Caleb Hammond

Greek colonization, colonial-indigenous interaction, the North Pontic, western Sicily, mobile pastoralism, ancient statecraft, cultural heritage preservation, ancient hunting

Caleb Hammond is pursuing a PhD in Classics at Stanford University, on the Classical Archaeology track. Before enrolling at Stanford, he earned a B.A. in History from Ohio University and an M.A. in Classics from the University of Arizona. His research interests include Greek colonization and colonial-indigenous interaction in the North Pontic and western Sicily, mobile pastoralism, ancient statecraft, and the preservation of cultural heritage, as well as ancient hunting practices and their artistic representation. He conducts fieldwork at the Elymian city of Segesta on the island of Sicily. His M.A. thesis, "Locating the Middle Ground: Culture Contact in the Ancient North Pontic," compared the French-Algonquian alliance of the European colonial period to the contact situation between ancient Ukraine's Greek colonists and indigenous Iranic populations in an effort to understand cross-cultural phenomena that transcend the transformation of identity.