PhD in Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology
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About
Ashton Rodgers is a PhD student at the University of Michigan in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology (IPAMAA). Ashton earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary (2021) and M.A. from the University of Michigan (2022), both in Classical Studies. She has worked as an intern at both the San Antonio Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research interests center around: colonialism and Classics, intellectual histories and theorizing of “Greek colonization” as well as the archaeology of Greek colonization in Southern Italy, and decolonial provenance research, specifically with osteological museum collections. Ashton is particularly interested in operationalizing decolonizing and Indigenous research methodologies in her archeological and museum work.
