Professional Summary
Graham Braun is a PhD candidate in Bronze Age Archaeology. He holds a B.A. Honours from the University of Victoria and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia. His current research focuses on ritual and feasting deposits from the Minoan palace at Galatas on Crete. He has also studied Bronze Age Aegean/Mediterranean architecture, prehistoric Cypriot archaeology, cultural entanglement as identified in the archaeological record, and digital approaches to archaeological research.
Graham has completed archaeological work with the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project at ancient Eleon, the Anavlochos Project in eastern Crete, and the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project in southcentral Cyprus, and he has helped study the Neopalatial pottery from Poros Iraklio and Galatas. He is currently working on a co-authored project on Late Bronze Age ashlar buildings in Cyprus through energetic analysis.
Education
B.A. Honours: University of Victoria Victoria, BC, Canada, 2020 (Greek and Roman Studies)
M.A.: University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2022 (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology)
Research Support
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
2024 -2025 American School of Classical Studies in Athens Emily Townsend Vermeule Fellowship
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Braun, G.C. and Engstrom, J.M. (2022). Lead figurines from the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Canada): problems of typology and collections history. Annual of the British School at Athens, 117More Information
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Caroline Barnes and Graham Braun (2025. ) Building Bronze Age Cyprus: An Integrative Approach to Monumental Architecture and Ashlar Masonry .Cyprus-American Archaeological Research Institute Invited Lecture Programme, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Colloquium
Graham Braun and Caroline Barnes (2025). The Kition Ship Graffiti: New Additions and New Considerations for Form, Function, and Chronology . DEGUWA In Poseidon's Realm XXX: Ships | Images, Würzburg, Germany.