Carrie Ann Murray is the Professor of Roman Archaeology at Brock University (Canada). She studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego (1998); received a M.Phil. in Archaeological Science from the University of Cambridge (1999) and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from University College London (2005). She has held academic posts in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. She began excavating in Italy as an undergraduate in 1997 and participated in many archaeological projects since then. In 2014, she began directing the Brock Archaeological Project at Pantelleria, excavating a Punic-Roman sanctuary site at the Lago di Venere. Her published works investigate the archaeological remains of cultural interaction and religious practices of ancient societies in Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Punic contexts.