In Nicosia

• Director

  Dr. Andrew McCarthy started his term as Director of CAARI in June 2011. Dr. McCarthy earned Bachelor's degrees in Classics and History at Loyola University New Orleans, and continued his studies at Creighton University and Middlebury College studying modern and ancient languages and Syro-Palestinian/Egyptian archaeology. Early in his career he spent time in Leuven, Belgium studying philosophy and historiography, and worked at the Western Heritage Museum in Omaha, NE. While studying for his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Andrew spent another year in Leuven at the Katholieke Universiteit as an International Research Scholar. After completing his PhD in 2003, he was taken on as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

  Andrew's research interests are wide ranging, having done historical research in the USA, conducted fieldwork in Scotland, Croatia, Cyprus, and numerous places in the Near East, with a special concentration on Syria. Andrew studies the archaeology of the 5th to the 1st millennium BC for much of the eastern Mediterranean basin, northern Africa, western and central Asia and southeastern Europe.

  Andrew's first encounter with Cyprus was in 2001 and he has continued to work here since 2006, mainly in the Paphos district. He is the director of a landscape study in Cyprus, the Dhiarizos Viewshed Analysis Project (DVAP), which aims to interpret the ancient landscape of a region of Cyprus using GIS and Viewshed Analysis techniques. He also directs the Prastion-Mesorotsos Archaeological Expedition, a multidisciplinary field project related to a prehistoric site in western Cyprus. Additionally, Andrew is a close collaborator on several other major fieldwork projects in Cyprus including the Excavations at Souskiou-Laona Settlement and Cemetery (Edinburgh) and Excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia (Manchester).

• Executive Assistant

  The Executive Assistant is Vathoulla Moustoukki, a Cypriot who has been with CAARI for over twenty-five years and who provides important continuity, personal commitment, and institutional memory.

• Librarian

  With the retirement of Diana Constantinides, Evi Karyda joined CAARI as librarian in October 2008. Evi did her undergraduate studies in history and archaeology at the University of Cyprus, and received an MA in Greek and Roman archaeology from the University of Newscastle Upon Tyre in the United Kingdom.

In the United States

• CAARI's office is located at the American Schools of Oriental Research Headquarters at Boston University in Boston, MA, 656 Beacon Street (fifth floor), Boston, MA 02215-2010.