My research focuses on the relationships between religion, art, and Mediterranean globalization and connectivity in the Hellenistic and Roman world. I am currently preparing a monograph on the lived experiences of Egyptian sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Greece. Additionally, I am preparing an article on Middle Platonic philosophy and the Egyptian sanctuary at Marathon.

Together with Cavan Concannon of the University of Southern California, I have published on applications of Fernand Braudel's Mediterranean history to the ancient world. In 2016 we launched a new digital humanities project to study how individuals and groups in Roman Ostia construct regional and Mediterranean-wide social networks. Other past areas of research include Greco-Roman canon formation, ancient urbanization, and intersectional identities in the ancient world.

Areas of Specialty

• Classical art and archaeology
• Greek and Roman Sculpture
• Ancient religion
• Globalization

Academics

Ph.D. 2016, Duke University, "Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Isis and Sarapis Cults of Hellenistic and Roman Greece"
MA 2012, Duke University, Art History.
BA magna cum laude, 2008, UC Berkeley, Classical Languages

Publications

"Writing a Postmodern Art History of Classical Italy." Journal of Roman Archaeology 29 (2016).

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

"Material and Textual Narratives of Authenticity? Creating Cabotage and Memory in the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean." In C. Concannon and L. Mazurek, Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. London: Routledge Press, 2016. 39-64.

with C. Concannon. "Introduction: a New Connectivity for the 21st Century." Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. London: Routledge Press, 2016. 1-17.

“Reconsidering the Role of Egyptianizing Material Culture in Roman Greece.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 26 (2013), 503-12.

Current Projects

Embodying Isis. Sculpture, Architecture, and Religious Experience in the Egyptian Sanctuaries of Roman Greece. Monograph manuscript.

Digital Ostia Project: Digital Humanities Mapping Project for Ostian Inscriptions (with C. Concannon of the University of Southern California)

“An Intellectual Landscape? The Sanctuary to the Egyptian Gods at Herodes Atticus’ Villa at Marathon.”