M.A., Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, UC Berkeley, 2021 B.A., Classical Civilization, Yale University, 2016
I am a social historian and archaeologist with interests in Roman religion, law, and funerary practice.
My dissertation, "Ghost Justice: Community, Crime, and the Roman Cult of the Dead (1st c. BCE – 3rd c. CE)," explores how ancient Romans negotiated and contested access to the afterlife via prayer, speech, law, and violence. I draw on archaeological, epigraphic, legal, and literary evidence to argue that,...
M.A. in Classical Studies, École normale supérieure (Paris), 2017
After receiving my pre-baccalaureate education in Hangzhou, China, I came to the U.S. to attend Columbia University, where I got my B.A. in History in 2015. After spending my senior year as an exchange student in Paris, I stayed there and obtained my M.A. in Classical Studies at the École normale supérieure in 2017. I then spent the first half of 2017-2018 as an “auditeur libre” at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, and the second half as an Erasmus...
I am a multidisciplinary scholar with roots in anthropology, archaeology, history, and history of art. My research covers a broad range of material, visual, and textual cultures of premodern Afroeurasia. I focus primarily on Central and West Asia from the post-Achaemenid period through Late Antiquity with a secondary focus on Northeast Africa, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean during the first several centuries CE. My research interests include materiality, identity, exchange, and intercultural interactions.
