FACULTY AND RESEARCHER AFFILIATESÂ
ROSETTA blends the experience, talents, and intellectual contributions of humanities and social science scholars.
Sorin Adam Matei, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, (College of Liberal Arts), is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in creating team science and digital humanities projects. He is the founder of the ROSETTA initiative.
Personal Link http://matei.org/ithink
Daniel Aliaga is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-founder of Purdue’s Computer Graphics and Visualization Laboratory. Dr. Aliaga has worked on urban modeling, design, and simulation projects over the last decade.
Personal link: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga/
Dr. Lynn Parish, Philosophy.
Originally trained as an archaeologist, Lynn Parrish is a philosopher with special interests in social and political theory, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of art and architecture. I teach a wide variety of undergraduate courses in these areas. When I’m not in the classroom, you are likely to find me in Greece, Italy, or Turkey, where I continue to explore ancient ritual activities in the context of their built environments.
Elizabeth Brite (Honors College) studies water, agriculture, and sustainability in the Aral Sea Basin of Central Asia. Her work has utilized GIS and remote sensing in site and regional analyses.
Personal link: https://honors.purdue.edu/about-us/faculty/brite.php
Michelle Buzon (Anthropology) is a bioarchaeologist who excavates and analyzes skeletal remains from archaeological sites in order to address questions related to the biocultural effects of sociopolitical change in the ancient Nile Valley.
Personal link: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mbuzon/?_ga=2.152381182.692755157.1579969721-179429089.1563803204
Kory Cooper (Anthropology) studies innovation and culture change among Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast Hunter-Gatherers, and the adoption of trade metal in these regions following contact with Europeans. His work often uses GIS and landscape survey research.
Personal link: https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/h.-kory-cooper.html
Ayman Habib is the Thomas A. Page Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He is also the co-director of the Civil Engineering Center for Applications of UAS for a Sustainable Environment (CE-CAUSE) and the associate director of the Joint Transportation Research Program. His research focuses on ensuring the geo-spatial accuracy of multi-sensor/multi-platform/multi-date remote sensing data.
Personal link: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/People/ptProfile?resource_id=111817
Katie Jarriel (Honors College) conducts research spanning classical archaeology, anthropology, and spatial analysis. She studies human-environment interactions in the Bronze Age Cyclades (Greece) and uses GIS to model how communities sustain connections during periods of environmental uncertainty.
Personal link: https://honors.purdue.edu/about-us/faculty/jarriel.php
Rajesh Kalyanam (Research Computing) is a Research Scientist at Purdue with over 10 years of experience in developing data management frameworks for collaborative research in the geospatial sciences. He leads the cyberinfrastructure development activities for ROSETTA.
Ian Lindsay (Anthropology) conducts archaeological research on the origins of complex societies in Bronze Age South Caucasus. His fieldwork focuses on fortified landscapes, incorporating mobile GIS, terrestrial and airborne remote sensing, and drone-based photogrammetry.
Personal link: https://aragats.wixsite.com/lindsay
Erik Otarola-Castillo (Anthropology) studies the interaction between food, human behavior, and environmental factors. His research is spatially situated, often using GIS technologies in his work.
Personal link: http://www.eotarola.com/
Nick Rauh (Classics) is a classicist and archaeologist, and an expert in the Eastern Mediterranean trade and economic exchanges at the cusp of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. His work on Cilicia involved large-scale GIS and landscape archeological methods, including remote sensing.
Personal link: https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/nicholas-k.-rauh.html
Günder Varinlioğlu (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul) has directed the Boğsak Archaeological Survey in southern Turkey since 2010 (link:www.bogsakarchaeology.org). Her research focuses on rural landscapes, architecture, and the building industry in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages. Among her scholarly interests is the application of new technologies in archaeological survey and the impact of informatics in the analysis and interpretation of cultural landscapes.