Emma Blake is a Mediterranean archaeologist, focusing primarily on regional identities and networks in Italy in the second and first millennia BCE. She is the author of Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy has been published by Cambridge University Press 2014) as well as numerous articles. She has conducted fieldwork in western Sicily for many years, and is currently Director and P.I. of a new NEH-funded project, an archaeological field survey tracing the extent of Tunisian influence in western Sicily in all periods. Blake teaches ANTH 160A1 World Archaeology, a Tier 1 course) and has developed and teaches two thematic archaeology courses: Anth 342 Archaeology of Food) and Anth 339 Archaeology of Death) a Tier 2 INDIV course.