Claudia Moser

Dissertation Fellowship

2012-13 Report

Positions

1. Doctoral candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University.
2. Pre-doctoral Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Publications & Papers at Conferences

Over the course of the last 4 years, I have presented two papers at the Joukowsky Institute's Brown Bag series, two papers at international conferences (at Oxford and in Rome), three papers at the annual Archaeology Institute for America meetings, a paper at the Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting. This Spring, I have been invited to present a paper at the University of Chicago on my work at S. Omobono. I will also be presenting papers at two conferences in Rome (one for a conference I co–organized), a paper at a conference in Florence, and another two papers for two other lecture series in Rome. With a colleague from the Joukowsky Institute at Brown, I have co–edited a collection of papers entitled “Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion”, which includes a paper of my own (on Lavinium and memory, a paper fostered by my Memoria Romana fellowship and project). I have also published (in press) an article for the University of Pennsylvania's Museum journal Expedition. Furthermore, I have published (in press) three entries for the Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. I have also published a book review for the College Art Association.

New Fellowships & Grants

• 2012–2013: Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre–Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome.

Current Work in Memoria Romana

With the generous support of the Memoria Romana Fellowship I was able to conduct intensive, on–site research for my dissertation, Material Witnesses: The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium and the Memory of Sacrifice. From September 2011–July 2012, I was based in Rome and thus had access to unpublished archives and excavation reports, conducted topographic surveys and created accurate plans for two sanctuaries that are case studies within my dissertation, participated in international and interdisciplinary conferences (including the Memoria Romana conference and workshop for the dissertation fellows at the American Academy in October 2011), and made many important professional connections. My year of research and writing in Rome was invaluable for the progress of my dissertation. To be able to have access to each of the five sites in and around Rome that are the focus of my dissertation has undoubtedly broadened and deepened the project.