Donald Haggis is Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics and Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a field archaeologist who has been conducting archaeological excavations and surveys in Greece for the past 36 years, working particularly on the island of Crete in the Greek Aegean. His main research interests include early state formation and the origins and emergence of early cities in the Aegean during the Bronze Age (ca. 2000 B.C.) and Early Iron Age (ca. 1000-700 B.C.). He is currently the director of excavations of an early Greek city at the site of Azoria in eastern Crete (https://azoria.unc.edu/).