Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni is an associate professor of history and a specialist in the ancient Middle East. At UCF, she directs the Kurd Qaburstan Project, a large-scale archaeological excavation of a Middle Bronze Age city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Her work focuses on how ancient societies structured space politically, socially, and militarily, and what those arrangements reveal about power and resistance. The National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities have supported her digital archaeology work. Her first book, Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025), received the 2025 Frank Moore Cross Award from the American Society of Overseas Research for the most substantial new volume in the field of ancient Mediterranean history. It is methodologically innovative in its combination of archaeological data, historical texts and GIS spatial analysis. Earley-Spadoni earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
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