Jacob Engstrom - University of Cincinnati

Jacob Engstrom is a PhD candidate specializing in Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati. For the 2024-25 academic year, Jacob is the Heinrich Schliemann Fellow at the School. His dissertation project, "Aegean Marine Style: A Social and Contextual Analysis of Production, Distribution, and Consumption," is a comprehensive contextual analysis of Marine Style pottery and related media throughout the Aegean. In general, his research focuses on social change, cultural resilience, regional variation, and transcultural interactions and cultural entanglements in Aegean prehistory, as well as archaeological archives and the intellectual and political history of archaeology in the Aegean. 

Jacob has worked as an excavation supervisor with the Palace of Nestor Excavations at Pylos, the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project at Ancient Eleon, and the Olynthos Project. He has also assisted with pottery study at Ayia Irini, Kea. Recent research includes an article forthcoming in Hesperia on an incised warrior stele from Ayia Irini and a chapter on the role of archives in writing critical histories of archaeology through a case study on Carl Blegen's excavations at Troy.