research overview
- Dr. James is a field archaeologist and archaeological ceramicist working in Greece and Croatia. Her research is derived from excavations at the sites of Corinth and Sikyon and a large-scale survey of the western Argolid; all located in the northeastern Peloponnese of southern Greece. She has published extensively on Corinthian and Sikyonian Hellenistic ceramic assemblages (4th-1st c. BCE) with the twin goals of revising pottery chronologies and typologies and examining import patterns to better understand maritime trade networks during the Hellenistic period and conditions prior to the Roman conquest of Greece. She co-directed the Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), a diachronic archaeological survey of the mountainous western Argolid, which focused on landscape use, inland routes through the northeastern Peloponnese, and this region's changing relationship to the ancient city of Argos. She studied much of the Greek-period pottery from the Late Bronze Age through Hellenistic period (16th-1st c. BCE) for the final volume. Her contributions include an article on survey methodology, two articles on the Late Antique landscape, and an overview of the survey's results. Beginning in summer 2022, she directs the Brač Island Project in southern coastal Croatia (Dalmatia) which is excavating an Iron Age hillfort at Gradina Rat.
