Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION: 

Ph.D., Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago, 1999 

M.A., Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago, 1997 

M.A., Classics, University of Victoria, Canada, 1992 

B.A., Classical History, Languages, and Archaeology, with Honours, University of Calgary, Canada, 1990 

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST: 

  •  Ancient history, more specifically Greek and Roman society and culture: clothing and appearance, social attitudes, social structure, women, the family, sexuality, and slavery
  • Greek and Roman art and architecture 
  • Greek and Roman historiography 
  • Sexuality and appearance in Western culture 

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS (SELECTED): 

  • 2019-21: SSHRC Insight Development Grant (for Roman Jewelry and the Technology of Enchantment)
  • 2012-14: Teaching Fellow, School of Advanced Study in the Arts and Humanities, Univ. of Western Ontario  
  • 2011-13: Faculty Scholar, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Univ. of Western Ontario 
  • 2011: Academic Development Fund (for Greek Dress and Romanitas in Roman Antiquity) 
  • 2008-11: SSHRC Standard Research Grant for Men, Appearance, and Sexuality in Roman Antiquity

BOOKS PUBLISHED: 

  • ed. A Cultural History of Beauty. Vol. I: Antiquity 500 BC -400 CE. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming 2024.
  • ed. A Cultural History of Luxury. Vol. I: Antiquity 500 BC -400 CE. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming 2025.
  • ed., with A. Batten. Dress and Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
  • Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity (Routledge, 2017). 200 + xiii pp.
  • Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society (Routledge, 2008). 171 + xv pp. 

Dress and the Roman Woman has been reviewed in: 

The BMCR Review 
<http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-04-45.html>

The International Journal of the Classical Tradition 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12138-010-0207-2>

The University of Toronto Quarterly 
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/university_of_toronto_quarterly/v080/80.2.keith.html> 

  • ed., with A. Glazebrook. 2009. Nature, Natural: Imagining Women in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Classical World, as a special issue: 102.3). 

ARTICLES: 

  • “Masculinity, appearance, and sexuality: Roman dandies.”  Journal of the History of Sexuality 23.2 (2014): 182-205. 
  • “Cosmetics in Roman antiquity: substance, remedy, poison.” Classical World 103.2: 2009: 291-310. 
  • “Insignia lugentium: female mourning garments in Roman antiquity,” in the American Journal of Ancient History 3-4 (2004-05). [2007]: 89-130. 
  • “Roman underwear revisited.” Classical World 96.2 [2003], 201-210. 
  • “Matrona and whore: the clothing of Roman women” in Fashion Theory 6.4 (2002), 387-420. 
  • “Roman glass gaming pieces or jewel stones” in Mouseion Series III vol. 1 (2001), 127-138. 

BOOK CHAPTERS (SELECTED): 

  • “Beauty, ugliness and ideas of difference,” in Olson, A Cultural History of Beauty 2022 (above)

  • “Dress and Adornment,” in The Roman Emperor and His Court: c. 30 BC – c. AD 300, vol. 1, eds. B. Kelly and A.G. Hug (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022): 461-78.

  • “Fringed clothing in Roman art,” in C. Brøns, S. Harris, and M. Zuchowska (eds). Textiles in Ancient Iconography (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022)

  • “Introduction,” in Batten & Olson  2021 (above): 1-7
  • “Dress and Classical Studies,” in Batten & Olson 2021 (above): 11-18
  • “Dress and Religious Ritual in Roman Antiquity,” in Batten and Olson 2021 (above): 201-13.
  • “Power and Identity,” with D. Wharton, in A Cultural History of Colour. Vol. I: Antiquity 500 BC -400 CE, ed. D. Wharton (Bloomsbury 2020): 49-61.
  • “Stola,” and “the female life-cycle,” entries for the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 5th ed. (forthcoming, Oxford Univ. Press)
  • “Dress and Adornment,” in The Roman Imperial Court: Methods, Models, and Materials.ed. B. Kelly, and A.G. Hug (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
  • “Fashion and adornment in hair 600 BC – 800 CE,” chapter in A Cultural History of Hair. Vol. I: Antiquity.ed. M. Harlow (Bloomsbury 2018): 47-64.
  • “Status,” chapter in A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Vol. I: Antiquity, ed. M. Harlow (Bloomsbury 2016): 105-18.
  • “Greek dress in Roman antiquity: status, sexuality, identity” chapter in M. Masterson and N. Rabinowitz (edd) Sex in Antiquity: New Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (Routledge 2014): 422-48.
  •  “Greek and Roman marriage” (with A. Glazebrook), chapter in T. Hubbard (ed) A Companion to Ancient Sexuality (Wiley Blackwell, 2013): 69-82.
  •  “Gender and sexuality,” chapter in M. Gibbs, M. Nikolic, and P. Ripat (edd) Themes in Roman Society and Culture: An Introduction to Ancient Rome (Oxford Univ. Press 2013): 164-88. Second ed. in press.

