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My research focuses on the development of urban landscapes in Pre-Roman and Roman Italy, with particular attention to the interplay between architecture, technology, and social history. My publications explore topics such as the formation of Roman town-planning, the evolution of concrete construction, the social meaning of domestic architecture, and the transmission of building practices across the Mediterranean in the period of Rome's early expansion. This work contributes to broader debates on cultural interaction, technological innovation, and power dynamics in the ancient world.
Roman Concrete
Roman Concrete
My first book (The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture, Cambridge, 2021) traces technological change in monumental construction in central Italy through excavation data from both public monuments and private domestic architecture. This study explores the political motivations and cultural aspirations of the patrons and highlights how contractors negotiated economic and logistical constraints by drawing from both local resources and long-distance networks.
My current book project, under contract for the Cambridge Elements series in the Ancient City of Rome, is titled Rome’s Architectural Revolution, 133-44 BCE: A Material Turn. Based on the results of the latest fieldwork, the work frames concrete construction and other architectural innovations spreading in the period between the Gracchi and Ceasar within Rome’s urban development and analyzes the process through the lens of materiality, elucidating the impact on the experience of Rome's urban fabric.
I am also leading a collaborative project Experiments towards the characterization and replication of Roman concrete technology, funded by the MU Materials Science and Engineering Institute. The first phase of the program has involved the manufacturing and mechanical testing of 2’’x 2’’ mortar samples that mimic the composition and fabrication methods of the basic types of structural binders known to have been employed in Roman concrete construction.
To delve into the structure and composition of the binders formed within the strongest and weakest mortars, these strength and durability investigations will be supplemented with archaeometric techniques that are being applied to archaeological samples I have collected from Pompeii and Gabii (NAA, Raman Spectroscopy, and Optical Microscopy) in order to characterize the evolution of technological choices in relation to chronology, geology, and structural function.
Gabii Project
Gabii Project
Since 2024 I direct the Gabii Project, a collaborative initiative centered on the exploration of the ancient Latin city of Gabii. Gabii's rich archaeological record, spanning from the 8th century BCE to the 7th century CE and beyond, allows for a comprehensive examination of the city's full urban trajectory. Within the broader scope of the Gabii Project, my research has focused on processes of city formation, town-planning, the emergence of monumental civic architecture, and the development of domestic architecture. My edited volume Élite Burial Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii, Italy: the non-adult tombs from Area D of the Gabii Project excavations, a monograph-length study of a group of unusually rich infant burials associated with one of the residential foci of the Iron Age and Archaic settlement.
The new cycle of fieldwork is concentrating on Gabii's Mid-Republican horizon. The city layout was redrawn in the late 5th century BCE with a coordinated series of roads forming an orthogonal plan that permanently obliterated Archaic-era structures, likely reflecting a social or political reorganization. In the subsequent phase of dense settlement, a monumental public complex blending commercial and possibly ritual spaces was built near a main road intersection. Ongoing explorations in this sector will significantly advance our knowledge of urban zoning dynamics and clarify what a Roman third century BCE city center looked like.
The Gabii Project is also notable for its use of digital tools to document archeological remains. The first volume in the final report series, A Mid-Republican House from Gabii, which I co-edited for Michigan Publishing, addresses the need for effective and innovative ways of publishing and sharing digital-born data, presenting our research in a manner in which analysis, visualization, 3D modeling and narrative are closely intertwined. This publication program has just received an NEH Collaborative Research Grant for 2026-2028.
Venus Pompeiana
Venus Pompeiana
The Roman goddess Venus was the patron deity of the city of Pompeii, and her temple occupied a prominent location at the southern edge of the site, overlooking the river plain below. The Venus Pompeiana Project was launched in 2017 as a collaboration between the University of Missouri-Columbia and Mount Allison University, under the auspices of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, to resume study of this important yet poorly understood monument.
VPP aims to clarify the results of past excavations (most recently) between 2004 and 2007, which were only partially published, and to follow up on questions raised by that work. VPP’s pilot season, in July 2017, was aimed toward identifying the extent and organization of the first sanctuary, and providing greater resolution on its date. Three more excavation campaigns were carried out in 2018-19 and 2022.
