LYRA D. MONTEIRO
211 Waterman Street, #2
Providence, RI 02906
401-261-3441
Lyra_Monteiro@brown.edu
EDUCATION
Brown University
PhD Candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (estimated degree date: Spring 2010)
MA student in Public Humanities (estimated degree date: Fall 2008)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Classical Art and Archaeology MA (2006)
Classical Studies-Latin MA (2006)
New York University
Summa cum laude BA (2004)
Major: Anthropology and Classical Civilization
Minors: Religious Studies, Spanish, Chemistry
WORK EXPERIENCE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
Via Sacra Excavation, Rome, Italy (Summer 2005)
- Student volunteer on the excavation of a late Republican/early Imperial laundry and its associated drainage system, located along the Via Sacra which connects the Roman Forum and the Colosseum
Metaponto Field Survey, Italy (Summer/Fall 2003)
- Field walker on the University of Texas at Austin Institute of Classical Archaeology survey of the agricultural land associated with the Greek city of Metaponto, Italy, seeking to determine the settlement history of the area from Neolothic to Medieval times
John Milner, Assoc., Greenbelt, MD (Summer 2002)
- Field technician on Cultural Resource Management excavations of one pre-historic and two historic sites, in preparation for the construction of a new road at NASA facility
Alexandria Archaeology, Alexandria, VA (Summer 2002)
- Volunteer excavator at Shuter’s Hill in Virginia on a late 18th/early 19th century site, helped train new volunteers
Mount Vernon Estate, Alexandria VA (Summer 2002)
- Volunteer excavator at the site of George Washington’s Distillery
Silchester Roman Town, England (Summer 2001)
- Learned basic excavation techniques at field school run by the University of Reading
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. (Summer 2007-present)
- Performed research on the history of African Americans and the Mall in Washington, D.C. for an exhibit scheduled to be part of the opening of the new Smithsonian museum (estimated to be in 2015)
RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI (Winter 2008-present)
- Developed, implemented, and analyzed the results of a variety of evaluative tools for the Education Department, including surveys of visitors and observations of programs.
American Numismatic Society, New York, NY (Summer 2007)
- Learned basic techniques of numismatic research
- Catalogued and analyzed images of black slaves on paper money from southern states, between 1810-1880
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal (Summer 2005)
- Participated in a workshop on Roman osteology, in which I studied human anatomy, basic paleopathology, and aging and sexing of human remains
- Worked on identification and cataloguing of the museum’s collection of fragmentary human remains from burials and cremations from the Roman site of Troia, Portugal
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (2001-2002)
- Worked under the supervision of Dr. Edna Ann Russman of the BMA and Professor Larissa Bonfante on the identification and authentication of a miniature Roman bust in the museum’s collection which lacked provenance (Fall 2002)
- Assisted in the maintenance of slide and photograph collections, general departmental office work, and preparation for the April 2003 reinstallation of the Egyptian Art galleries
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Brown University, Providence, RI (Fall 2006)
- As teaching assistant for Professor Sue Alcock, I prepared and delivered 50-minute lectures for an undergraduate course on “Food and Drink in Classical Antiquity” (enrollment 55); designed class activities, graded student work, helped prepare syllabus, and designed a course wiki for web-based information exchange as an extension of and preparation for classroom work
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Spring 2006)
- As a Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Steven Ellis's "Introduction to Roman Archaeology", I designed and taught three weekly discussion sections of 15-20 students, in connection with a large lecture course, and delivered one guest lecture to the entire class of approximately 200 students
Kaplan Test Prep, New York, NY (2002-2004)
- Taught Kaplan SAT and GRE test-taking methods and strategies to classes of 10-30 students, ranging widely in ability and background
- Primarily taught classes at public high schools Seward Park and Maury Bergtraum on the Lower East Side, where many students speak English as a second language
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington DC (Summer 2002)
- Worked with the membership and development offices, updating databases, recording donations, and organizing files
New York University, New York, NY (2001)
- As an Office Assistant at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, I coordinated the incoming and outgoing paperwork for an interdepartmental faculty search, in addition to maintaining and building the Center’s mailing list, and performing general office tasks
