Amanda Cates Ball

Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Fellowship

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Topic: Community Building and Ritual Renovation of Sanctuaries in Aegean Thrace

Amanda Cates Ball is a PhD Candidate at UNC Chapel Hill. She is in residence at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as the Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Advanced Fellow. Her dissertation project, “Community Building and Ritual Renovation of Sanctuaries in Aegean Thrace”, examines Greek and Thracian interaction and community formation in sanctuaries of the northeastern Aegean during the 7th-4th centuries BCE. Amanda is a current team member of American Excavations Samothrace.