Elizabeth is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Archaeology with a focus in the material culture of the Roman world. She received an MA in Classical Archaeology (2004) and in Classical Philology (2003), both from Tufts University, after finishing a BA in Classical Civilization at Boston University. Beth is currently a site supervisor on the ongoing archaeological excavations at Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Through her six seasons with the site staff, she has taken part on excavations in both the fort and extramural vicus, and in the off season researches the collection housed in the on-site museum. Her publications include the assemblage of intaglios and finger rings from the site in a co-authored fascicule of the Vindolanda Research Reports series, as well as individual contributions in the interim excavation reports.
Elizabeth’s primary research focuses on the western Roman provinces, particularly frontier regions, and the Roman military community living in these areas. She is particularly interested in the presence of women and children in the military sphere, and is currently preparing a dissertation on “Social roles of women and children in the Roman military community”. Her current research at Vindolanda focuses on the assemblage of over four-thousand Roman leather shoes that have been excavated from anaerobic conditions at the site, which she is using to create demographic models of the population in each phase of the site’s occupation. Preliminary results of this research will be presented at the 2008 conference of the Archaeological Institute of America in a session co-organized by Elizabeth entitled, “Agency and the Individual: Women in the Archaeological record of Rome”. Beth’s further interests in the Roman world include the representation of auxiliary soldiers in Roman art, about which she will present a paper on the dichotomy between the representation of auxiliaries and legionary soldiers in Roman public art, as well as issues of identity and assimilation of fringe members of Roman society.
Elizabeth also keeps an interest in Latin literature, most recently presenting a paper on “Social Commentary in the Metamorphoses: Apueleius’ play with Satire” at an international conference on Apuleius and the Second Sophistic held at UNC in Spring 2007. In the past she has presented research on Ovid and Augustan Ideology at the CANE conference in 2004.
E-mail: egreene@email.unc.edu
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