2024-25 Graduate Student Research Fellow
About
Sierra Jones is a doctoral candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History. Her research interests include reception of the classics within modern African diasporic communities and knowledge formation and legitimization in ancient Rome. Her dissertation, “Capricornus Regens: The Politics of Astrology’s Rise at Rome,” explores how astrology fit into Augustus Caesar’s political and religious programming as the republic transitioned to empire under him.
During her fellowship, Jones will continue her dissertation research and hopes to develop a framework for explaining how knowledge systems traveled, adapted, and transformed across ancient Mediterranean cultures. Her analysis will draw from the fields of religious studies, cognitive sciences, and cultural studies.
