UC Classics Department - Faculty & Staff


Barbara Burrell - CV Associate Research Professor of Classics. PhD, Harvard University 1980 barbara.burrell@classics.uc.edu phone: 513-556-3180 fax: 513-556-4366 room: 301 Blegen Research Areas: Archaeology of eastern Roman provinces, numismatics,ancient history.
Biography: Trained at New York University and at Harvard, she has dug at sites across the Mediterranean, including Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and currently in Israel, where she is Field Director for a project investigating the Palace of Herod and of the Roman Governors at Caesarea Maritima. Her specialties include Roman provincial coins, Greek epigraphy of Asia Minor, and Hellenistic and Roman imperial art, architecture, and history. She has taught seminars in numismatics; gender and archaeological theory; the emperor Hadrian; the crisis of the third century C.E.; and on the archaeology of Israel. In 2002, she was appointed the first Senior Fellow of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Research, at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her major work on cities that built temples to the imperial cult, Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors, appeared in 2004, and an important article on the significance of the aedicular facade throughout the Roman world has just come out in the American Journal of Archaeology.