Education
- 2018 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- 2011 B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York, Classical Archaeology
- 2006 B.F.B, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Theatrical Set Design
Research
- Iron Age through Sasanian Iran and Southwest Asia
- Mobile pastoralist/sedentary relationships
- The South Caucasus (archaeology, history, and historiography)
- Landscape archaeology
- Economic history
- Numismatics
- Historiography of archaeology, with a focus on Russsophone traditions
Publications
Articles
- “Multifaceted Highlands: The Economy of Armenia and its South Caucasus Context.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. III, edited by S. von Reden, 441–504. De Gryuter, 2023 (forthcoming).
- “Economic Dynamics in the Arsakid Empire.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. II, edited by S. von Reden, 631–646. De Gryuter, 2022.
- Fabian, L. and E. J. S. Weaverdyck. “Economic Actors in the Hellenistic and Roman Empires: The Mediterranean and Southwest Asia.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. II, edited by S. von Reden, 63–146. De Gryuter, 2022.
- Weaverdyck, E. J. S. and L. Fabian. “Tools of Economic Activity in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: Empires and Coordination.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. II, edited by S. von Reden, 341–422. De Gryuter, 2022.
- Weaverdyck, E. J. S, L. Fabian, L. Morris, M. Dwivedi, and K. Lesse-Messing. “Constituting Local and Imperial Landscapes.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. II, edited by S. von Reden, 301–338. De Gryuter, 2022.
- “Bridging the Divide: Marriage Politics across the Caucasus.” Electrum, special issue, edited by A. Lichtenberger and G. Traina (2021): 221–244.
- “Beyond and yet In-between: The Caucasus and the Hellenistic Oikoumene.” In Common dwelling place of all the gods, edited by M. Blömer, S. Riedel, M. J. Versluys, E. Winter, 357–397. Steiner, 2021.
- “Albanians and Sarmatians: Overlapping Identities in the Eastern Caucasus.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, edited by G. R. Tsetskhladze, 641–650. Archaeopress, 2021.
- “Стеклянные сосуды из памятников Восточного Кавказа V в. до н.э. – IV в. н.э.” [Glass vessels from the monuments of the east Caucasus, 5th c. BCE–4th c. CE]. In Археологическое наследие Кавказа: актуальные проблемы изучения и сохранения. XXXI Крупновские чтения, edited by М. C. Гаджиев, 281–283. Мавраевь, 2020.
- “Albania in Greek and Latin Texts: The Use and Utility of ‘Views from the West.’” In From Albania to Arrān: The East Caucasus between the Ancient and Islamic Worlds (ca. 330 BCE–1000 CE), edited by R. Hoyland, 13–30. Gorgias, 2020.
- “Palmyra und Hatra – Mehr als Karawanenstädte in der Wüste.” Antike Welt 51, no. 5 (2020): 19–24.
- “The Meanings of Coins in the Ancient Caucasus.” Historische Anthropologie 27, no. 1 (2019): 32–51.
- “The Arsakid Empire.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. I, edited by S. von Reden, 205–240. De Gryuter, 2020.
- “Russian Perspectives on Eurasian Pasts.” In Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies: Vol. I, edited by S. von Reden, 581–618. De Gryuter, 2020.
- Eminli, C.T., L. Fabian, E.Ə. İskəndərov, S. Fişman, S. Nugent, T.T. Hüseynova, and H. Lau. “Antik dövr üzrə Lerik arxeologi ekspedisiyasinin Azərbaycan-ABŞ birgə tədqiqatlarinin ilkin nəticələri (2016-cı il).” In Azərbaycanda arxeoloji tədqiqatlar 2015–2016, 471–477. AMEA, 2018.
- “Moving in the Mountains: GIS and Mapping the Phenomenology of Travel Through the South Caucasus.” In Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia: Finding Common Ground in Diverse Environments, edited by W. Anderson, K. Hopper, and A. Robinson, 23–35. OREA, 2018.
- Fishman, S., J. Eminli, L. Fabian, and E. Iskenderov. “In the Mountains, Between Empires: A First Season of Azerbaijani-American Fieldwork in Lerik.” Expedition Magazine (2017): 47–49.
- “Notes of Material Importance: Archival Archaeology in the South Caucasus.” Archives Journal (2017).
- “Numismatic Communities of the Northern South Caucasus: Geospatial Analysis of 3rd c. BCE–3rd c. CE Coin Finds from Caucasian Iberia and Caucasian Albania.” In Sinews of Empire: Networks of the Roman Near East, edited by E. Seland and H. Teigen, 29–63. Oxbow, 2017.
- “The Starosselsky Collection: Imperial Histories and Cultural currencies.” American Numismatics Society Magazine 14, no.4 (2015): 6–17.
Reviews
- Iberia Caucasica. Ein Kleinkönigreich im Spannungsfeld großer Imperien. By Frank Schleicher. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (Forthcoming).
- Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World. By Duane W. Roller. The Classical Outlook 96.3 (2021): 137–138.
- “Prismatic Perspectives on the Pre-Islamic Empires of Persia.” Antiquity 92.364 (2018): 1118–1120.