Education

B.A. in Latin, University of Mary Washington (formerly Mary Washington College), 1985
M.A. in Classics, University of Cincinnati, 1990
Ph.D. in Classics, concentration in Classical Archaeology, University of Cincinnati, 1998

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Current Research & Teaching Interests

Archaeology of Italy and the Roman Empire; Roman material culture and civilization; politics and propaganda in art and architecture; urban topography and monuments of Rome; monumentality in ancient art and architecture

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Recent Grants & Awards

• Weiss Presidential Fellow (award for excellence in undergraduate teaching), 19 May 2007, Tulane University, New Orleans [news link]
• Phase II Research Enhancment Grant ($12,520), for research in Italy, 2006-7, Tulane University, New Orleans
• Franklin Research Grant ($5,000), for research in Italy, summer 2005, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

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Publications

Book: (under contract at Collection Latomus, Belgium)

Creating Severan Rome: The Architecture and Self-Image of L. Septimius Severus 

Articles:

“Julia Domna's Coinage and Severan Dynastic Propaganda,” in Latomus  54 (1995) 119-140.

"The Septizodium in Rome: A Political Image in Monumental Style." In Casey, J., Warnement, M., Whelton, J. & Wingenter, A. (eds.), Layfayette, IN, Bordighera Press (2000): 201-15.

“Urban Planning and Sculptural Display in Severan Rome: Reconstructing the Septizodium and its Role in Dynastic Politics” in American Journal of Archaeology 108 (2004): 517-544.

“Battle Imagery and Politics on the Severan Arch in the Forum,” in S. Dillon and K. Welch (eds.), Representing War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006): 272-299.

"Redating the Septizodium and Severan Propaganda." In Mattusch, C., Donohue, A. & Brauer, A. (eds.), Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities (Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003). Oxford, Oxbow Books (2006): 196-9.

In progress  – “Bacchus and Hercules in Severan Rome: Re-examining the Colossal Temple on the Quirinal Hill.” Article in manuscript stage.

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Recent Conference Papers

2002

“The Imagery of War and the Severan Public Monuments,” CAMWS, April 4, Austin, TX

“Propaganda and the City: The Case of Severan Rome,” presented at the Association of Ancient Historians meeting , April 25-28, Savannah, GA

“War and Politics in Severan Art,” Southeastern College Art Conference, October 25, Mobile, AL

“The Date of the Septizodium: A New Proposal,” CAMWS Southern Section, November 7, Birmingham, AL

2003

“Redating the Septizodium and Severan Propaganda,” 16th International Congress, Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, August 23-26, Boston, MA

2004

“The Date of the Septizodium Reconsidered,” 105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 2-5, San Francisco, CA

2007

“Reconsidering the Colossal Temple on Rome’s Quirinal Hill,” 108th Annual Meeting of theArchaeological Institute of America, January 4-7, San Diego, CA

"Pompeii on the Mississippi: the view from New Orleans," at the 9th BIRTHA conference, Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination, 17-19 July 2007, University of Bristol, England

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Courses Taught at Tulane

LATN 303 Ovid
LATN 307: The Roman Novel (Petronius & Apuleius); Letters of Pliny
CLAS 312 / ARHS 312 Etruscans and Early Rome
CLAS 317/ ARHS 317 Greek Art and Archaeology
CLAS 318 / ARHS 318 Roman Art and Archaeology
CLAS 319 / ARHS 319 / HISA 319 Pompeii: Roman Culture and Society in Microcosm
CLAS 381-H / ARHS 391-H Art & Culture in the Roman Republic (honors special topic)
CLAS 418/ HISA 417 History of Roman Religion
CLAS 420/620 (ARHS 686) Seminar in Roman art and archaeology (topics: Roman Emperors as Builders; Ancient Painting & Mosaics; Roman Commemorative Monuments; Antonines & Severans; Topography of Rome)

TIDE 159-01  Responses to Disaster, Past and Present (freshman orientation course, 2006-2007)
TIDE 183-01 Loot, Plunder, & Pillage: Ethics in Archaeology and the Art Market (with service learning, 2008-present)