As a Research Assistant for Malcolm Wiener, and in addition to regular office work (e.g., maintaining and archiving correspondence), I assisted in his ren the wider Aegean world. I helped to prepare PowerPoint lectures, translate articles, and edit papers for publication. I was continually engaged in reading and stay updated with the most recent literature on the prehistoric Aegean; noting conferences, new excavations, and scientific findings on topics related to the East Mediterranean Bronze Age.

I participated in both excavations seasons of the re-excavation of the Pelekita Cave near Kato Zakros, Crete as a trench supervisor. I made tags, kept the notebook, made trench drawing, scarp profiles, assisted in taking elevations, and mapping the cave. I created a Harris matrix for the complex stratigraphy, which includes a layer of tephra from the eruption on Thera in the Late Bronze Age. Furthermore, I am responsible for of the publication of the Neolithic pottery. I performed macroscopic clay analysis, recorded the ceramic lots, and made my own drawings and photographs. The preliminary findings have been reported at several conferences in Greece and the United States, and there are a few brief publications

I began studying Early Neolithic from the rescue excavation Mavropigi-Fillotsairi, in Western Macedonia while finishing my dissertation. The site is central to the larger, ongoing discussion of the Neolithisation of Europe, due to its geographic location, early radiocarbon dates, types of ceramics, architecture, and multiple burials. I studied the material from all of the houses, large pits and graves, created a typology, performed macroscopic clay analysis, recorded the ceramic lots, and made my own drawings and photographs.

While finishing my Ph.D. on Neolithic pottery from Greece, I received the INSTAP SCEC Librarian Fellowship, and I moved to Pacheia Ammos, Crete. As Librarian Fellow, I was responsible for overseeing the non-circulating specialized library and archives. I was responsible for the library budget, making new acquisitions, and binding journals. I maintained and expanded the INSTAP book exchange to over 22 European collaborating institutions. In addition to assisting library patrons with their research, I scanned the local papers for archaeological news to post on the INSTAP announcement board, standardized the cataloging system according to the Library of Congress for languages other than English, and created the first handbook on the library responsibilities for future librarians.

During the summers, I went to Crete, where I worked on several projects and active excavations, all of which were in part connected to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP SCEC), such the excavation at Chryssi Island, the Petras cemetery, and the Bramiana dam rescue excavation. I participated in excavation of these sites as trench supervisor, photographer, and artist.

Back at INSTAP SCEC, I drew pottery from these sites cataloged them, labeled the finds, and assisted the INSTAP photographer in photographing the finds. I did the same for previously excavated material. such as from the Pacheia Ammos rock shelter, Alatzomouri Pefka, and the Pseira shipwreck.

In addition to the excavation responsibilities as a trench supervisor (overseeing workmen, keeping the notebook, taking elevations, drawings, and photography) for the excavation, I also studied some of the ceramic material from Bramiana.

I oversaw the cleaning of the Minoan dams on the island of Pseira.

As a Ph.D. student in Art History at the Tyler School of Art, I worked in Temple University Archaeology Lab, scanning excavation drawings for inking, scanning documents for archives, researched and entered information into the Aegean Digital Archaeological Atlas database and georectified survey sites on the project's map.

While in graduate school for Museum Studies, I was a rentern at Harvard University’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I entered hand-written and old (type-writer) acquisition information into the Museum’s database. I identified the vessel morphology and decorative motifs according to the literature. I also added bibliographic parallels for vessel shape, decoration, and possible origins of the vessels.

In a gap year after undergraduate, I helped to catalog and research artifacts at the Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology (formerly the James L. Kelso Bible Lands Museum) at the Pittsburgh Seminary, which conducted archaeological field work in the Near East (modern day Israel, West Bank, and Jordan) beginning in the early 1920’s. Specifically, I catalogued, researched, and entered data into the museum’s database for Iron-Age small finds (including juglets and beads of various materials) from the site of Tell Beit Mirsim (Israel), which dug in the late 1920's early 1930's William F. Albright, an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.

As a photography student, I was the Assistant archaeological site photographer to Winn Burke for the inaugural excavation season of the Mitrou Archaeological Project (MAP), which at the time (2004) was part of the Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project. I took excavation photographs, assisted in photographing small finds in the studio, relabeling and managing the digital images. I also documented the all of the excavation processes and social aspects of the dig.

For the Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project (CHELP) I supervised workman, students, and volunteers cleaning the archaeological site. I also oversaw the day-to-day of the workroom (apothiki) and managed the study of the Neolithic pottery from the Neolithic levels of the site. I assisted in cataloging, drawing, database creation and entry, prepared the material for transfer and storage in the Atalanti Museum, and created a proposal on how to display the material.