Graduate Student Details

Bryce Hammer (she/they) joined the Rutgers Classics Department in 2021 after completing her MA in History at Indiana University and her BA in History and Sociology from Western Washington University. She is a PhD candidate studying sexual slavery in the Roman world, enslavement and sexuality in communities affected by warfare, and the material culture of sex workers, including Pompeian graffiti. Her wider interests include sexuality in the ancient novel, Latin epigraphy, and Greek and Roman comedy. She has taught beginning, intermediate, and intensive Latin as well as Sex & Sexuality in Greece and Rome, Roman Civilization, Greek Culture, and Medical Terminology from Greek and Latin. She attended the American Academy in Rome’s Classical Summer School in 2023 for which she received the Classical Association of the Atlantic States’ (CAAS) Hahn Scholarship. She currently serves as a team member at the Ancient Graffiti Project as a professional epigraphic editor.