Anastasia Iorga

Lecturer
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2025

Email: anastasia.iorga@stonybrook.edu

Teaching

Courses taught at Stony Brook include: ANT104 - Introduction to Archaeology, ANT222 - Greek and Roman Myth Through Art and Technology, ANT260 - How We Eat

Research Interests

My work focuses on landscape use by humans and animals in variable environments like wetlands. I use isotopic analysis of plant and animal remains to address questions of how people and animals lived in and interacted with environments that change seasonally and spatially. I am broadly interested in how people navigate changing environmental and social landscapes by looking at multiple aspects of their life, such as (1) their plant and animal consumption and use, (2) how they managed their animals, and (3) how they interacted with each other. My ongoing work involves characterizing past marshland exploitation through a multi-isotope approach and assessing the extent of isotopic variability in places like the marshes of the northeastern United States and the Mesopotamian floodplain of Iraq. I have past experience in classical archaeology, looking at the ancient Mediterranean and Roman-Britain animal management, and I use this experience to teach classes like ANT222: Greek and Roman Myth Through Art and Technology, where we look at how Ancient Greeks and Romans projected their beliefs onto their art and other aspects of their daily lives. 

For more details on Dr. Iorga's research, please visit her ResearchGate profile.