Scott Coleman, BA (Hons), MA.

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, with a concentration in Public History, studying under the supervision of Dr. Shawn Graham. My research focuses on Byzantine numismatics and how museums use coins to present and represent Eastern Roman identity (330-1453) for public consumption. I am particularly interested in digital methods (3D imaging and Reflective Transformation Imaging) for advancing numismatic research and creating public enchantment of Byzantine coins.

A Little Background.

I graduated from the University of Calgary with a Master of Arts in Greek and Roman Studies (Supervisor: Dr. Marica Cassis) in October 2021 and from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree with a Major in History, Minor in English, and Diploma in Ancient Worlds in May 2019. I participated in the Çadır Höyük Archaeology Project in Yozgat Province, Turkey, from 2016-2019 (Supervisor: Dr. Marica Cassis, The University of Calgary), and I am currently involved with the Inhabiting Byzantine Athens Project since May 2022 (Project Director: Dr. Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia). My participation in this project entails applying digital methods to research archaeological legacy data (middle-Byzantine coins) from the 1930s Agora excavations. I am also a research assistant for the Computational Creativity and Archaeological Data Project, under the direction of Dr. Shawn Graham, a sub-project of CRANE –Computational Research on the Ancient Near East headed by Dr. Timothy Harrison of the University of Toronto.

My other research interests are how scholars can use digital methods to create more accessible numismatic databases, digital approaches to the wear-use analysis of coins in archaeological contexts, and how coins were used as tools for creating the ‘Imagined Community’ in the ancient and medieval world, to name a few.

Click HERE for my CV.