contacts-undergraduate

  • Connolly, Serena

    • Serena Connolly
    • Serena Connolly
    • Department Chair; Professor of Classics
    • Ph.D., Yale
    • Research Interests: Serena Connolly teaches Roman history and Latin literature. Her research has characterized by her use of a wide range of texts from across the Roman world to understand Roman social and political history, including that of poorly-attested groups such as non-elites, women and slaves. More recently, she has turned to the history of science and technology and its intersection with Roman politics. She is the author of Lives Behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus (2010), in which she explored Roman emperors’ responses to the legal problems of their ordinary subjects, as well as a number of related articles. She has also published Wisdom from Rome: Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato (2022). The Distichs are a collection of Roman wisdom and advice that was one of the most read and best-known ancient Latin texts for over 1000 years. Her new book Learned Emperors: Science, Technology, and Power at the Roman Imperial Court (forthcoming, 2025) examines the intersections of science, technology, and the practice of power to propose a fresh notion of what a Roman emperor was—or professed to be. Early modern European rulers employed intellectualism, specifically an interest in science and technology, as part of their personas. This book reveals that Roman emperors anticipated them by over a millennium and embraced intellectualism as a feature of the imperial persona. Professor Connolly regularly teaches courses on Roman republican and imperial history, ancient science and technology, and Latin literature.
    • Office Location: AB 6187, CAC
    • Curriculum Vitae

  • Peruzzi, Bice

    • Bice Peruzzi
    • Bice Peruzzi
    • Undergraduate Director; Associate Professor
    • Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, University of Cincinnati (2016)
    • Research Interests: Art and archaeology of Pre-Roman Italy, in particular Etruria and Magna Graecia; pottery iconography; pottery technology; burial practices; identity in the ancient Mediterranean.
    • Office Location: AB 6186, CAC
    • Curriculum Vitae

    Bice is a Classical archaeologist specializing in the material culture of pre-Roman Italy. Her research focuses on the construction of cultural identity and the mechanics of cultural exchange in Apulia before the Roman conquest. Using artifacts –in particular local and imported pottery– as her main form of evidence, she aims to give a voice to individuals who would be otherwise mute, as they have left no written accounts and are only tangentially described in Greek and Roman sources. She has fieldwork and finds research experience in a number of sites in Italy (from Roman villas in Veneto, to Tarquinia’s necropolis, to Pompeii), in Greece, and in Turkey. She has published on Etruscans and Apulian tombs and on Corinthian pottery. Her current book project is a social biography of the inhabitants of Central Apulia. At Rutgers, Professor Peruzzi teaches courses on Mediterranean archaeology.