Prof. Sarah Malena is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, San Diego. Malena specializes in the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean world, with a special focus on intercultural exchange. She is the author of Fertile Crossroads: Elites and Exchange in the Southern Levant’s Early Iron Age (Equinox, 2024).