Elizabeth Colantoni
Oberlin College Department of Classics
Oberlin, OH 44074
Tel. 440-775-8648
Email: Elizabeth.Colantoni@oberlin.edu

Research interests
Etruscan and Roman archaeology; early Roman history and archaic Rome; Roman religion

Education
Ph.D., Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan
Dissertation: Sacred Sites and Religion in Early Rome, Eighth to Sixth Centuries BC
M.A., Latin, University of Michigan
M.A., Anthropology, Florida State University
B.A., Classical Archaeology and French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recent and future course offerings
The Eternal City: Ancient Rome Built, Imagined, and Remembered (Spring 2007)
Cicero in Speech and Letters (Spring 2007)
Ethnic Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome
History of Rome
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
Intermediate Latin for Reading

Articles and other short research publications
Two catalog entries contributed to The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Antiquities Collection, edited by Tobi Levenberg Kaplan, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2002: 3-4.

“ Maenads and Meaning: Antefixes from Tarquinia in American Collections” in Bulletin, Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, 2000-2001: 7-30.

A Bacchic Sarcophagus in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology” in Bulletin, Museums of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, 2000-2001: 114-117.

“ Bacchic Imagery and Cult Practice in Roman Italy” in The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, edited by Elaine K. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 2000: 74-82.

"Maria Barosso, Francis Kelsey, and the Modern Representation of an Ancient Masterpiece” in The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, edited by Elaine K. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 2000: 129-137.

Nineteen catalog entries contributed to The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, edited by Elaine K. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 2000.

Recent conference papers and public lectures
“ Sacrificing on Time: The Early Years of the Roman Religious Calendar” paper to be presented, Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 86th Anniversary Meeting, Memphis, TN (2006)(abstract)

“ Est Honor et Tumulis: Ancestor Cult and Social Structure in Earliest Rome” public lecture, Department of Classical Studies, College of Wooster, OH (2006)

“ The Ancestors’ Ancestors: Religion and the Cult of the Dead in Archaic Rome” paper presented, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 102nd Annual Meeting, Gainesville, FL (2006)(abstract)

“ Deos sine Simulacro: Animism, Anthropomorphism, and the Nature of Early Roman Religion” paper presented, Archaeological Institute of America, 105th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2004)(abstract

Book reviews
Review of Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, by Celia E. Schultz, to be published shortly in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Review of Archeologia al femminile. Il cammino delle donne nella disciplina archeologica attraverso le figure di otto archeologhe classiche vissute dalla metà dell’Ottocento ad oggi, by Laura Nicotra, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.35, available on-line at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-02-35.html.

Excavation experience
Equivalent of more than three years of full-time excavation experience on sixteen different archaeological projects. List of selected projects:

Bois l’Abbé (Gallo-Roman town), Eu, France. Service Municipal d’Archéologie de la Ville d’Eu (2000)

Lattes (Greek and Roman colonial town), Hérault, France. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2000)

Tel Kedesh in Galilee (Hellenistic and Roman levels of a multi-period tel site), Israel. University of Michigan/University of Minnesota (1999)

Vigna Barberini, Palatine Hill (Severan imperial palace), Rome, Italy. École française de Rome (1994)

Cetamura del Chianti (Etruscan habitation site), Italy. Florida State University (1983, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993)