#lang scribble/base @(require "../Bibliography/cite.rkt" scriblib/footnote "../Images/image-support.rkt") @define-cite-footnote[footnote make-footnote cite-footnote] @title[#:style '(toc-hidden unnumbered)]{Acknowledgements} It is difficult to write an acknowledgments section without feeling like it will be inadequate. A project like this takes years, and I am fully aware just how many family members and friends lent their support. To everyone who gave encouraging words in times of doubt, who dropped off cookies or fruit at our doorstep in sessions of mad writing towards another deadline, I am truly grateful. Thank you in particular to my advisor, Nicholas Cahill, for supporting the topic of this dissertation and providing much advice, including the suggestions of the particular archaeological sites which became the focus of this dissertation. Thank you also to the other members of my committee for their time and guidance: William Aylward, Marc Kleijwegt, Laura McClure, and Ann Smart Martin. Extra thanks to Ann for providing me with an opportunity which occurred in the middle of this dissertation, the William Ramsay ledger website, which helped me branch out into digital humanities directions. Thank you to my MA advisor, Sinclair Bell, for his continued support. Thanks also to the Racket programming language community, who took interest and helped provide advice and debugging when hearing about my unusual choice to write this dissertation in Racket's Scribble document authoring programming language. Sebastián E. Encina and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology granted access to the Karanis database and collections, which provided significant grounding and evidence for many of the key ideas in this dissertation. Thank you, and thank you also for permitting me to take pictures of your wonderful collection of spindle whorls. Thanks to my parents, who dealt with the stubbornness of and even supported an unusual middle-schooler who set her heart and mind on achieving an art history PhD at such a young age. I'm glad to be able to share with you that I made it to that goal at last. Sara Champlin has been my friend and colleague through my entire PhD program. Thank you for the many hours spent bouncing ideas off of each other. It has been much easier being able to go through this process with someone I trust and admire so much. Thank you also to Jamie Sprovach. Your friendship, along with your stubborn and enthusiastic support for my ambitions, have never been lost on me for all these years. Finally, thank you to my spouse Christopher, to whom this dissertation is dedicated. You always brought me tea and reminded me I needed to eat, you never lost belief that I would make it, and wouldn't allow me to either.