Megan Gatton

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Ancient craft traditions and fabrication techniques; Uses of ancient material culture in modern constructions of race; Anthropological approaches to art history and classical archaeology.

Megan Gatton is a PhD candidate studying the material cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean world. Her research focuses on worked bone objects from the Western Greek colonies and Italic peninsula during the first millennium BCE. She earned a BA in Classics—Art History from New York University in 2020 and an M.St. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford in 2021. She participates in the NYU-UniMi archaeological mission at the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte and the UMich-NYU archaeological museum project for the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma. She has held positions at a number of museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Addison Gallery of American Art.