Dr. Max Peers is an architectural historian and archaeologist of the ancient Mediterranean whose research examines the social dimensions of the Roman construction industry. He received his doctorate from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in May 2025 and has subsequently taught at Providence College and Rhode Island College. Dr. Peers studies the development of technology, the transmission of knowledge, and human mobility in the central Mediterranean between ca. 500 BCE and 500 CE through architectural and archaeological remains. He includes collaborative hands-on activities and projects in the classroom so that students engage directly with the material they are studying. Both his research and teaching are rooted in an embodied approach to ancient material culture that crosses disciplinary boundaries to better account for the full human experience of ancient production.