Rate My Professor Megan Daniels

Daniels' research specializations encompass religion and cultural evolution in Iron Age Greece, cross-cultural interaction and religious change, migration and mobility in human history, emporia and sacred exchange in the Mediterranean, data science applications in ancient religion and archaeology, Hellenistic pottery, and Neo-Punic and Roman archaeology. Prior to UNE, she held the IEMA Postdoctoral Fellowship at SUNY-Buffalo (2017-2018) and the Lora Bryning Redford Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology at the University of Puget Sound (2016-2017). She has been honored with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship (2012-2015, $160,000), ACLS/Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2015-2016), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (2010-2014), and various Stanford and UBC awards. Key publications include 'Aphrodite Pandemos at Naukratis Revisited: The Goddess and Her Civic Function in the Context of an Archaic Emporion' (Journal of Greek Archaeology, 2018), 'Hercules and Symbolic Power in Roman Hispania: Appropriating a Globalized Discourse' (Rome, Empire of Plunder, Cambridge University Press, 2017), 'Evidence for Meat Consumption during the Punic to Roman Colonial Transition at Zita' (International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2019, co-authored), and 'Sacred Exchange: The Religious Institutions of Emporia in the Mediterranean World of the Later Iron Age' (Brill, 2014). Daniels has edited volumes under revision on data science and ancient gods, and modeling mobility in human history, and serves on the Program Committee for the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions.