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he received his doctorate in 2018.
Urbani. Bernardo (Dr.)
Bernardo Urbani is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Anthropology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research in Caracas, Venezuela. Currently, he also is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research/German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for conducting this study and was the recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Primatologists and the Martha J. Galante Award of the International Primatological Society. His research interests are primate cognitive and behavioral ecology, history of primatology, archaeoprimatology/ethnoprimatology, and primate conservation.
Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der (Dr.)
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof is a freelance consultant, researcher and editor known as the Overdressed Archeologist & Editor. In addition to publishing half a dozen books with us, she frequently collaborates with Sidestone Press doing both copy editing, book design and our social media marketing.
Valamoti, Soultana Maria (Prof. dr.)
Soultana Maria Valamoti is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published several books and edited volumes as well as over 100 articles. Her research interests focus on human-plant interactions, anthropogenic landscape and vegetation change, ancient food, ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology. She is director of the Departmental lab, LIRA, as well as the PlantCult laboratory at CIRI at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has supervised a large number of MA dissertations and PhDs and has engaged in several outreach activities disseminating archaeobotanical results for the public.
Van As, Stijn MA (MA)
Stijn van As became involved in the Oss research projects during his early study years. He graduated in Prehistoric Archaeology at Leiden University in early 2010. He worked in commercial archaeology for several years as a field archaeologist (2010-2012) and became a member of the Faculty in late 2012 with the task of producing the catalogue of the Oss-North campaigns.
Van de Put, Winfred (Dr.)
Winfred van de Put held the position of director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens from 2014 to 2022. He is a specialist in Attic and Apulian vase-painting, having studied at the University of Amsterdam in the eighties with Professors Hemelrijk and Brijder. He defended his PhD on the development of the iconography on lekythoi at Ghent University in 2012 and taught archaeology at the Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Nijmegen (Radboud) from 2005 to 2013. In 2013-2014 he briefly held a position of curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, for which he wrote two fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (3 and 4, comprising all the lekythoi of the museum). He participated in field-work in Lakonia, Carthage, Sozopol (Apollonia Pontica), Boeotia, Thorikos and Halos, mostly involved in finds processing. He is member of the editorial board of Pharos.
