Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology

lgosner@ttu.edu

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CV

PhD, Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2016
BA, Classics and Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2008
BFA, Dance, University of Arizona, 2007

Linda is a Mediterranean archaeologist and historian specializing in Iron Age and Roman archaeology and social, economic, and environmental history. Her research centers on local responses to Roman imperialism in rural and industrial landscapes of the western Mediterranean (primarily Spain, Portugal, and Sardinia). She also has a secondary interest in Egypt. Linda studies the impact of empire on technology, craft production, labor practices, and everyday life in provincial communities. Much of her current scholarship is about the mining industry in Iron Age and Roman Iberia. Her work engages with broad questions about human-environment interaction, community and identity, labor history, mobility, and culture contact.

Linda's current fieldwork is in Sardinia, where she co-directs the Sinis Archaeological Project (SAP) and serves as a collaborator with the Progetto S'Urachi (Brown University) and the Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World Project (University of Vienna). SAP explores the diverse social and environmental factors impacting resource extraction, settlement patterns, and colonial interactions from the 1st millennium BCE through the Late Roman period. Previously, Linda has conducted fieldwork—including excavation, pedestrian survey, and ceramic analysis—in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and the US.

At Texas Tech, Linda is the co-director of the Archaeology Program in Classics. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the anthropology program in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work. Linda holds a PhD from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor prior to joining Texas Tech. Linda is on research leave until January 2025 as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and an ACLS fellow.

SELECT AWARDS

ACLS, Barrington Foundation Centennial Fellow in Classical Studies (2023-2024)

Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey) (2023-2024)

Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2018, 2029, 2020, 2023)

Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2020)

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2015-2016)

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship (2010-2015)

Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship, Archaeological Institute of America (2015)

Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant, Portugal (2008-2009)

Phi Beta Kappa

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Gosner, Linda R., and Jeremy Hayne, eds. Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 18. Sheffield: Equinox Press, 2024.