Our fieldwork demonstrated that the topography and function of the area prior to the construction of the temple and triporticus was radically different. Around the middle of the 2nd century BCE, this sector of town was divided into two distinct city blocks of elongated shape, featuring elite residential architecture (Battiloro et al. 2018). Our finds indicate that these buildings were destroyed only after 30 BCE (Mogetta et al. 2022), evidently to make room for the first temple and ancillary buildings.
Thanks to funding from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation (2024-2025), the VPP team is preparing the final publication, due to appear in the Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei series. Our current research has been focusing on the connotations of the cult practiced in the Augustan-era sanctuary, taking legacy data into account.
Publications
Publications
Book Series:
Mogetta, M., Opitz, R., and Terrenato, N. eds., The Gabii Project Reports, University of Michigan Press (2 volumes already published, 4 volumes in preparation).
Books:
Mogetta, M. in preparation. Rome’s Architectural Revolution, 133-44 BCE: A Material Turn (Cambridge Elements in The Ancient City of Rome). Cambridge University Press (under contract for August 2026).
Battiloro, I. and Mogetta, M. (eds.) in preparation. The Sanctuary of Venus in Pompeii (Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei). L’Erma di Bretschneider (under contract for 2026).
Mogetta, M., and Johnson, T. D. (eds.). in preparation. A Domestic to Industrial Transition at Gabii (The Gabii Project Reports, 3). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (full manuscript submission expected December 2025).
Mogetta, M. 2021. The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture: Technology and Society in Republican Italy. Cambridge University Press (June 2021). ISBN 9781108845687 (hardcover). Online ISBN 9781108990516 (ebook)
Published reviews: S. Bernard, 2022, American Journal of Archaeology; H. Hurst, 2022, Journal of Roman Studies; J.P. Oleson, 2023, Journal of Roman Archaeology; A. Pavlick, 2023, Rhea Classical Reviews; S. Vyverman, 2023, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Marks, R. and Mogetta, M. (eds.). 2021. Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472132676. Online ISBN 9780472129232 (e-book)
Published reviews: W. Dominik, in Classical Review 72.2 (2022) pp. 545-548.
Mogetta, M. (ed.). 2020. Élite Burial Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii: The Non-adult Tombs from the Area D of the Gabii Project Excavations (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 108). Portsmouth, RI: JRA. ISBN 9780999458624
Published reviews: M. Becker, 2021. American Journal of Archaeology
Opitz, R., Mogetta, M., and N. Terrenato (eds.), 2016 [2018]. A Mid-Republican House from Gabii (The Gabii Project Reports, 1; ISBN: 978-0-472-99900-2; released on Fulcrum in 2018 under same ISBN; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9231782). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Published reviews: S. Campana, 2017. Antiquity 91(359): 1397-99; E. J. O’Riordan, 2017. A Review of 'Mid Republican House from Gabii', Internet Archaeology 45; E. E. Poehler, 2018. Journal of Roman Studies 108: 192-94; M. Giglio, 2018. Bryn Mawr Classical Review; P. M. Allison, 2018. American Journal of Archaeology 122.2; E. Fentress, 2018. “Doing away with paper: three online publications of excavations in Italy.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 31: 753-59. C. Smith, 2018. “An Excavation Report Online.” Classical Review 68: 228.
Book chapters (*: peer-reviewed):
Mogetta, M., Johnston, A., Martinez, M., Ross, S., Almonte M., Andreotti, C. and Bochicchio, R. under review. “Locating The Forum of Mid-Republican Gabii: New Evidence from the ‘Area Urbana’ site.” In N. Terrenato, and A. Eichengreen (eds.), The Origins of the Forum and the Basilica (Cambridge University Press). Submitted July 2025.
Battiloro, I. and Mogetta, M. forthcoming. “Public Religion.” In R. Benefiel and J.T. Berry (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Pompeii and Environs. Oxford: Oxford University Press (invited; submitted August 2020; final revision submitted June 2022).
