Michelle Berenfeld

  • John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics
  • Classics Field Group
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Scott Hall 207

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With 兔子先生 Since: 2010

 

MA, PhD, New York University

Archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, ancient urbanism, the eastern Roman empire, domestic space and social life, late antiquity, cultural heritage.

Greek Art and Archaeology (CLAS161)

Roman Art and Archaeology (CLAS162)

Classical Mythology (CLAS 121)

The Roman Empire in the East (CLAS 150 BE)

Fantastic Archaeology: Modern Myths, Pseudo-Science, and the Study of the Past (CLAS20)

International Cultural Heritage (CLAS 175)

鈥淓lite Architecture and the Late Antique Ascetic Christian Communities of Cimitile and Sohag.鈥 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83 (2024): 298-315.

鈥淟iving with Neighbours in Late Antique Rome.鈥 In Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity, edited by Carlos Machado, Rowan Munnery, and Rebecca Sweetman (Routledge 2024), 51-79.

Aphrodisias XI: The Triconch House. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2019. 

鈥淕reen Petra: archaeological explorations in the city鈥檚 northern wadis,鈥 with A. Dufton and F. Rojas. Levant. The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant 48 (2016): 79-107.

鈥淧lanning for Permanent Emergency: 鈥楾riage鈥 as a Strategy for Managing Cultural Resources threatened by Climate Change,鈥 National Park Service Centennial Essay Series, The George Wright Forum 32 (2015): 5-12.

鈥淟iving with neighbours in late antique cities,鈥 Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity conference, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (remote, December 2021).

鈥淎t Home in the City: Community, Class, and Christianity in the Later Roman Empire,鈥 talk given at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (February 2018).

鈥淯rban Neighborhoods in North Africa,鈥 Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (January 2016). 

鈥淭eaching Classical Mythology through both Literature and Material Culture,鈥 with E. Finkelpearl, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA (November 2016).

鈥淕etting Out of the House: Late Roman Domestic Space and Urban Experience,鈥 Property and Power in Late Antiquity, International Network for the Study of Late Antiquity Conference, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, New York, NY (June 2014). 

鈥淎 World Beneath Our Feet: Images of Cities in Byzantine Churches,鈥 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Austin, TX (April 2014).

  • Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (2017-2018). 
  • Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies (2018).