Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
70 Waterman St.
Providence RI 02912

PhD Candidate
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

MA Student
Public Humanities

Brown University

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Classics and the construction of race in America
• Colonialism/post-colonialism
• Archaeological theory
• Archaeological ethics
• Ancient literacy
• Race/ethnicity and archaeology
• Public history of slavery in the United States
• Museums and Ethnic Identity in the United States
• Archaeology of Early Roman Spain

Current Projects

• Visitor studies and program evaluations for the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.

• Images of Slaves on Southern and Confederate Paper Money
  Research project for the American Numismatic Society Graduate Seminar, on the distribution and origin of slavery imagery on bank notes and related printed materials (train tickets, war bonds, etc) between 1820-1880.

• Museums and Slavery in the UK
  A look at the ways the ways that various museums in the UK are acknowledging and drawing attention to the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade.

• African Americans and the History of Washington D.C.
  Research project for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, for future walking tours and exhibits on the Mall.

• Constructive Fire: Nero and the Great Fire of Rome
  Comparison of the rebuilding of several cities after major disasters, with an eye to the effects of trauma, size of affected population, and power structures in each case, to flesh out our understanding of the aftermath of the fire in Rome in 66 AD.

• Playing around with the etymology and resonances of the word "colonial" in English and Spanish

Past Projects

• Local histories and national identities: factors shaping the archaeology of Roman Sexi (Almuñécar, Spain)
• Ethnic Conflict and the Roman Conquest of Spain
• Colonial Origins: New Approaches to Archaeology, History, and Ethnicity at Metapontum
• Ancient letter writing: assessing the forms of literacy in the ancient world
• Archaeology and Text: approaches to integrating literary sources and material evidence
• Archaeological stewardship in theory and in practice: the responsibilities of the archaeologist in protecting archaeological sites
• Examination of a possible forgery (small bust of Elagabalus?) at the Brooklyn Museum of Art