In my teaching and research, I seek to understand how intersections between material culture and the built environment defined the political, social, economic and cultural landscapes of ancient Rome. I am interested in diachronic convergences between architecture and urbanism; mapping, memory, and the meaning of ancient monuments; public art in urban landscapes; contextualizing roman sculpture; and post-antique buildings and their antique models. Since arriving at the Institute in 2018, I have published on roman sculpture, gladiatorial inscriptions and graffiti, roman horti and the Thermae Agrippae. My current book project, From Fornix to Arcus: Architecture, Politics, and Public Space in Republican and Early Imperial Rome, assesses the political, symbolic, and urban significance of the earliest freestanding (so-called “triumphal”) arches. I come to the Institute after teaching in the Department of Art History at NYU and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and the Environment at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.