ARTICLES

• Gosner, Linda R., and Jessica Nowlin. “Approaching Interaction in Iron Age Sardinia: Multi-Scalar Survey Evidence from the Sinis Archaeological Project and the Progetto S'Urachi.” Open Archaeology 9, no. 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0320.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Mining for Gold in Visigothic Iberia: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy, Landscape, and Labour.” Al-Masāq 35, no. 3 (2023): 271–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2207161.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Coastal Resource Integration and Reuse in Iron Age South-Eastern Iberia: The Lead Ingots Cast from Pinna Nobilis Shells.” European Journal of Archaeology 25, no. 4 (2022): 504–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.24.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Esparto Crafting under Empire: Local Technology and Imperial Industry in Roman Iberia.” Journal of Social Archaeology 21, no. 3 (2021): 329–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053211016628.
• Gosner, Linda R., Jessica Nowlin, and Alexander J. Smith. “Ground-Truthing the Site-Based Survey at S'Urachi and Su Padrigheddu (West-Central Sardinia): Results of the 2016 and 2017 Seasons.” Fasti Online Documents & Research Archaeological Survey Series 15 (2021): 1–27.
• Madrigali, Emanuele, Linda R. Gosner, Jeremy Hayne, Jessica Nowlin, and Damià Ramis. “Tradizioni e interazioni nella quotidianità dell'età del ferro. Nuove evidenze da Su Padrigheddu (San Vero Milis, OR).” Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Cagliari e le province di Oristano e Sud Sardegna 30 (2019): 107–26.
• Plekhov, Daniel, Linda R. Gosner, Alexander J. Smith, and Jessica Nowlin. “Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeological Survey: A Case Study from the Sinis Archaeological Project, Sardinia.” Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2020.1.
• Dufton, J. Andrew, Linda R. Gosner, Alex R. Knodell, and Catherie Steidl. “Archaeology Underfoot: On-Campus Approaches to Education, Outreach, and Historical Archaeology at Brown University.” Journal of Field Archaeology 44, no. 5 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1605123.
• Van Dommelen, Peter, Enrique Díes Cusí, Linda R. Gosner, Jeremy Hayne, Guillem Pérez-Jordà, Damià Ramis, Andrea Roppa, and Alfonso Stiglitz. “Un millennio di storie: Nuove notizie preliminari sul progetto S'Urachi (San Vero Milis, OR), 2016-2018.” Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Cagliari e le province di Oristano e Sud Sardegna 29 (2018): 141–65.
• Gosner, Linda R., and Alexander J. Smith. “Landscape Use and Local Settlement at the Nuraghe S'Urachi (West-Central Sardinia): Results from the First Two Seasons of Site Survey.” Fasti Online Documents & Research Survey Series 7 (2018): 1–27.
• Gosner, Linda. “Extraction and Empire: Multi-Scalar Approaches to Roman Mining Communities and Industrial Landscapes in Southwest Iberia.” Archaeological Review from Cambridge 31, no. 2 (2016): 125–43.
• Henry, Olivier, Ayşe Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Jesper Blid, Ömür Dünya Çakmaklı, Andrew Dufton, Agneta Freccero, Linda R. Gosner, et al. “La mission Labraunda 2013. Rapport préliminaire.” Anatolia Antiqua 22 (2014): 255–325. https://doi.org/10.4000/anatoliaantiqua.317.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Gosner, Linda R., and Claire Holleran. “Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Mining Industry of the Iberian Peninsula.” In Mobility in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World through Movement, edited by Selim Ferruh Adalı, Benjamin Gray, Susanne Hackenbeck, Elena Isayev, Evan Jewell, Turhan Kaçar, Lindsay Mazurek, and Jana Mokrišová. Rewriting Antiquity. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Mining, Movement, and Migration in the Industrial Landscapes of Roman Iberia.” In Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean, edited by Linda R. Gosner and Jeremy Hayne, 86–112. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 18. Sheffield: Equinox Press, 2024.
• Gosner, Linda R., and Jeremy Hayne. “Moving Forward: Archaeologies of Connectivity and Mobility.” In Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean, edited by Linda R. Gosner and Jeremy Hayne, 1–26. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 18. Sheffield: Equinox Press, 2024.
• Gosner, Linda R., and Jeremy Hayne. “A Place for the Local.” In Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean, edited by Linda R. Gosner and Jeremy Hayne, 320–32. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 18. Sheffield: Equinox Press, 2024.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Community and Commemoration: Funerary Practices in the Roman Mining Districts of Southwest Iberia.” In Cultes et divinités dans les carrières et les mines de l'Empire romain, edited by Federica Gatto and Françoise van Haeperen, 169–93. Fervet Opvs 10. Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2023.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Subsidiary Industries and Cross-Craft Production in the Roman Mining Landscapes of Southwest Iberia.” In Ancient Mining Landscapes. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology (Bonn, Germany). Volume 25., edited by Frank Hulek and Sofia Nicomos, 113–28. Heidelberg: Propylaeum/Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.896.c11650.
• Gosner, Linda R. “Economic Integration and Labor Organization in Roman Mining: The Question of Capitalism.” In Capitalism's Past: An Inquiry into the Possibility of Pre-Modern Capitalism, edited by Michael J. Kelly and Paulo Pachá, 37–64. Networks and Neighbours Series. New York: Punctum Books, 2021.
• Gosner, Linda R., Jeremy Hayne, Emanuele Madrigali, and Jessica Nowlin. “New evidence for local continuity and Phoenician influence in the ceramic assemblage from Iron Age Su Padrigheddu (west-central Sardinia).” In Un viaje entre el Oriente y el Occidente del Mediterráneo: IX Congreso Internacional de Estudios Fenicios y Púnicos, 22-26 de octubre de 2018. Mérida (Extremadura, España), edited by Sebastián Celestino Pérez and Esther Rodríguez González, 1705–14. Mérida: Mytra, 2020.
• Gosner, Linda R., and Laurel Bestock. “Living with the Dead: Three Examples of Christian Reuse in the Abydos North Cemetery.” In Abydos in the First Millennium AD, edited by Elisabeth R. O'Connell, 151–76. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 9. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26kn3.8.

REFERENCE ARTICLES

• Gosner, L.R. Roman Mines and Mining. In Oxford Classical Dictionary, Ed. Tim Whitmarsh, forthcoming
• Gosner, Linda R. “Archaeology of Mining.” In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith, 1–19. Cham: Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2716-1.

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