Research Interests
Imperial women of Rome; imperial Roman history; city of Rome; Tacitus.
Three current projects are:
Three current projects are:
- Biography of Agrippina the Younger (under contract with OUP).
- “Julio-Claudian Women and War.” Chapter for Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World, eds. E. Carney and S. Müeller. Leiden: Brill.“Representing Native Women in Roman Art.”
- Chapter for project Indigeneity and Empire: Comparing the Roman and American Experiences, eds. M. Maas and F. Yarbrough. University of Oklahoma Press.
Selected Grants
2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, May 3-6, 2012
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2012 - 2012Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Resident ·
March 2021
- April 2021
Awarded by: American Academy in Rome
Trinity Research Enhancement Award ·
2018
- 2019
Supervisor ·
Awarded by: Duke University
· $3,100.00
To support undergraduate research leading to graduation with distinction or undergraduate publication.
NEH Summer Stipend ·
September 2002
- October 2002
Awarded by: National Endowment for the Humanities
For travel to Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary for research on Pannonian steles
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers ·
1995
- 1996
Awarded by: National Endowment for the Humanities
For Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire
Gildersleeve Prize ·
1992
- 1992
Awarded by: American Journal of Philology
Awarded for “The Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C.,” AJPh 112 (1991) 513-40, deemed the best paper published in AJPh 1991.
Borso di Studio ·
May 1974
- June 1974
Awarded by: Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
Funding for summer Etruscology course.