AHMA at AIA/SCS 2026

December 6, 2025

AHMA students, alumni, and faculty will be very active at the upcoming joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of AmericaSociety for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, Wednesday January 7 to Saturday, January 10, at the Hilton San Francisco Union.

Here is where you can find us:

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8

SCS-9 (8:00-10:30 AM, Golden Gate 3): Late Antiquity. Susanna Elm, Presider.

AIA-1H (8:00-10:30 AM, location TBA): The Mobility and Circulation of Ancient Coins and People. Elizabeth Fajardo, "Coins on the March: the Hoards of the Anonymous Coins of the Civil Wars 68-69 CE."

SCS-17 (11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Golden Gate 2): Embodied History. Carlos Noreña, Presider.

AIA-2A (11:00 AM-1:00 PM, location TBA): Exhibiting the Etruscans Today: Rethinking Ways of Bridging the Past and the Present. Lisa Pieraccini, Panelist.

AIA-2D (11:00 AM-1:00 PM, location TBA): Sicily. Randall Souza (AHMA '14), "Epigraphy, Topography, and Politics in the Agora of Hellenistic Morgantina: A New Decree of the Council."

AIA (12:00-2:00 PM, Exhibit Hall): Archaeology Resources, Pathways, and Impact Fair. Kim Shelton, Sponsor.

SCS-24 (2:00-5:00 PM, Continental 3): Epigraphy and Power. Dimitrios Sparis, “Καὶ εἰσαγαγόντων εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον τῶν Μιλησίων: Foreign Judges and Arbitration in the World of the Koinon."

SCS-27 (2:00-5:00 PM, Golden Gate 3): Hellenistic History. Emily Mackil, Presider.

AIA-3A (2:00-5:00 PM, location TBA): Methodologies of InclusionGrace Erny, Chair.

AIA-3E (2:00-5:00 PM, location TBA): The Archaeology and Ecology of Anatolian Landscapes. Noah Kaye (AHMA '12), "Placing Toriaion in its Historical Landscape, Recontextualizing an Epigraphic Dossier."

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9

SCS-38 (8:00-10:30 AM, Golden Gate 3): The Economy of the Sacred in the Greek-Speaking Mediterranean. Evan Vance (AHMA '22) and Flavio Santini, Co-organizers. Vance, Introduction. Santini and Vance, "The Athenian Sacred Economy at its Limits: What can an anomalous loan from Demeter and Kore to Athena tell us about Athenian sacred finance?" Talia Prussin (AHMA '23), "Through a Sanctuary Darkly: Landed Estates and Sanctuary Loans under the Early Seleucids."

AIA-4D (8:00-10:30 AM, location TBA): Beyond the Academy: AIA Career Training Initiative (AIA-CaTI) for Archaeology Students. Kim Shelton, Sponsor.

AIA-4E (8:00-10:30 AM, location TBA): The Hellenistic World. Erin Pitt (AHMA '16), "Matohasanaj Archaeological Project: Results from the Second Field Season."

AIA-4G (8:00-10:30 AM, location TBA): Etruscans in America: Gold Medal Symposium in Honor of Nancy Thomson De Grummond. Lisa Pieraccini, "Mario Del Chiaro: Pioneering the Etruscans in California and Beyond."

SCS-50 (2:00-5:00 PM, Imperial A): Dominae: Women, Gender, and Slaveholding in the Roman and Late-Roman World. Lisa Eberle (AHMA '14), Co-organizer. Eberle, "Fashioning Futures. Law, Gender, and Manumission from the XII Tables to Augustus."

AIA-6C (2:00-5:00 PM, location TBA): New Fieldwork in GreeceKim Shelton, Chair.

AIA-6E (2:00-5:00 PM, location TBA): Archaeology and Accessibility in the Digital Age. David Wheeler (AHMA '23), Organizer. John Frey (AHMA '06), Rita Lucarelli, Panelists. 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10

SCS-65 (8:00-11:00 AM, Continental 1): Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt. Leah Packard-Grams, "Notaries of the Sacred Crocodile: The Documentary and Economic Workings of a Late Ptolemaic Scribal Office."

AIA-7D (8:00-11:00 AM, location TBA): Metal and Greek Society. Jesse Obert (AHMA '23), "Fake Gold, Lethal Blade: Reassessing the Depositional History of a (Celtic?) Iron Sword from Nemea."

SCS-79 (2:30-5:00 PM, Imperial B): Classical Compilations in the Ancient WorldJeremiah Coogan, Respondent.