Jordan Pickett is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia. He is an archaeologist and environmental historian with a special interest in the late antique and early Byzantine eastern Mediterranean. He is co-PI, with Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University), for Acropolis investigation for the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Turkey, under the direction of Nick Cahill (University of Wisconsin). Dr. Pickett's research has appeared in periodicals such as Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Human Ecology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Late Antiquity, and PLOS One. He is co-editor, with Vasileios Marinis and Amy Papalexandrou, of Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout.