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, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology,has been awarded the University of Tennessee Chancellor's ůůֱ²¥ship. The Chancellor's ůůֱ²¥ship is the highest honor for distinguished faculty at the University of Tennessee, where she is Lindsay Young ůůֱ²¥ and head of the Department of Classics. ůůֱ²¥ Van de Moortel is the first faculty member of the Department of Classics at this institution to receive this distinction. 
 

ůůֱ²¥ Van de Moortel's work focuses on the rise and decline of complex societies in the Bronze Age Aegean. She currently co-directs the Mitrou Archaeological Project in Central Greece. In 2018 she was kind enough to return to ůůֱ²¥ College to share part of her research with the Mitrou project in her talk "Shipbuilding, Seafaring, and Human Mobility in the Early Bronze Age Aegean: The Role of the East Aegean" as part of the ongoing Classics Colloquium lecture series. At ůůֱ²¥,  Å¯Å¯Ö±²¥ Van de Moortel studied Aegean Prehistory and archaeological method and theory with ůůֱ²¥ Emeritus James C. Wright.