FACULTY

The Institute faculty has been drawn from a pool of scholars well known for their innovative efforts to integrate the study of the Roman material world into more traditional studies of Roman literature and politics. The co-directors have complementary interests: Sander Goldberg, from UCLA’s Department of Classics, comes to the study of Roman spaces through the study of Roman literature, while Diane Favro, from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, builds her work upon a background in architecture and urbanistics. Investigation of our three target sites will be headed by a group of visiting scholars well known for their research in these areas: Harvard’s Kathleen Coleman, for the study of the Colosseum, Robert Morstein-Marx (UC Santa Barbara) and Joy Connolly (NYU) for the Roman Forum, and Mary Beard (Cambridge) for the Capitol. Oxford’s Nicholas Purcell will join our final, more theoretical discussion of urban design.

Our two British colleagues will be joining us via video conferencing technology, but all other visiting faculty will be on hand for instruction and private consultation during their sections of the program. We will also have a session with Dr. Kenneth Lapatin of the Getty Museum’s Department of Antiquities. The co-directors will of course be available continuously throughout the two-week period.