Biography

Bill Caraher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota. These pages provide a portal into his professional interests from teaching, to multimedia, to research.
His primary teaching interests are Greek, Roman, and Byzantine History, and Early Christianity. He also teaches undergraduate classes in historical methodology and a graduate seminar in historiography.

He took his B.A. from University of Richmond in 1994 and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2003. His dissertation focused on the influence of Early Christian ritual and architecture on ecclesiastical and social authority in 5th-7th century Greece.

Bill also maintains active research interests in survey archaeology, as the co-director of Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project in Cyprus and participates in the continued archaeological research associated with the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey and the Ohio State Excavations at Isthmia. Recently, Bill has become interested in database management and GIS application in archaeological research.

Check out my project pages:
http://www.chss.iup.edu/pkap/
http://www.squinch.und.edu/

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