Research
My research focuses on landscape archaeology, material culture studies, and Roman colonialism in western Iberia. I am most interested in analyses of surveillance and its place in the occupation and reorganization of the central Alentejo region of Portugal in the 1st c. B.C.E. My dissertation considers the remains of numerous surveillance structures related to the Roman conquest of the region and the extraction of natural resources.
I am committed to interdisciplinary approaches, and I advocate a holistic approach to classical studies that does not separate the archaeological from the historical, the scientific, or the literary. For example, dissertation research combines archaeological excavation and survey, geographic information systems analysis, Latin epigraphy, ancient history, and surveillance theory.
I am committed to interdisciplinary approaches, and I advocate a holistic approach to classical studies that does not separate the archaeological from the historical, the scientific, or the literary. For example, dissertation research combines archaeological excavation and survey, geographic information systems analysis, Latin epigraphy, ancient history, and surveillance theory.
