Tracey Eckersley was awarded the Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship and was a scholar-in-residence at ACOR in the summer of 2014. While there, Tracey completed the research for her Ph.D. in Byzantine Art and Architecture at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, which she expects to defend in 2015.

Tracey’s research focuses on Late Antique floor mosaics in Jordan. She is investigating how early Christian communities in the provinces of Palaestina and Arabia used depictions of cities to convey messages of authority and status. During her fellowship, Tracey visited various sites and museums to view these mosaics and determine how they would have been interpreted by Late Antique audiences within both their architectural and socio-cultural contexts.

Tracey holds a B.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Wilfrid Laurier University, an M.A. in in Classical Studies from McMaster University, and a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. She worked for ten seasons on excavations in Carthage and has worked on museological projects in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Tunisia.

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Emanuela Bocancea was awarded the Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship and was a scholar in residence at ACOR in the spring of 2014. Emanuela is completing research for her anticipated Ph.D. degree in Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Emanuela is studying the nature of Roman imperialism during the period of Rome’s greatest territorial extent (2nd-3rd centuries CE). In particular, her dissertation examines the activities, organization, role, and impact of the Roman army in Arabia and Dacia – the final provinces incorporated into the Roman Empire.  Emanuela’s research is highlighting the differences and similarities of Roman military organization on two very different but contemporaneous imperial frontiers, and seeks to understand the overall role and impact of the Roman army in the creation of these two provincial societies.

Emanuela earned her B.A. in Classical Studies and her M.A. in Classical Archeology from the University of Alberta in Canada.  She has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Jordan, the British West Indies (Montserrat), Spain, Romania, and Greece.

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