ABOUT DR. JARRIEL
Katie Jarriel received her B.A. in Anthropology from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina in 2010. In 2017, she completed her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Cornell University. Her dissertation, Small Worlds after All? Landscape and Community Interaction in the Cycladic Bronze Age, used geospatial analysis to understand local community interaction in the Early Bronze Age Aegean. While at Cornell, she was an instructor and teaching assistant for courses in archaeology, classics, and Latin language. In 2017 and 2018, she instructed an introduction to classical archaeology course during the January term at Colby College.
In Fall 2018, she joined the interdisciplinary John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University as a Clinical Assistant Professor. She currently teaches courses on human-environment interaction, materiality and the human body, spatial analysis, and roleplaying games. Her archaeological research examines maritime mobility and community in the Cycladic islands, with particular interest in the relationship between small-world networks, technology, and environmental disaster. Dr. Jarriel is the director of Project oCEANIC: Computing Environmental Adaptation and Navigation in Island Communities. Dr. Jarriel is also the co-PI of two research projects in which she collaborates with undergraduate researchers: Movable Desks, Flexible Minds? and Teamwork LevelUp! She has led a study abroad Maymester to Greece and this upcoming summer will be taking her research team to Hawai'i.
Dr. Jarriel is the Director of the Honors Mentor Program, a transformational leadership development opportunity designed specifically for Honors students. Around 130 mentors help first-year students develop collaboration skills in the Honors First-Year Experience. Dr. Jarriel works closely with the mentors to develop extracurricular programming and leadership development trainings.
In her spare time, Dr. Jarriel enjoys playing tabletop RPGs and board games, photography, and cuddling with her three cats.
In Fall 2018, she joined the interdisciplinary John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University as a Clinical Assistant Professor. She currently teaches courses on human-environment interaction, materiality and the human body, spatial analysis, and roleplaying games. Her archaeological research examines maritime mobility and community in the Cycladic islands, with particular interest in the relationship between small-world networks, technology, and environmental disaster. Dr. Jarriel is the director of Project oCEANIC: Computing Environmental Adaptation and Navigation in Island Communities. Dr. Jarriel is also the co-PI of two research projects in which she collaborates with undergraduate researchers: Movable Desks, Flexible Minds? and Teamwork LevelUp! She has led a study abroad Maymester to Greece and this upcoming summer will be taking her research team to Hawai'i.
Dr. Jarriel is the Director of the Honors Mentor Program, a transformational leadership development opportunity designed specifically for Honors students. Around 130 mentors help first-year students develop collaboration skills in the Honors First-Year Experience. Dr. Jarriel works closely with the mentors to develop extracurricular programming and leadership development trainings.
In her spare time, Dr. Jarriel enjoys playing tabletop RPGs and board games, photography, and cuddling with her three cats.