PAPERS READ (SELECTED): 

  • “’A Dewy Pregnancy:’ The Pearls of Roman Women,” Classical Association of Canada annual meeting, Halifax, Canada, May 2023.
  • “‘A Dewy Pregnancy:’ The Pearls of Roman Women,” Feminism & The Classics VIII conference (online) May 2022
  • “Dress and Adornment at the Roman Imperial Court,” lecture in the Dept. of Classics, Queens University, November 2021. (invited lecture)
  • “Dress and Adornment at the Roman Imperial Court,” lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, for the panel ‘Caesar’s Palace:  Inside the Court of Early Imperial Rome.’ March 2020
  • “Dress and Adornment at the Roman Imperial Court,” lecture in UWO, Department of Classical Studies, March 2020
  • “Celluloid Cleopatras 1899-2013.” University of Waterloo, Canada, February 2020 (invited lecture)
  • “Dress and Adornment at the Roman Imperial Court,” keynote address at the conference Adornment as Expression of Everyday Identity in Ancient and Medieval Life.  Rome, September 2019 (keynote address)
  • “Celluloid Cleopatras 1899-2013.” Sally Katary Memorial Lecture, Thornloe University, Canada, March 2019 (invited lecture)
  • Classical Assoc. of Canada Lecturer, October 2018 (Eastern tour), Sept-Oct  2018
  • “Fringes on garments in Roman art,” European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain, September 2018
  • “Ancient Roman hairdressing,” and “Fashion and Elegance in Roman Antiquity,” J. Paul  Getty Museum, Malibu, California, July 22, 2018 (invited lectures)
  • “Dress and adornment at the Roman imperial court.” Roman imperial court workshop, York University, July 2017
  • “Noblewomen and leisure in Roman antiquity.” Classical Association of Canada annual meeting, St. John’s, Canada, May 2017.
  • “Poverty, mourning, and sordes in Roman antiquity,” lecture in UWO, Department of Classical Studies, October 2016.
  • “Nasica’s toga and the death of Tiberius Gracchus.” Classical Association of Canada annual meeting, Quebec City, Canada, May 2016.
  • “Elegance and philosophies of fashion in Roman antiquity,” Dept. of Classics, Univ. of Manitoba, September 2015 (invited)
  • “Pearls and patches: status and male footwear in Roman antiquity,” Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Antiquity conference, Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK. June 2015.
  • “The Antonine Toga.” Classical Association of Canada annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 2014.
  • “Resurrection and rebirth: the Antonine toga,” Resurrection and Rebirth conference, Dept. of Religious Studies, McGill University, May 2014 (invited lecture)
  • “The Color of Masculinity,” lecture in UWO, Department of Classical Studies, February 2014

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE (SELECTED): 

  • May 2022: co-organizing chair of the Classical Association of Canada annual meeting (UWO, London, Ontario)
  • May 2016-18: Communications Officer, Women’s Network, Classical Assoc. of Canada
  • May 2012:  Invited respondent, panels on “Adornment in the Bible and Antiquity,” Canadian Society for Biblical Studies, Congress (Kitchener-Waterloo)
  • May 2012:  Organizing chair of the Classical Association of Canada annual meeting (UWO, London, Ontario)
  • March 2012:   Organizing chair of “Philhellenism and the Romans” (panel at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  • May 2011:  Organizing Chair of “Justice on the Margins in the Ancient World” workshop (UWO; SSHRC funded, May 2011)
  • 2010-2013: Member, Classical Association of Canada Council
  • March 2010: Organizing Chair of “Justice in the Ancient World” conference (UWO; awarded a SSHRC conference grant, 2010-11: $18,000)
  • March 2010: Organizing Chair of  “Cloth, Clothing, and Gender in Roman Art.” Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference panel, Oxford UK