Sarah Murray

Sarah Murray is a cultural historian and archaeologist specializing in the material culture and institutions of early Greece, especially the history of exchange between the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean and social and economic developments in the Early Iron Age Aegean. She has worked on numerous archaeological projects in Greece and Italy and is currently co-directing an archaeological survey project around the bay of Porto Rafti in Eastern Attica (Greece), supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the University of Toronto’s Connaught New Researcher Award, and the Institute for the Study of Aegean Prehistory. Her scholarly publications include three books and three co-edited volumes. She has also published over twenty chapters in collected volumes and single- or co-authored peer reviewed articles in venues including American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, Journal of Archaeological Research, Antiquity, Mouseion, American Historical Review, Journal of Field Archaeology, and Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Since 2022 she has served as co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology.

Publications

• Models, Methods, and Morality: Assessing Modern Approaches to the Greco-Roman Economy (Palgrave Springer, 2024)