Biography
Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni is a specialist of the ancient Near East who received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Earley-Spadoni is the Director of the Kurd Qaburstan Project, a large-scale archaeological excavation of a Middle Bronze Age city in northern Iraq. Her research focuses on spatial historical approaches, exploring themes such as social inequality, place-making, and warfare in ancient societies. Dr. Earley-Spadoni has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is the author of Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (2025, University Press of Colorado).
In addition to her academic work, she enjoys hiking, photography, and spending time with her husband and her ragdoll cat, Kali.
Education
- Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from The Johns Hopkins University (2015)
Research Interests
Ancient Near East, Digital Archaeology, GIS and Remote Sensing, Fortifications, Digital Humanities, Spatial History
Creative Activities
Director of the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project (2016-2022)
https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/armenia/
https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/infinitearmenias/Publications
Books
- Earley-Spadoni, T. (2025). Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East. University Press of Colorado.
Articles/Essays
- Earley-Spadoni, T. and Harrower, M. (2020). “Spatial Archaeology: Mapping the Ancient Past with the Humanities and the Sciences,” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 14 (1-2):176–196.
- Cobb, P. J., Earley-Spadoni, T., & Dames, P. (2019). Centimeter-Level Recording for All: Field Experimentation with New, Affordable Geolocation Technology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 7(3).
- Earley-Spadoni, T., Petrosyan, A., & Gasparyan, B. (2019). Danger along the high road: report from the 2017 field season of the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project (VDFLP), Armenia. AJNES, XIII(I), 59–80.
- Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany. (2017). “Spatial History, Deep Mapping and Digital Storytelling: Archaeology’s Future Imagined through an Engagement with the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Archaeological Science 84: 95-102.
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Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany. (2015). "Landscapes of Warfare: Intervisibility Analysis of Early Iron and Urartian Fire Beacon Stations (Armenia)." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3: 22-30.
Book Sections/Chapters
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Earley-Spadoni, T. (2022). “Danger in the Mesopotamian Night: Mitigating
Peril in the Heartland of Cities.” In After Dark: The Nocturnal Landscape
and Lightscape of Ancient Cities, edited by Nancy Gonlin and Meghan Strong. Boulder:
University Press of Colorado: 50-70.
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Earley-Spadoni, T. (2022). “Fortified Roads as Communication Networks in the Ancient Near East.” In Global Perspectives to Landscapes of Warfare, edited by Hugo C. Ikehara Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz. Boulder: University Press of Colorado: 139-158.
Awards
2024 American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Membership Service Award
2024 National Science Foundation Senior Archaeology Award (2344957), “Investigating Spatial Organization of Early Urban Life.” (PI: Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, Co-PI Glenn Schwartz)
2023 American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Membership Service Award
2022 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Fellowship
2022 American Institute of the South Caucasus Research Fellowship
2021 UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award
2018 American Institute of the South Caucasus Cultural Heritage Management Fellow
2016-2017 ASOR Mesopotamian Fellowship
Courses
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83706 | ASH3200 | Anc Near Eastern Societies | Web-Based (W) | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Unavailable |
| 93107 | ASH3204 | History of Mesopotamia | Web-Based (W) | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Unavailable |
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12298 | ASH3204 | History of Mesopotamia | Web-Based (W) | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Unavailable |
| 12978 | HIS3600 | Professionalizing History Maj | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Unavailable |
| 20219 | HIS6165 | Digital Tools for Historians | In Person (P) | Th 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM | Unavailable |