Laurel Fricker

Laurel earned her B.A. in Classical Civilizations, Classical Archaeology, and German with High Honors from the University of Michigan and her M.A. in Classics, Classical Archaeology Emphasis, from the University of Arizona. Her interests range from the Bronze Age through Hellenistic Greece and primarily include the organization of Greek households, city planning, ancient domestic spaces, the materiality of everyday life in the ancient world, and social groups not commonly represented in the ancient texts. Her dissertation, ""Playing House": Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Greek Houses," investigates how children grew up within domestic spaces in ancient Greece.

She has excavated at Stobi in the Republic of North Macedonia and Emporion Pistiros in Bulgaria with the Balkan Heritage Field School and at Segesta, Sicily with the Arizona Sicily Project Excavations. Laurel has been a trench supervisor with Michigan’s Olynthos Project, a field project focused on the Classical city of Olynthos in northern Greece. Currently she is the field supervisor of Michigan's Pella Urban Dynamics Project.