Cole Matthew Smith
Virginia Grace Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin
Research Topic: Economies of the Late Classical and Hellenistic Western Black Sea: Archaeology, Commodities, the Environment, and Theory
Cole is a 4th-year PhD student in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in archaeology. He has participated in excavation projects in Greece and Romania. His research focuses on analyzing the ancient economies of the Black Sea through pottery analysis, numismatics, epigraphy, and theory. He earned his BA in Classics with honours from Acadia University, his MA in Archaeology from Durham University, and his MA in Classics from the University of Arizona.