Profile

I am an archaeologist of the Roman Empire. I specialise in the study of sexuality, gender and the body in Roman visual culture and the archaeology of Roman Greece. My work connects archaeology and art history with queer feminist, new materialist and globalisation approaches.

My PhD thesis (UCL Institute of Archaeology, 2018) studied Roman ceramic lamps with sexual images. My project demonstrated that replicated lamp images and their iconographic mutations were connected to Roman cultural norms linked to the body, sexuality, and gender and that, in the province, sexuality was implicated in the broader Roman colonial discourses. I have published this research in the Journal of Roman Archaeology and the Journal of Social Archaeology.

Between 2022 and 2024, I worked as a Teaching Associate in Roman Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Between 2018 and 2022, I conducted my research in Greece, where I was associated with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens. I am a vice-chair of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) Standing Committee and a member of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ) Editorial Board. I have worked on archaeological fieldwork projects in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Serbia, the UK, and Australia.

I am currently working on my monograph, which retraces the living history of sexual lamp imagery and its impact on Roman art and society. Additionally, I am co-editing two books: a volume on cross-regionals and intercultural connectivity in Roman Greece and the sexual effects of Roman imperialism.