• Nicolle Hirschfeld has excavated at sites (underwater and terrestrial) throughout the eastern Mediterranean and dug through museum basements all over Europe, looking especially for material evidence of interactions among the different cultures of Late Bronze Age Greece, Anatolia, Cyprus, and Egypt. She is deeply(!) involved in the excavation and study of the ships that wrecked at Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya (Turkey) ca. 1300 and 1200 BCE. Other special interests include potmarks (ancient barcodes), the scripts of ancient Cyprus, and seafaring in the ancient Mediterranean.

    • Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
    • M.A., Texas A&M University
    • B.A., Bryn Mawr College 

    • overseas commerce in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean
    • the Bronze Age script of Cyprus
    • the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck
    • the Cypriot ceramic cargo of the Uluburun shipwreck

    • Mediterranean archaeology
    • maritime archaeology
    • ancient technology

    • Honor Frost Foundation Archival Research Grant (2024)
    • George and Ann Bass Endowment for Nautical Archaeology Publications (2022)
    • Institute of Nautical Archaeology Research Grants (2024, 2023, 2019)
    • Trinity University Summer Research Stipend (2020, 2018, 2014)
    • Trinity University Distinguished Junior Faculty Award (2010)
    • American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2010)
    • J. William Fulbright award (1996)
    • American Schools of Oriental Research: George A. Barton Fellowship (1995)
    • Archaeological Institute of America: Olivia James Traveling Fellowship (1988-90) and Harriet & Leon Pomerance Fellowship (1995-96)