Team Directory

Mat Saunders

Founder and Executive Director / Program Director

Mat’s work at Davidson Day expands beyond the classroom and into Anthropology and Archaeology with AFAR. Not only does AFAR operate field schools every summer, but is host to two major conferences, provides a summer program for elementary students, and is building new programs to provide pre-collegiate students an opportunity to discover and learn about archaeology.

Staff, ArchaeologistMatt BensonDecember 4, 2018Cahal Pech, Mieza, Zorita, Troia

Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire

Director of Publications

Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire is co-organizer of the Maya at the Playa and Maya at the Lago Conferences. He is also the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of AFAR’s peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Mayanist.

StaffMaxime Lamoureux-St-HilaireNovember 21, 2018

Carl Gallela

Board Secretary - Communications Coordinator

Carl Gallela is a retired school administrator having spent 38 years as a professional educator in New Jersey. Carl earned an undergraduate degree from Belmont Abbey, a Master Degree from Glassboro College of New Jersey, and completed his doctoral work at Nova University, FL. With his wife, Barbara, he has two daughters and five grandchildren.