Abbreviated CV

Education

  • BA, UC Berkeley, Classical Languages

  • MA, Duke University, Art History

  • Ph.D., Duke University, Art History

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington (2020- )

  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon (2018-2020)

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Bucknell University (2017-2018)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Classics, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2016-2017)

  • Visiting Scholar, School of Religion, University of Southern California (Spring 2017)

Books

  • Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece (2022, Cambridge University Press). Winner, 2023 First Book Award, CAMWS.

  • ed., with E. Isayev, E. Jewell, S. F. Adalı, B. Gray, S. Haddenbeck, T. Kaçar, and J. Mokrišová, Mobility in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World through Movement. Rethinking Antiquity. (Under contract with Routledge Press).

  • ed., with C. Concannon. Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. London: Routledge, 2016.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Building Outside the Lines: Networks, Women’s Agency, and Euergetism in the Egyptian Cults.” Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome 68, 210-54.

  • “Gender and Alterity in Provincial Portraiture: Reconsidering the Isiac Grave Reliefs of Roman Athens.” Hesperia 90(3), 605-40.

  • “Materializing Migration: Towards a Theory of Integration in Isiac Cults.” NTT (Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift): Journal for Theology and Religious Studies 75 (2), 177-94.

  • with K. Langenfeld and R. B. Gorham. “Reflexivity and Digital Praxis: Reconstructing Ostia’s Social Networks.” In S. Blakely and M. Daniels, ed., Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods: Conversations in Theory and Method. Forthcoming from Lockwood Press.

  • "An Isis Statuette from Amphipolis in Context." In R. Veymiers and L. Bricault, ed., Bibliotheca Isiaca IV. Bordeaux: Éditions Ausonius, 85-93.

  • "Fashioning a Global Goddess: The Representation of Isis Across Hellenistic Seascapes." In A. Kouremenos and J.M. Gordon, ed., Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 179-208.

  • "The Middle Platonic Isis: Text and Image in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Herodes Atticus' Marathon Villa." American Journal of Archaeology 122 (4), 611-44.

  • "Material and Textual Narratives of Authenticity? Creating Cabotage and Memory in the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean." In C. Concannon and L. Mazurek, ed., Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. London: Routledge Press, 39-64.

  • with C. Concannon. "Introduction: a New Connectivity for the 21st Century." In C. Concannon and L. Mazurek, ed., Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. London: Routledge Press, 1-17.

Selected Fellowships and Awards

  • Annual Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America.

  • Von Bothmer Publication Subvention, Archaeological Institute of America.

  • C. Brian Rose Archaeological Institute of America-Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Fellowship for Study in Berlin (2020, deferred)

  • Residential Research Scholarship, Hardt Foundation for the Study of Classical Antiquity (2020, deferred)

  • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2019-2020)

  • Shohet Scholarship, International Catacomb Society (2017-2019)

  • Seed funding, Onassis Foundation (2019)

  • Faculty Research Fellow, Oregon Humanities Center (2019-2020)

Recent Presentations

  • 2024 Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. “Movement and Ritual in Portraiture: The Kinetic Echo.”

  • Langford Colloquium, “City & Cult in Roman Greece,” Florida State University. “Portraits as Documents of Ritual in Imperial Greece.”

  • Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, “The Portrait as a Ritual Actor in Roman Thessaloniki’s Sacred Quarter.”

  • Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Split, Croatia. “Portraits in the Sacred Landscapes of Roman Thessaloniki’s Sacred Quarter.” 2022.

  • Kosmos Society Open House series, Center for Hellenic Studies (virtual). “The Egyptian Goddess in White Marble: Isis, Materials and the Reconfiguration of Greekness in the Roman Empire.”

  • 3rd North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. “Inscriptions and Permanence: Memory, Spoliation, and Social Networks at Ostia and Dion,” (with K. Langenfeld). 2020.

  • Workshop Co-Organizer (with D. Wright): “Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons.” Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2020.

  • “‘Non Graecos minus barbaros quam Romanos puto’ : Les Romains et les Grecs de leur temps,” École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France. “Ethnicity on the Ground: Italians, Egyptian Cults, and Relationships with Greek Communities in the Late Republic.” 2019.

  • Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. “Conceptualizing Connectivity in Ostia Antica: the 2018 Field Season of the Ostia Connectivity Project,” (with C. Concannon, K. Langenfeld, R.B. Gorham, and A. Meyer). 2019.

  • “Digital Cartography Conference: New Maps, Ancient History,” Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. “Mapping Social History: New Approaches to Epigraphy at Ostia,” (with C. Concannon). 2018.

  • Margins of the Mediterranean Workshop, Mediterranean Seminar. University of Michigan. “Self-Fashioning: Isiac Portraiture in a Provincial Context.” 2018.

Service to the Profession

  • Felicia A. Holton Book Award Committee, Archaeological Institute of America

  • Editorial Board, Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture (SPAAA) Series, Archaeological Institute of America and Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

  • Standing Committee on Information Technology, Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

  • Communications Coordinator, Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group, Archaeological Institute of America.