Michelle Berenfeld

PhD, MA, BA  New York University

Archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, urbanism, late antiquity.
Classical reception, interpretations of ancient Greece and Rome in modern culture.
 

• Greek Art and Archaeology 
• Roman Art and Archaeology  
• Ancient Rome in the Western Political Imagination (co-taught with Political Studies)
• Classical Mythology (co-taught with Pomona Classics)
• The Roman Empire in the East  
• Fantastic Archaeology: Modern Myths, Pseudo-Science, and the Study of the Past  
• International Cultural Heritage  
• Archaeology of the Age of Augustus 
• The Ancient World and Us: Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians from antiquity to today (First Year Seminar)

Lessons From A Lost Republic: What ancient Rome can teach us about this American Moment Spiegel & Grau, 2026.

“Elite Architecture and the Late Antique Ascetic Christian Communities of Cimitile and Sohag.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83 (2024): 298-315.

“Living with Neighbours in Late Antique Rome.” In Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity, edited by Carlos Machado, Rowan Munnery, and Rebecca Sweetman (Routledge 2024), 51-79.

Aphrodisias XI: The Triconch House. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2019. 

“Green Petra: archaeological explorations in the city’s northern wadis,” with A. Dufton and F. Rojas. Levant. The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant 48 (2016): 79-107.

“Planning for Permanent Emergency: ‘Triage’ as a Strategy for Managing Cultural Resources threatened by Climate Change,” National Park Service Centennial Essay Series, The George Wright Forum 32 (2015): 5-12.
 

• Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (2017-2018). 
• Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies (2018).