I am a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University specializing in ancient Roman art and archaeology, with a focus on sculpture and portraiture. My dissertation provides a reexamination of the portraits of Rome’s third-century emperors. While previous scholarship has interpreted these portraits as indicators of an empire in crisis, I analyze the portrait monuments alongside evidence from the archaeological record and contemporary textual sources to demonstrate the elevated role that imperial portraits came to serve during the third century in articulating imperial ideology and negotiating the emperor’s place within the longue durée of Roman history and memory. My dissertation has been generously supported by both short- and long-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships from Boston University, a BU Arts Initiative Graduate Research Grant,  the Lemmermann Foundation, and the Mark Mobius Student Research and Travel Endowment Fund.

In 2021, I served as the Stavros Niarchos Fellow in Classical Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I have also worked with the Tufts University Art Galleries, Princeton University Art Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Boston University Art Galleries. Previously, I have also participated in several archaeological projects located throughout the Mediterranean basin, including the Gabii Project (central Italy), Azoria Project (Crete, Greece), Morgantina Souths Baths Project (Sicily, Italy), Omrit Excavation Project (Golan Heights, Israel), and served as a ceramics assistant for a study season with the French Excavation at Bi’r Samut (Dendara, Egypt).