Abigail Staub

Abigail earned her B.A. in Archaeology and Art History with a Latin minor from the University of Virginia in 2020. During her time at the University of Virginia, she conducted a multi-year, independent research project focused on cult spaces across Pompeian industries. The primary goal of her project was the completion of a comprehensive database of shrine niches and religious paintings in Pompeian commercial spaces. This ultimately culminated in a distinguished major thesis, for which she earned High Honors. During her time in Charlottesville, she also worked as an Education Intern at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Australian Art Collection, and was employed as a Museum Assistant and docent at the Fralin Museum of Art. After the completion of her B.A., she earned a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in Classical Studies from the College of William & Mary (2021).

Abigail has completed a research assistantship in Pompeii (2018), and has excavated with the University of Michigan’s Gabii Project as a field school participant (2019). Her research interests include liminal identities in the Roman world (such as laborers, enslaved peoples, the elderly, and women), personal religion, and the materiality of domestic space. She is also passionate about museum pedagogy and accessibility of information to those outside the field of Classics.