Dr. Laura Gagné

Contract Instructor

• BA (University of Ottawa); MA (Queen’s University); PhD (University of Toronto).
• 2A64 Paterson Hall, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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Biography

Laura Gagné earned her MA at Queen’s University under the supervision of Dietmar Hagel.  She was awarded the Humanities Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis “Abstraction and Mycenaean Art: A New Look at Plant and Animal Representations in the Shaft Graves at Mycenae.”  She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto in the Ancient Studies Collaborative Program under the supervision of Sturt Manning and Carl Knappett.  The title of her thesis is “Middle Cypriot White Painted Ware: A Study of Pottery Production and Distribution in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus.”

Research Interests

• Archaeology of Childhood,
• Ceramic Technology
• Ancient Greek Art
• Ancient Greek History
• Mortuary Ritual, the Iconography of Power
• The Shaft Graves of Mycenae, Mycenaeanology
• Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus
• Bronze and Iron Age Aegean and East Mediterranean

2026-2027 Courses

• CLCV 1002A: Survey of Greek Civilization (F)
• CLCV 1003B: Survey of Roman Civilization (W)
• CLCV 2500A/ENGL 2500A: Classical Mythology (F)
• LATN 1005B Introduction to Latin I (F)

Book Chapters

2027. “Child’s Play or Style? A re-examination of some “crude” little pots from Kalopsidha, Cyprus.” in Ancient and Preindustrial Ceramics from Cyprus. Multi disciplinary approaches and research advances. Menelaou, Sergios and Marzec, Edyta (eds). New York: Routledge.

“Apprenticeship and Learning in the Prehistoric Potter’s Workshop.” in Pottery. History, Preparation and Uses. Lorraine Doyle (ed). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2019.

Articles

“Rantidi Forest Coastal Survey” in preparation.

“The Terracotta Statues of Lingrin tou Dhigeni, a Rural Sanctuary in Southwestern Cyprus.” in preparation.

“The problem of regional variation within Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery. The view from Cyprus,” Scripta Mediterranea vol. XXVII-XXVIII (2007), pp. 105-111.

“Learning to make pottery. A look at how novices became potters in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus.” BASOR 372 (2014) 19-33.

“Children in the workshop? A reinterpretation of Åström’s classification of some ceramic styles from Bronze Age Kalopsidha, Cyprus.” Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.  In review.