- As an Office Assistant in the School of Law Student Records Office, I assisted in a busy office, responding to the needs of students and law faculty, preparing mass mailings, and typing letters
PRESENTATIONS
- "Beyond Awareness: British Museums and 'Abolition 200' ", at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 2009
- "Including Immigrants: How Art Museums Can Bring Together Old and New Americans", at the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2008
- "Classical Culture as American Heritage", at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque, NM, February 2008
- "Ethnicity and Conflict in the Roman Conquest of Spain", at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London, March 2007
- "Trauma and the rejection of Nero’s nova urbs", at University of Michigan Graduate Student Conference "Clamor ad Caelum: Disaster and Antiquity", Ann Arbor, MI, February 2007
- "Theory and Practice in Archaeological Stewardship", at 2006 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, January 2006
- "How to Read Written Space: a reconsideration of Vitruvius’s De Architectura" at University of North Carolina graduate colloquium, "House, Home and Household", Chapel Hill, NC, April 2005
- "Greek Identity in Southern Italy: Foundation Stories and Archaeology at Metapontum" at University of Michigan graduate student conference, "Wandering but not Lost: Apodemia/Peregrinatio", February 2005
- Respondent to discussion of "The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity" by Benjamin Isaac at University of Michigan, Martin Luther King Day symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, January 2005
- Presented results of honors thesis research at NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2004
PUBLICATIONS
- with Daniel Shoup, "When Past and Present Collide: the Ethics of Archaeological Stewardship" in Current Anthropology, Volume 49, Number 2, April 2008
- "Ethnicity and Conflict in the Roman Conquest of Spain" for the Proceedings of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference 2007, 2008
- "The Present in the Past: Globalization and the Roman World", a review of R. Hingley Globalizing Roman Culture, in Journal of Roman Archaeology, Volume 20, 2007
- "A Silver Stater from Metapontum, Italy, in the Kelsey Museum" in The University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology Bulletin, Volume XVI, 2005-2006
- "Colonial Origins: New approaches to history, archaeology, and ethnicity at Metapontum" a research abstract in the NYU College of Arts and Science’s Inquiry: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume IX, 2005
- "Building Outside the Grid: Understanding Variations from Typical Roman Town Planning at Silchester," a research abstract in the NYU College of Arts and Science’s Inquiry: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume VI, 2002
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Organizer of Brown University Mellon Graduate Workshop, "The Work of 'History': Politics, identity, and the narration of the past(s)", for 2008-2009
- Co-organizer of the session "Up from the Ashes: Creativity and Conservatism in Rebuilding after Disasters" for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Assisted organizing "Sharing Stories: Interpreting African American History for New England and the Nation", a workshop sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2007
- Co-organizer for sessions "Living on the Edge: Cultural Intersections in Borders Zones" and "When Past and Present Collide: the Ethics of Archaeological Stewardship" at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Member of the Student Paper Award Committee (2006-2008) and the Student Affairs Interest Group (since 2005) of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Student representative of the Ann Arbor Chapter of the Archaeology Institute of America, 2004-2005
MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS
- Joukowsky Presidential Fellowship, Brown University, 2006-2010
- Mellon Fellowship for Humanistic Studies, 2004-2005
- NYU College of Arts and Science Faculty Memorial Award, 2004
- John J. Winkler Memorial Prize, 2004 (for work in a risky or marginal field of classics)
- Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, May 2003
OTHER SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
- University of Michigan, IPCAA Summer Research grant, 2005
- Univeristy of Michigan, Rackham Travel Grant, 2005 and 2006
- NYU John J. Winkler Memorial Prize, 2004
- NYU Classics Department Lionel Casson Prize, 2004
- NYU College of Arts and Science Faculty Memorial Award, 2004
- NYU College of Arts and Science Presidential Honors Scholar, 2000-2004
- US Department of Education Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, 2000-2004
- NYU College of Arts and Science Hugh and Geraldine Fryer Research Scholar in Classics, 2001 and 2003
- NYU Antonina S. Ranieri International Study Grant for Ancient Studies, 2003
- NYU CAS Rudin Internship Scholarship, 2002
- NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Study Abroad Scholarship, 2002
