I majored in Classics with a focus on Classical Archaeology and graduated in 2015. 

I was always fascinated by the material culture of the Mediterranean, but learning Greek and Latin was (not to sound hyperbolic, but) transformative for me. I came from a very small school, and I’d never thought about languages to that degree of detail. Though I was never the best philologist, the critical reading skills I developed changed the way I approach texts of all kinds in a fundamental way. As a doctoral candidate studying ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology, my time with the UO Classics department was foundational to the rest of my career.

Since graduating, I spent a post-bacc year at the University of Pennsylvania before completing an MA in Classics at the University of Maryland. After graduating, I then spent a few years teaching high school Latin, adjuncting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and working at the Baltimore Museum of Art. During the summers, I worked on different archaeological excavations in Israel before the pandemic. In 2021, I moved back to Oregon to begin my PhD in Art History here at the University of Oregon, where I’m currently researching Roman racial and ethnic constructions of Parthians as manifested in Roman sculpture.