Erica Venturo

Erica earned her B.A in Classical Civilizations with High Honors from the University of Toronto, where she received both the Dorothy Ellison graduating scholarship in Latin and the W.B Wiegand Prize in Ancient Greek. She also received her M.A. in Classics, with an emphasis on classical archaeology and material culture, from the University of Toronto. Her M.A. thesis explored craft production and the socio-economic framework of agricultural production centers in Central Crete from the Late Hellenistic into the early Roman Imperial period.

Erica's research interests center on the landscapes, systems of exchange, and economic production in the Roman Empire. With an emphasis on pottery and mosaics, Erica's work examines how increasing trade networks and cross-cultural interactions impacted production techniques and the degrees of mobility of material culture in the Roman Empire.  

Erica has spent several summers conducting fieldwork in both Greece and Italy. In 2016, Erica joined the Western Argolid Regional Project as a pedestrian surveyor. Then in 2017, Erica became a member of the Villa of the Antonines field school. Erica started there as a volunteer excavator, but is now a senior staff member and trench supervisor, involved in both field excavations and analysis of finds in the lab.