Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor
• Tiffany.Earley-Spadoni@ucf.edu
• 407-823-3829
• Office Hours: Fall 2018: Mondays 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
• Campus Location: CNH408C
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Education

• Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from The Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

Ancient Near East, Digital History, Landscape Archaeology, Geospatial Technologies

Recent Research Activities

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni’s research consists of spatially-oriented investigations of expansionary state development in the ancient Near East. She develops computational models that elucidate how spatial organization both reflects historical change as well as, in certain circumstances, promotes it. Her current archaeological field project in the Vayots Dzor region of Armenia explores ancient fortress landscapes, focusing on the development of social processes such as warfare and non-urban complex state formation. The emergence of the world’s earliest communication networks—e.g. fire beacons—has been a particular emphasis of her research to-date. Her previous fieldwork includes projects in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Italy and Turkey.

Selected Publications

Articles/Essays

• Cobb, P. J., Earley-Spadoni, T., & Dames, P. (2019). Centimeter-Level Recording for All: Field Experimentation with New, Affordable Geolocation Technology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 7(3).
• Earley-Spadoni, T., Petrosyan, A., & Gasparyan, B. (2019). Danger along the high road: report from the 2017 field season of the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project (VDFLP), Armenia. AJNES, XIII(I), 59–80.
• Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany. “Spatial History, Deep Mapping and Digital Storytelling: Archaeology’s Future Imagined through an Engagement with the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Archaeological Science 84 (2017) 95-102 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.05.003).
  

• Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany. "Landscapes of Warfare: Intervisibility Analysis of Early Iron and Urartian Fire Beacon Stations (Armenia)." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3 (2015): 22-30.

Awards

2018-2018 American Institute of the South Caucasus Cultural Heritage Management Fellow

2018 Pauley Travel Award

2017 Pauley Travel Award

2016-2017 American Schools of Oriental Research Mesopotamian Fellowship

Activities

Director of the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project

Project website: https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/armenia/

Director of the Infinite Armenias Project

Project Website: https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/infinitearmenias/

Courses

• Spring 2020
• Fall 2019
• Summer 2019