Academic Resume
2022 - Present
Guest Lecturer
Princeton Academy of Art
Princeton Academy of Art is a traditional art atelier, which teaches its students to draw, paint, and sculpt using plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures as models.
Through my lectures, I place these statues into their original ancient context for the students, deepening their historical as well as artistic knowledge.
2022
Research Associate
The Krateros Project
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Cataloguing and digitizing the Institute for Advanced Study's collection of 30,000 epigraphic squeezes. Writing informative metadata for each scanned squeeze in preparation for their upload to the Institute's online repository.
Creating content for and managing the Project's social media and blog.
Supervising the Project's team of summer students.
2021 - 2022
Visiting Researcher
School of Historical Studies,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Co-editor of a volume of proceedings arising from the 2021 British Academy conference "Ancient Plaster: Casting Light on a Forgotten Sculptural Material" with Emma Payne and Will Wootton (KCL). The volume will be published by the British Academy in 2023/4.
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Research into a collection of plaster cast reproductions of ancient coins and allotment plates held within Institute for Advanced Study's epigraphic library.
2017 - 2021
PhD in Museum Studies
University of Leicester &
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford
Fully funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Programme.
Thesis title: ‘"The Castness of the Things": A Visitor’s-Eye View of Value in the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.’
Supervised by Prof. R.R.R. Smith, Prof. Sandra Dudley and Dr. M. Melfi.
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Passed with no corrections.
2016 - 2017
MSt in Classical Archaeology
Merton College, University of Oxford
Passed with Distinction.
2013 - 2016
BA in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Merton College, University of Oxford
Passed with First Class Honours.
Skills gained:
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Organization and self-motivation
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Independent project management
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Strong written communication
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​Attention to detail
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Ability to meet deadlines
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Ability to work under pressure
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Ability to formulate original ideas
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Qualitative data collection and analysis.
Academic Awards
2019
University of Oxford
Awarded second prize in the Arts & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Programme poster competition.
2018
Cambridge Annual Student
Archaeology Conference
Awarded the Bloomsbury Prize for best paper presentation.
2014-2016
Merton College, University of Oxford
Promoted to 1) Exhibitioner and 2) Postmaster status for outstanding performance in 1) Preliminary Examinations and 2) Final Honour School Studies.
