Priscilla Mollard
Priscilla is the founder of Rivulus Dominarum Bioarchaeology and the project's Primary Investigator. Her work with the Piaţa Cetăţii collection began in 2017, when she came to Baia Mare under the National Science Foundation’s Culture and Heritage in European Societies and Spaces Grant (NSF:IIA-1261172), and has been supported since then by a Fulbright Fellowship as well as several grants and fellowships from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Priscilla is a biocultural bioarchaeologist with a background in mortuary archaeology and field experience in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, the American Southwest, and Romania. Her primary objective with the Piaţa Cetăţii collection lies in exploring the selective factor that living in a medieval Transylvanian mining town may have played in determining health, mortality, and social relationships in Rivulus Dominarum. To that end, her research interests include biocultural approaches, the archaeology of mining and mining heritage, community-integrated bioarchaeologies, and the use of dietary isotopes to shed light on health and social status at Piaţa Cetăţii.
Crystal Miller
Crystal Miller is an Australian bioarchaeologist and Co-Director of the Rivulus Dominarum Bioarchaeology Project, a role she has held since 2023. She completed a Bachelor of Archaeology with a specialisation in Human Biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where she developed a particular research interest in the bioarchaeology of violence, mass graves, and commingled human remains.
Since relocating to Romania in 2025, Crystal has completed a B1 certificate in Romanian language at the University of Bucharest and is currently undertaking a Master’s degree in Archaeological Science (Bioarchaeology) and Medieval Studies in Romanian at UniBuc. Her research focuses on the interpretation of skeletal trauma and violence within their broader social and archaeological contexts, particularly in relation to mass-grave formation and commingled assemblages.
Her wider methodological interests include isotopic analysis, 3D photogrammetry, and the development of archaeological and osteological databases. Through Rivulus Dominarum, she is particularly interested in integrating these approaches with traditional osteological analysis to investigate the lived experiences of past communities.