Nikki is a Consulting Scholar for the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor at Salisbury University (MD). She is the founder and director of several projects, including the Plasters Analysis Project (PLAN) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum; the Indus-Aegean Research Network at the University of Oxford; the excavation simulators at Penn State University in Harrisburg and Marshall University. Her newest venture, the Aegean Bronze Age Study Initiative (ABASI), is a non-profit devoted to supporting undergraduate students in gaining archaeological experience overseas, from excavation, study, research, and scientific materials analysis to archaeological illustration and reconstructions, conference presentations, and publication.

She participates in several active archaeological projects in Greece, among which are the Stelida, Naxos Peak Sanctuary Project (SPS) and the Stelida, Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP); Mochlos Archaeological Project; and Sissi Archaeological Project. She maintains regular publication of transdisciplinary and collaborative projects, some of which have been featured by Smithsonian, New Scientist, and other news outlets – both archaeological and not -- around the world.

For more information, please visit her website: https://marienicolepareja.wixsite.com/home