Kay Sunahara

Technician (Ancient Greece & Rome)

Interests: Museums and collection care | Archaeology, Archaeometry | Ceramic analysis, Ceramic petrology | Research Design in Archaeology | Regional studies and socio-economies

Exhibitions & Galleries: Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean | Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Rome and the Near East | Eaton Gallery of Rome | Gallery of Greece | Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Byzantium | A.G. Leventis Foundation Gallery of Ancient Cyprus

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Bio

Ph.D., Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, 2003

M.A., Anthropology, Trent University, Peterborough, 1995

B.A., Anthropology & Fine Art History, University of Toronto, 1992

Kay Sunahara joined the Ancient Greece & Rome section in ROM’s Department of Art and Culture in 2010. She currently manages collections of archaeological materials from the Mediterranean region as well as prehistoric Europe. Dr. Sunahara also oversees the operation of ROM’s Ceramic Petrology Laboratory. An anthropologically trained archaeologist, Dr. Sunahara’s research and fieldwork has predominantly focused on Mesoamerica with specific emphasis on the ancient Maya of Belize and Mexico.

In 2019, Dr. Sunahara was cross appointed to the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. In this capacity, she teaches courses on the applications of polarized light microscopy in archaeological research, ceramic analyses, and archaeometry.