B.A., Anthropology and History, University of Wyoming, 2013 M.A., Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, UC Berkeley, 2017
Black received her undergraduate education at the University of Wyoming, where she also completed fieldwork in the Roman world alongside historical and native American archaeology in Wyoming. Her undergraduate thesis considered issues of Roman identity and so-called “Romanisation.”
Her primary graduate fields of research are in Roman ceramics analysis and the archaeology of the Roman economy; she has worked with the Palatine East Pottery Project (PEPP)...
I am a Mediterranean archaeologist and ancient historian specializing in Hellenistic Anatolia. Prior to starting the AHMA program, I trained at the University of Michigan. I have also studied at Koç Üniversitesi (Ancient Languages of Anatolia) and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA Summer Session). Since 2023, I have been affiliated with Notion Archaeological Project, a Michigan project under the directorship of Professor Christopher Ratté.
My methodology sits at the intersection of literary sources and material...
My research is focused on the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period, and more specifically the regional identity of Kilikia. I have observed that the Seleukids’ conceptualization of Kilikia as a geographic area that was administratively detached from the rest of Asia Minor reflected, concurrently, actual and perceived differences between Kilikia and the other regional structures around it. Consequently, the Seleukids and, indeed, the Romans as their hegemonic successors, took an epistemological stance on the organization of their world when...
B. A., Classics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2020
I began my academic career at Hobart and William Smith Colleges where I double majored in Economics and Classics with honors. For my senior thesis, I conducted an heterodox economic analysis of Roman Red Sea trade; I argued for the inversion of Polanyi’s methods of economic integration, focusing on the intersection of market exchange and long-distance trade in the Egyptian Eastern Desert. At Berkeley, I have conducted more qualitative economic studies, focusing on the experience of laborers and the development of human capital...
Bryn Mawr College; B.A. Classical Languages / B.A. Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
My undergraduate research focused on ancient magical womb amulets as a mediator between the patient and body. I explored amulet, uterine, and user agency.
Apart from gynecological magic, my interests vary widely: Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and Middle Eastern magic, religion, and medicine; demonization; Phoenicians; patient-body relationships; ancient gynecology; disability; sensory archaeology; bioarchaeology; archaeobotany; papyrology; and cross-cultural interaction in the eastern...
My primary interests include Greek, Demotic, and Coptic papyrology, the archaeology of Greco-Roman Egypt, the archaeology of papyrology, and the physicality of ancient texts. I am passionate about diversifying the fields of Archaeology and Greco-Roman Classics to include those accounts of the people who have been historically oppressed and underrepresented. I have worked on translating unpublished papyri in Coptic and Greek for Bryn Mawr College and my recent work has been focused on lexicographical papyrology and the usage of lexical papyri.
I attained my BA with excellence in the History, Archaeology, and Literature of Ancient Greece from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) in 2025.
My primary interest is in the movement and migration of Greeks during the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. In the Archaic period I focus on the formation of the city-states, the persistence of Greek cultural identity in foreign lands. In the Hellenistic period I focus on the expansion of Greek culture throughout the eastern...
M.A., Ancient History & Classical Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2021 M.A., Classics, University of Pisa, 2020 B.A., Classics, University of Pisa, 2018 M.Mus., Classical Guitar, Conservatorio V. Bellini, Catania, 2015
Before coming to Berkeley in Fall 2020, I was trained as an ancient historian and epigraphist in Pisa (Scuola Normale Superiore/University of Pisa), Munich (Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität) and Vienna (ÖAW, Forschungsgruppe Epigraphik). My PhD reseaerch has been supported by the Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy, the Center for Tebtunis Papyri...
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, working with Emily Mackil, Grace Erny, and Todd Hickey. My dissertation, Polis Without a Place, examines the economic and political experience of refugees in the fourth and third centuries BCE. Drawing on epigraphy, archaeology, and literary sources, I analyze how exile and displacement reshaped the lived realities of households, the strategies they employed to survive and adapt, and the moral economies that emerged from these crises. My goal is to bring exile into broader conversations about inequality, redistribution,...
Georgia Thoms' current research in Mediterranean archaeology is centered on the exploration of gender performance and identity through ancient art and artefacts. She is especially interested in Roman Egypt and other provinces during the early Roman empire, when shifts in power reveal aspects of syncretism and individuality through artistic trends. This builds upon her prior curiosities researched both at William and Mary, where she graduated with an honors thesis, “The Realities of Rape: Understanding the Foundations of a Woman’s Space in Ancient Greece and Rome,” and at Tufts, in which...
