Clara McCafferty Wright

Ph.D. Student in Classics

Klarman Hall

cmw272@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Mary Danisi

Visiting Lecturer

Klarman Hall

mcd245@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Classics, Cornell University, 2024

B.A., Classics, Barnard College of Columbia University, 2017

Departments and programs

Alan van den Arend

ALI Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Klarman Hall

143 Klarman Hall
arv24@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins (2022)
  • M.A. w/ distinction, History, Johns Hopkins (2020)
  • M.A., Classics, University of Kentucky (2017)
  • A.B., Classics, Cornell (2010)

Departments and programs

Ruth Portes

Ph.D. Candidate in Classics

Klarman Hall

rdp226@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Olivia Graves

Ph.D. Candidate in Classics

Klarman Hall

og84@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Claire Challancin

Ph.D Candidate in Classics

Klarman Hall

cc2667@cornell.edu

Education

Claire Challancin received her BA summa cum laude with a double major in Classical Languages and Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2019.

Departments and programs

Sophia Taborski

Ph.D. Candidate in Classics

Klarman Hall

skt47@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Rebecca Gerdes

Visiting Lecturer in Classics

Klarman Hall

120 Goldwin Smith Hall
rfg75@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D. Classics (Classical Archaeology), Cornell University '24

M.A. Classics (Classical Archaeology), Cornell University '19

M.Sc. Archaeological Science, U. of Oxford '16

A.B. Chemistry and Classics, Smith College '15

Departments and programs

Keywords

  • Organic residue analysis
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Archaeology of Greece, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Foodways, food networks, and food practices
  • Biomolecular archaeology
  • Archaeological sciences
  • Science communication

Astrid Van Oyen

Associate Professor

Publications

Books:

  • The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press. 2020 
  • How Things Make History. The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2016

Edited volume:

  • Materialising Roman Histories.  Ed. with Pitts, Martin. Oxford: Oxbow. 2017

Academic Articles:

  • Van Oyen, A., G.W. Tol, R.G. Vennarucci, A. Agostini, V. Serneels, A.M. Mercury, E. Rattighieri and A. Benatti. Forging the Roman rural economy: a blacksmithing workshop and its toolset at Marzuolo (Tuscany). American Journal of Archaeology 126(1): 53-77. 2022
  • Innovation and investment in the Roman rural economy through the lens of Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy). Past & Present 248: 3-40. 2020
  • Van Oyen, A., R.G. Vennarucci, A.L. Fischetti and G. Tol. Un centro artigianale di epoca romana: terzo anno di scavo a Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, GR). Bollettino di Archeologia Online 10(3-4): 71-84. 2019
  • Rural time. World Archaeology 51(2): 191-207. 2019
  • Agents and commodities: a response to Brughmans and Poblome (2016) on modelling the Roman economy.  Antiquity 91: 1356-1363. 2017
  • Historicising material agency: from relations to relational constellations.  Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.  23: 354-378. 2016
  • Actor-Network Theory’s take on archaeological types: becoming, material agency, and historical explanation.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal.  25: 63-78. 2015
  • Deconstructing and reassembling the Romanization debate through the lens of postcolonial theory: from global to local and back?.  Terra Incognita.  5: 205-226. 2015
  • The Roman city as articulated through terra sigillata.  Oxford Journal of Archaeology.  34: 279-299. 2015
  • The moral architecture of villa storage in Italy in the 1st c. B.C.  Journal of Roman Archaeology.  28: 97-124. 2015
  • Les acteurs-réseaux en archéologie: état de la question et perspectives futures.  Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie 135: 14-21. 2014
  • Towards a postcolonial artifact analysis.  Archaeological Dialogues 20: 79-105. 2013

Chapters:

  • Van Oyen, A., G.W. Tol and R.G. Vennarucci. The missing link: a nucleated rural centre at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano - Grosseto). In Archaeological Landscapes of Rural Etruria. Research and Field Papers (MEDITO 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 237-250. 2021
  • Duckworth, C.N., A. Wilson, A. Van Oyen, C. Alexander, J. Evans, C. Green and D.J. Mattingly. When the statue is both marble, and lime. In Recycling and the Ancient Economy, eds. C.N. Duckworth and A. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 449-459. 2020
  • Material agency. In The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, ed. S.L. López-Varela. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0363. 2018
  • Vennarucci, R., A. Van Oyen and G.W. Tol. Una comunità artigianale nella Toscana rurale: Il sito di Marzuolo. In Antico e non antico. Scritti multidisciplinari offerti a Giuseppe Pucci, eds. V. Nizzo and A. Pizzo. Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis Edizioni, 589-597. 2018
  • Material culture and mobility: A brief history of archaeological thought. In Mobility and Pottery Production, eds. Heitz, Caroline and Regine Stapfer. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 53-65. 2018
  • Material culture in the Romanization debate. In The Diversity of Classical Archaeology. Studies in Classical Archaeology 1, eds. Lichtenberger, Achim and Rubina Raja. Turnhout: Brepols, 287-300. 2017
  • Van Oyen, A. and M. Pitts. What did objects do in the Roman world? Beyond representation. In Materialising Roman Histories, eds. Van Oyen, Astrid and Martin Pitts. Oxford: Oxbow, 3-19. 2017
  • Finding the material in ‘material culture’: form and matter in Roman concrete. In Materialising Roman Histories, eds. Van Oyen, Astrid and Martin Pitts. Oxford: Oxbow, 133-152. 2017
  • Networks or work-nets? Actor-Network Theory and multiple social topologies in the production of Roman terra sigillata.  In The Connected Past. Network Studies in Archaeology and History. Eds. Brughmans, Tom, Anna Collar, and Fiona Coward.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press. 35-56. 2016
  • Knowledge systems in the production of terra sigillata. Moving beyond the local/global paradox.  In TRAC 2011. Proceedings of the Twenty First Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Newcastle 2011. Ed. Duggan, M.  Oxford: Oxbow. 2012

Reviews:

  • Globalisation and material culture: the road ahead, review of M. Pitts and M.J. Versluys (eds) (2015) Globalisation and the Roman World. World History, Connectivity, and Material Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Roman Archaeology 28, 641-646. 2015
  • Review of C. Orton and M. Hughes (2013) Pottery in Archaeology. Second Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Roman Studies 104, 261-262. 2014
  • Review of C. Knappett (2011) An Archaeology of Interaction. Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 27 (2), 220-228. 2012
Klarman Hall

Departments and programs

Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Publications

Books

  • The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts Nor Forgeries. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012 (paperback 2016).
  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009 [English translation of Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Civilisations et sociétés 115. Paris: Éd. de l’EHESS, 2003].
  • Musarna. 3, La nécropole impériale. Collection de l’École française de Rome 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009.
  • In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans l’Occident latin. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 283. Rome: École française de Rome, 1994.

Edited volumes

  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010.
  • Economie et religion dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel.  Special issue of Antiquité tardive 14 (2006): 15-116.
  • Hellénisme et christianisme. Edited by Michel Narcy and Éric Rebillard. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
  • Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, christianity, history. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Edited by Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano, Rome: École française de Rome, 2000.
  • L’évêque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle: image et autorité. Collection de l’École française de Rome 248. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 1998.
Klarman Hall

120 Goldwin Smith Hall
er97@cornell.edu
607/255-8640

Education

Professor Rebillard received his PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1993 and is a former member of the Ecole française de Rome. He came at Cornell in 2004 after having held a research position in the French CNRS between 1996 and 2003.

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