Aaron A. Burke
President, AIA-LA Society
Affiliation: UCLA, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (https://nelc.ucla.edu/person/aaron-burke/ – https://ucla.academia.edu/AaronBurke)
Research interests: Warfare, migration, environmental change, and social change in the ancient Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages
Email me: aaburke@ucla.edu
Charlie Steinmetz
Vice President AIA-LA Society
Charles W. Steinmetz is a real estate investor and President of the Steinmetz Foundation that makes grants to literacy and curiosity building educational non-profits
in Southern California.
Email me: charlie.steinmetz@gmail.com
Paul Scotton
Board Member AIA – LA Society and past president.
Affiliation: California State University, Long Beach. Program in Classics.
Research Interests: Paul is Co-Director of the Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project in the Corinthia, Greece. He has been active in the excavation of multiple sites in Greece for over thirty years.
Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project
Email me: Paul.Scotton@csulb.edu
Ken Seligson
Membership Coordinator AIA – LA Society
Affiliation: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Department of Anthropology
https://kenseligson.wordpress.com/
Research Interests: human-environment relationships in the Northern Maya Lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Email me: kseligson@csudh.edu
Alba Mazza
Assistant Secretary, AIA-LA Society
Affiliation: The Getty Villa, J. Paul Getty Museum https://getty.academia.edu/AlbaMazza
Research Interests: human-environment relationship, coastal settlements, Mediterranean seafaring, underwater archaeology, climate change, environmental hazards, resilience.
Email me: alba.mazza@gmail.com
Dawn Cox
Hospitality Coordinator AIA – LA Sociey
Eighth grade U.S History teacher in the Los Angeles area.
Dawn currently works at Lynwood Middle School. She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Management in 2013 from Alliant International University. A love for history and archaeology led to her studying abroad in Florence, Italy. In 2003 she was awarded a teaching fellowship through the conservation group Earthwatch.
Email me: dmichelle1976@yahoo.com
Maddie Yakal
Graduate Student Liaison AIA – LA Society
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology UCLA
Research Interests: Southeast Asia; Philippines; colonialism; indigenous heritage; paleoethnobotany; landscape archaeology; human-environment relationships; bead production and trade.
Email me: myakal@ucla.edu