Scholarship and Biography

I research and teach courses on Roman Art, Archaeology, Civilization, Culture, Engineering, Ancient Medicine, Technology, and Daily Life; on Pompeii, Herculaneum; on Greek Art and Archaeology; on Latin Language and Literature (in Latin and in translation); and on Mythology in Greek and Roman Art and Text and on Greece, Rome, Myth, and the Movies.

Honors

Louis D. Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1988-1989
Fellowship
Whiting Foundation (United States, Brooklyn), 1992
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (Mary Bunting)
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 1993-1994
Kermit H. Perlmutter Award for Teaching Excellence
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1996-1997
American Philological Association National Award for Excellence in Teaching as "one of the best professors of classics in the United States and Canada"
Society for Classical Studies (United States, Philadelphia) - SCS, 1997-1998
Named a Senior Research Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States, Cambridge) - MIT, 2001-2002
The Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2006
Furthermore Grants in Publishing for The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Supply
J.M. Kaplan Fund (United States, New York), 2014
Davis Teaching Fellow
University of California, Davis (United States, Davis) - UCD, 2014-2015
National Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, awarded in San Francisco, California, January 7, 2016
Archaeological Institute of America (United States, New York) - AIA, 2016
Davis Teaching Mentor
University of California, Davis (United States, Davis) - UCD, 2016-2017
Appointed Associate Visiting Scholar
American Academy In Rome (Italy, Rome) - AAR, 2018-2019
Elected by the Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome to the Executive Committee of the AAR, 5-member committee overseeing activities and events for the Rome Prize Fellows in Rome
American Academy In Rome (Italy, Rome) - AAR, 2020-2023
Offered Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology (declined)
Archaeological Institute of America (United States, New York) - AIA, 2021
Appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
Archaeological Institute of America (United States, New York) - AIA, 2022/2023

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emerita of Classical Studies, Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Brandeis University

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ph.D.
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
M.A.