Elizabeth Bews completed her MA in archaeology from Cornell University in December 2018. The title of her thesis is: “After Accession: EU Funding and Archaeological Practice in Bulgaria.” She was also accepted to present a paper at the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual conference in January 2020, titled “The Archaeology of Piracy: The Cilician Case” and will be presenting a paper at the SAAs in April 2020 titled “An Osteobiography of a Juvenile Individual from Papdomb, Transylvania.”