• Melanie Godsey joined the Trinity faculty in 2024. Melanie is a Mediterranean archaeologist with an emphasis on material approaches to social and economic histories. Her research concerns interactions among culturally and ethnically diverse communities and their environments in the ancient Mediterranean. Her interest in ancient ceramics drives her work on the lived experiences and daily lives of communities in multicultural spaces with a focus on coastal garrisons and harbors.

    She is a co-director of the Pyla-Koutsopetria excavations at Pyla-Vigla in Cyprus and a staff archaeologist on the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) and Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP).  She has also participated in archaeological survey, excavation, and finds analysis for other projects in Egypt, Greece, and Italy.

    • Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    • M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder
    • B.A., Florida State University

    • (2024), “Ptolemaic Garrisons in the Chremonidean War: Connecting Maritime and Terrestrial Networks,” Journal of Hellenistic and Roman Material Culture (HEROM).
    • (2023), co-authors J. Gates-Foster and B. Redon, “Domestic Activities in Alternate Settings: The Ptolemaic Fort at Bi’r Samut, Egypt,” in C. Barrett and J. Carrington (eds.), Households of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt in Context, Cornell University Press, 297-320.
    • (2022), co-author J. Gates-Foster, "Ptolemaic Painted Pottery from Ghozza, Eastern Desert,” Le Bulletin de liaison de la céramique égyptienne 31: 329-359.
    • (2022), co-author G. Erny, "Scholarly networks, gender sociology and knowledge production in Aegean survey and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology,” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 10.3-4: 343-355.
    • (2022), co-author M. Gradoz, “Pottery from Orneai in the Western Argolid (4th c. BCE-2nd c. CE),” in L. Rembart and A. Walden (eds.), Manufacturers and Markets: The Contributions of Hellenistic Pottery to Economies Large and Small, Proceedings of the 4th Conference of IARPotHP, Athens, November 11-14th, 2019, Vienna, 581-594.

    • Mediterranean archaeology
    • Ancient Economies
    • Landscape Archaeology
    • Ancient ceramics
    • Archaeological ethics

    • Introduction to Classical Archaeology
    • Gender and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Daily Life in Ancient Greece
    • History of Golden Age of Greece