About me:  I teach in William and Mary's Classical Studies department, including classes on Roman archaeology and art, Roman social history, the ancient city of Pompeii, the region of Roman Egypt, and Latin language and literature.  My scholarship treats the importation of ancient Egyptian artworks and artifacts into Italy after Egypt was made into a Roman territory.

This just in!  Classical Studies major Elise Zevitz is going to be in Israel this summer, supported by a grant from the Nathan Jacobs foundation and by the Classical Studies' department Hogan Fund. Please check out her blog, describing her experiences.

For some of my favorite links related to antiquity, both academic and less serious (but still cool) see the sidebar

Selected Publications

"'Egyptian' Priests in Roman Italy," in Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. E. Gruen (Getty Research Institute, 2010)

"Aegyptus Redacta: Augustus’ obelisk in the Campus Martius"  (Art Bulletin, 2010) 

“Egypt Embodied: the Vatican Nile” (AJA July 2009) 

“Egyptian objects, Roman contexts: a taste for aegyptiaca in Italy,” in M. Versluys, P. Meyboom, and L. Bricault, eds. Nile into Tiber: Egypt in the Roman World Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, Leiden, May 11-14 2005. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World v. 159. Leiden: Brill, 2007: 113 – 136.

Teaching, 2010 - 2011

In Fall 2010, I will teach CLCV 490 "Egypt and the Roman World", a course that looks at the unique culture of Ptolemaic and Roman period Egypt -- focusing on social history and material culture.  I'll also be teaching an advanced Latin course on the Roman Historians, reading a number of sources relating to the life and biography of Augustus (focusing on Suetonius' life of Augustus).  In Spring 2011, I will teach Roman Art and Archaeology and Latin 102. 

My class at Pompeii and

the Roman Villa,

Washington DC Spring

2009