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 - especially children.

She has excavated as a volunteer with the Balkan Heritage Field School at the sites of Stobi in the Republic of North Macedonia and Emporion Pistiros in Bulgaria. Laurel has also been a trench supervisor at 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.