# Philip Andrew Johnston Ancient Near Eastern Studies Subfield: Archaeology Ph.D. 2015 person email Area of research: Archaeology of the Levant and Mediterranean, (also Archaeological Economics, and Material Science). My coursework was predominantly in the Eastern Mediterranean, but I developed a fascination for the Phoenician colonies in the Western Mediterranean during a tutorial on that topic with my adviser Lawrence Stager. At that time I was also taking a course in archaeological economics through the Anthropology department, which helped me to notice a gap in scholarship concerning the economy of these Western Phoenicians. This led me to take a course in Material Science at MIT, which gave me the skills to address that gap using ceramic analysis. The fact that I had spent several excellent vacations in Southern Spain, previously, only served to sweeten the deal. Thesis title: The Potters of El Castillo de Doña Blanca (Spain): Ceramic analysis and socioeconomic change in colonial contexts [Philip's web site](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-johnston) - ## People Type [Ancient Near Eastern Studies](/people-type/field-ancient-near-eastern-studies) [Archaeology](/people-type/phd-archaeology) [Recent Alumni (Graduate and Undergraduate)](/people-type/recent-alumni-graduate-and-undergraduate) - ## People [Alumni](/alumni)