Faculty

I have worked at the University of Rochester since 2008; I was promoted to the position of associate professor in 2015. My appointment is in the Department of Religion and Classics, and I am on the steering committee for the Program in Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures. My teaching is focused on Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and Latin, and my research interests are in Italic and Roman archaeology, ancient Roman religion, early Rome, and archaeological ethics.

Selected Publications

• 2026: “Religious Sites in the Territory of the Aequi and Aequiculi” in Etruscan and Italic Studies 29: doi.org/10.1515/etst-2025-0009. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni.
• 2024: “Alla scoperta del Cicolano nell’antichità: testimonianze di età eneolitica, romana e altomedievale dagli scavi dell’Università di Rochester (New York) a San Martino di Torano (Borgorose - Rieti)” in Archeologia in Sabina 2023, edited by Francesca Lezzi, Museo Archeologico Trebula Mutuesca, Santa Ruffina di Cittaducale (Rieti), pp. 42-62. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Julia Granato, and Jeffrey A. Stevens.
• 2024: “Viabilità e vita commerciale nel Cicolano in età romana e tardo antica: il caso di San Martino (Torano di Brogorose, Rieti)” in Lazio eSabina 13: 133-139. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Francesca Lezzi, and Jeffrey A. Stevens.
• 2023: “Changing Trade Routes in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Cicolano: Evidence of Adriatic and Other Imported Pottery at the San Martino site (Torano di Borgorose, Rieti, Italy)” in TRADE –Transformations of Adriatic Europe (2nd – 9th century). Proceedings of theConference in Zadar, 11th-13th February 2016, edited by Igor Borzić, Enrico Cirelli, Kristina Jelinčić Vučković, Ana Konestra and Ivana Ožanić Roguljić, Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, pp. 388-394. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Maria Rosa Lucidi, Jeffrey A. Stevens and Francesco Tommasi.
• 2022: “The Late Copper Age Settlement Levels at the San Martino Site, Torano di Borgorose (RI)” in Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria. Atti del XV Incontro diStudi: Ipogei. La vita, la morte, i culti nei mondi sotterrenei, edited by Nuccia Negroni Catacchio, Christian Metta, Veronica Gallo, and Matteo Aspesi, Centro Studi di Preistoria e Archeologia, Milan, volume 2, pp. 699-706. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Serena Cosentino and Gianfranco Mieli.
• 2022: “Testimonianze dell’Età del Rame a San Martino di Torano (Borgorose, Rieti): confronti con l’Eneolitico del bacino fucense” in Il Fucino e le areelimitrofe nell'antichità, Atti del V Convegno di Archeologia in onore di Umberto Irti, Avezzano Castello Orsini 6-7 novembre 2021, edited by Laura Saladino, Archeoclub d’Italia – Sezione della Marsica, pp. 129-135. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Serena Cosentino, and Gianfranco Mieli.
• 2022: “L’insediamento rustico di età romana e tardo antica a San Martino di Torano (Borgorose, Rieti): le campagne di scavo 2016-2017” in Il Fucino e learee limitrofe nell'antichità, Atti del V Convegno di Archeologia in onore di Umberto Irti, Avezzano Castello Orsini 6-7 novembre 2021, edited by Laura Saladino, Archeoclub d’Italia - Sezione della Marsica, pp. 423-435. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Francesca Lezzi, and Jeffrey A. Stevens.
• 2019: “La funzione dei siti su terrazzamenti in opera poligonale. Nuovi dati di scavo dall’area archeologica di San Martino a Torano di Borgorose (Rieti)” in Le Mura poligonali. Atti del Sesto Seminario, edited by Luca Attenni, Valtrend Editore, Naples, pp. 58-65. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni and Maria Rosa Lucidi.
• 2016: “Indagini geofisiche e archeologiche nel Parco di Villa Severi ad Arezzo (2012-2013)” in Atti e Memorie della Accademia Petrarca diLettere, Arti e Scienze 78, pp. 243-256. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Cynthia Ebinger and Derek Keir.
• 2016: “L’insediamento rustico di età romana e tardo antica a San Martino di Torano (Borgorose, Rieti): lo stato delle ricerche” in Lazio e Sabina 11, pp. 239-242. Co-authored with Gabriele Colantoni, Maria Rosa Lucidi, Jeffrey A. Stevens and Francesco Tommasi.
• 2016: "A Note on the Names of Rome’s Curiae” in Latomus 75, pp. 477-478.
  
  Academia.edu page (with pdf copies of some publications)

Teaching

Regular course offerings:

• Introduction to Greek and Roman Antiquity
• Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean
• Greek Art and Archaeology
• Roman Art and Archaeology
• Field Methods in Archaeology
• Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Museums, and Politics in the 21st Century
• Ancient Roman Religion
• Building, Engineering, and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Advanced Latin (authors: Plautus, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, Apuleius)