Claire Calcagno is a maritime archaeologist with an interest in the archaeology of the ancient Central Mediterranean region and maritime exchange systems. She has conducted fieldwork at coastal and shipwreck sites around the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and taught at universities in the U.K. and the U.S. As an independent scholar following her post-doc at M.I.T. she has oriented her research to the historiography of maritime archaeology, and the influence of technology on the evolution of the discipline. Her work as an academic translator ranges from books on biblical archaeology to medieval Venetian manuscripts. Claire holds degrees from Harvard University (A.B. in art history) and the University of Oxford (M.St. & D.Phil. in maritime archaeology).