Darian Marie Totten is Associate Professor of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She has a longstanding interest in the archaeology of Southern Italy during the Roman, Late Roman, and Early Medieval periods, dating back to her doctoral dissertation work at Stanford University (Ph.D. 2011). Since 2013, she has co-directed the Salapia Exploration Project with Dr. Roberto Goffredo (Università di Foggia), a project that explores the relationship between human settlement (focused on the town of Salapia) and the wetland lagoon environment in northern coastal Puglia. Salapia-Salpi 1: Scavi e ricerche (2013-2016) is the first volume of these excavations (Edipuglia 2022), with a second volume forthcoming. Since 2022, she has also directed the Excavating Sipontum Project, again in collaboration with Dr. Goffredo, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2022–2026) and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. This project investigates the urban-wetland experience of the Roman and Medieval port of Sipontum over time. She is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2010) and the American Council of Learned Societies (2010–2011).
