Lauren Hackworth Petersen received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in Roman art and architecture. She has also done extensive research on Greek and Etruscan art and had assisted with the excavations at the Etruscan/Roman habitation site at Cetamura del Chianti, Italy. Professor Petersen is a recipient of a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, an NEH Summer Stipend, a Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, and a Fulbright Grant. Her articles include, "Divided Consciousness and Female Companionship: Reconstructing Female Subjectivity on Greek Vases," published in the classics journal Arethusa, and “The Baker, His Tomb, His Wife, and Her Breadbasket: The Monument of Eurysaces in Rome,” Art Bulletin (June 2003). Currently, she is completing her book manuscript, provisionally titled, “The Freedman and Trimalchio in Roman Art History: Seeing through Stereotypes,” forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Her book will challenge elite models that have dominated our understanding of non-elite Roman monuments and will offer an interpretation of artistic commissions by former slaves through interdisciplinary approaches.
Professor Petersen 's research and teaching interests include art in the everyday life of ancient Romans, visual culture in Pompeii, the art of commemoration, classical art revivals and their meanings, ancient constructions of sexuality, and feminist theory.
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