Hannah Edwards

Hannah is originally from the small town of Loris, South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston (Honors College) in 2017. At CofC, she received two degrees, a B.A. in History and an A.B. in Classics, and completed her Bachelor’s thesis, “Graecia capta: the Hellenization of the Late Roman Republic,” and her senior capstone, “Identity Along the Via Egnatia.” She received her Master’s in Classics from Florida State University in 2019. Her Master's thesis, "Illuminating the Soul: Livy's Parallel Lives of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus," focused on the comparative literary tropes between Hannibal and Scipio Africanus in Livy. While at the University of Michigan, Hannah has completed a certificate in Museum Studies, worked for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's DiSKO Project, and currently serves as the Graduate Liaison for the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. She is also a member of the Pella Urban Dynamics Project, where she supervises field survey collection and materials. 

Her current research focuses on Macedonian history and archaeology. She is especially interested in conceptions of ancient identity, power, symbols, and nationalism. Her dissertation, "After Alexander: Identity and Cultural Memory in Antigonid and Roman Macedonia," uses collective identity and cultural memory frameworks to examine archaeological, literary, numismatic, and epigraphic materials to understand how Macedonian identity was constructed, represented symbolically, and utilized in a post-Alexander world.