Former Contributors
Anthony J. Lauricella
Former Acting Director
Anthony served as the Assistant Director of the CAMEL lab from 2015-2017 under Dr. Emily Hammer, and as Acting Director from 2017-2022. During his time in the lab, he oversaw the migration of CAMEL’s digital collection into the ISAC Integrated Database, as well as numerous research projects utilizing satellite remote sensing, aerial photography, and geospatial datasets. Anthony was Senior Analyst for Prof. Gil Stein’s Afghan Heritage Mapping Partnership (AHMP) and as part of that project carried out research in automatic detection and the recording of previously undocumented archaeological sites. He has taught courses and workshops on archaeological GIS, remote sensing, survey methods, and geophysics.
Currently Anthony is the manager of the C.H. Nash Museum at the University of Memphis. He holds an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, and has conducted field survey and excavation in Sicily, Turkey, Palestine, Naxcivan, and Western North Carolina. He continues to collaborate with the CAMEL lab and monitor the cultural heritage of Afghanistan.
Andrew M. Wright
Former CAMEL Team Member
Andrew works as a senior research analyst at the Forum for Digital Culture at the University of Chicago and is an experienced field archaeologist with expertise in GIS, photogrammetry/3D modeling, and digital data management. He holds a BA in archaeology from Lycoming College and an MA in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Chicago. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus, Turkey, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, and Spain. He is also an Associate Director of the American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus.
Andrew worked in the CAMEL Lab in 2019-2022 as the project manager of the Afghan Heritage Mapping Partnership (AHMP). There, he oversaw the cataloging of previously unrecorded cultural heritage sites that were found manually using remote sensing data and detected automatically using deep learning. His work also involved capacity building initiatives for the Archaeology Institute of Afghanistan. He still collaborates with the CAMEL Lab to conduct workshops in the latest methods of archaeological excavation and digital recording.
Previous Directors
Dr. Scott Branting—Director (currently Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida)
Professor Tony Wilkinson—Director and Founder (late Professor, Durham University)
Previous Research Assistants (A-Z)
Dr. Jesse Casana—Research Assistant (currently Associate Professor, Dartmouth College)
Dr. Carrie Hritz—Research Assistant, Interim Director, Associate Director
William Kent—Senior Supervisor
Bryan Kraemer—Database Administrator
Elise MacArthur—Associate Director
Breanna Maestas—Research Assistant
Susan Penacho—Associate Director
Sami Sweis— Senior Supervisor
Robert Tate—Associate Director
Joshua Trampier—Associate Director
Murphy Tu—Research Assistant
Dr. Jason Ur—Research Assistant (currently Professor, Harvard University)
Past Afghanistan Heritage Mapping Partnership Staff
Eric Hubbard—Past Manager
Dr. Kathryn Franklin—Past Manager (currently Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Birkbeck University of London)
Dr. Emily Hammer—Past Manager
Dr. Rebecca Seifried—Past Manager (currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, University of Zagreb)
Emily Boak—Heritage Analyst
Danielle Brown
Shaheen Chaudry
Gwendolyn Kristy
Oren Siegel
CAMEL Volunteers and Student Assistants (A-Z)
Jennifer Altman-Lupu—Student Assistant
Aleksandr Altskan—Student Assistant
Alex Apostal—Volunteer
Marc Block—Volunteer
Jim Boves—Volunteer
Brian Brown—Student Assistant
Danielle Brown—Student Assistant
Sam Cahill—Student Assistant
Lori Calabria—Student Assistant
Paul Christians—Student Assistant
Gaby Cohen—Volunteer
Joe Cronin—Student Assistant
Matthew Cuda—Student Assistant
Irv Diamond—Volunteer
Alexander Elwyn—Volunteer
Edward Fernandez—Student Assistant
Michael Fisher—Afghanistan Mapping Project Staff
Caitlin Flanagan—Student Assistant
Deborah Friedrich—Volunteer
Elena Guobytė—Student Assistant
Katherine Harvath—Student Assistant
Christopher Harvey—Student Assistant
Debora Heard—Volunteer
Corey Husak—Student Assistant
Courtney Jacobson—Student Assistant
Jessica Jarvinen—Student Assistant
Alexandra Kelly—Student Assistant
Kathy Lemberg—Student Assistant
Alphonse Lembo—Volunteer
Larry Lissak—Volunteer
Hannah Loftus—Student Assistant
Rolland Long—Anatolian Atlas researcher
Natasha Murtaza–Student Assistant
Nil Oktem—Volunteer
Karl Otto—Student Assistant
Sunameeka Panigrahy—Student Assistant
Paige Paulsen—Volunteer
Joe Phillips—Student Assistant
Megan Porter—Student Assistant
Nadia Qazi—Student Assistant
Liz Rietz-Clark—Volunteer
Shayna Rodman—Student Assistant
Sadie Samuels—Student Assistant
Harold Sanders—Volunteer
Elizabeth Schuda–Student Assistant
Jamie Shapiro–Student Assistant
Ndah Somdah—Student Assistant
Meg Swaney—Student Assistant
Austin Terry—Student Assistant
Patrick Thevenow—Student Assistant
Vincent van Exel—Volunteer
Morning Washburn—Student Assistant
Ronald Wideman—Volunteer
Kevin Wilkerson—Student Assistant
Brian Wilson—Student Assistant
Allison Wood—Student Assistant
Joel Wright—Student Assistant
Catherine Yeager—Student Assistant
Adam Zeidan—Student Assistant