Tia Sager

Dr. Tia Sager (PhD, University of Toronto) is the interim Senior Research Associate at the Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS) at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Prior to returning to CDRS in 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires at the University of Helsinki, and interim Senior Research Associate at CDRS from 2023-2024. She completed her PhD in Aegean Bronze Age architecture and archaeology in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto in 2024. Her research focuses on the archaeology of architecture, social change, and social interaction in the Bronze and Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean. Her dissertation, “The Poetics and Politics of Space: A Regional Analysis of the Cretan Post-Palatial Built Environment” analyzed architectural change on the island of Crete after the Late Bronze Age palatial collapse using computational and digital methods, and she is working on a monograph based on her dissertation work. She is also co-editing a volume, Relational Approaches to Near Eastern Empires, with colleagues from the University of Helsinki. For the past ten years, she has been involved in several archaeological excavation projects in Greece as trench supervisor and architectural specialist.

 

Dr. Sager is available for consultations about digital humanities, computational methods, knowledge mobilization, and research creation.