Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM until 6:00 PMPacific Standard Time UTC -08:00
Caroline Sauvage, Ph.D. Professor of Archaeology | NEH chair of Mediterranean Studies | Director of the Archaeology Center
Caroline Sauvage is professor of archaeology in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. She is also the NEH chair of Mediterranean Studies, and the Director of the LMU Archaeology center. She received her B.A. in art history and archaeology as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. in archaeology of the Ancient World from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research interests include trade and maritime exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, as well as the development and use of textile tools during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Her research focuses on exchanges, the status of objects, and their representations and use as identity markers across the eastern Mediterranean. She is the author of “Routes maritimes et Systèmes D’échanges Internationaux au Bronze Récent en Méditerranée Orientale” (2012).