Mogetta, M. forthcoming. “Building materials, techniques and elements of construction.” In
M. Trümper (ed.), Roman Architecture (De Gruyter Reference Series). Berlin: De Gruyter (last revised November 2014).
Mogetta, M. and Johnston, A. C. 2024. “Filling in the Gaps: The Urban Development of Early and Mid-Republican Gabii.” In F. Colivicchi and M. McCallum (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion, pp. 104-123. Routledge: Abingdon.
Mogetta, M. 2023 [2024].* “Sviluppi tecnologici e aspetti culturali nell’economia di cantiere a Roma ed in Italia in età tardo-repubblicana (II-I secolo a.C.).” In A. Fiorini (ed.), Atti del Convengo “Archeologia del cantiere edile: temi ed esempi dall’Antichità al Medioevo.” Archeologia dell’Architettura XVII.2 (2023), pp. 37-58. Florence: All’Insegna del Giglio. Doi 10.36153/aa28.2.2023.00
Mogetta, M. 2023.* “Roman Hellenism and Republican Architecture: The Genesis of the Roman Corinthian Order.” In B. Dufallo and R. Faber (eds.), Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy, pp. 249-77. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.12.07/ (Carolyn MacDonald)
Battiloro I., and Mogetta, M. 2022. “Il culto di Venere a Pompei.” In M. Cantone and G. Zuchtriegel (eds.), Arte e sensualità nelle case di Pompei, Exhibition Catalogue (Pompeii, May 2022 – January 2023), 29-46. Naples: Artem.
Battiloro, I. and Mogetta, M. 2021. “Il Santuario di Venere: Scavi 2017-2019.” In M. Osanna (ed.), Scoperte e Ricerche a Pompei. In Ricordo di Enzo Lippolis. (Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 45), 35-56. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider.
Marks R. and Mogetta, M. (eds.) 2021.* “Introduction.” In Marks R. and Mogetta, M. (eds.), Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy, pp. 1-12. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Mogetta, M. 2020.* “Introduction.” In Mogetta, M. (ed.), Élite Burial Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii: The Non-adult Tombs from the Area D of the Gabii Project Excavations (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 108), 9-
26. Portsmouth, R.I.: JRA.
D’Acri, M. and Mogetta, M. 2020.* “The regional setting: non-adult burials from contemporary settlements in Latium Vetus.” In Mogetta, M. (ed.), Élite Burial Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii: The Non-adult Tombs from the Area D of the Gabii Project Excavations, 125-40. Portsmouth, R.I.: JRA.
Mogetta, M. 2019.* “Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Republican Architecture: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE.” In F. Buccellati, S. Hageneuer, S. van der Heyden, and F. Levenson (eds.), Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations, 241-68. Bielefeld: Transcript (ISBN: 978-3-8376-4538-5).
Mogetta, M. and S. Cohen, 2018.* “Infant and child burial practices from an élite domestic compound at Early Iron Age and Orientalising Gabii.” In J. Tabolli (ed.) From invisible to visible. New data and methods for the archaeology of infant and child burials in pre- Roman Italy and beyond (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 149), 47-58. Nicosia: Astrom Editions.
Journal articles (peer-reviewed):
Battiloro, I. and Mogetta, M. in preparation. “A New Date for the Sanctuary of Venus in Pompeii.”
Al Qader, H., Pallas, C., Bommelje, O., Mogetta, M. and Orton, S. in preparation. “Experiments Towards the Replication and Characterization of Roman Structural Mortars.” Heritage (submission expected November 2025).
Buchanan, S. A., Stephenson T. R., Nesti D., and Mogetta M., 2025. “Curating Archaeological Provenience Data Across Excavation Recording Formats.” Humanities 14(11), 210; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110210
Killgrove, K., Klunk, J., Tapson, M., Mogetta, M., Banducci, L., Gallone A., Evans, M., Motta, L., Cohen, S., Moses, V., and Terrenato, N. 2024[2025]. “Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for Community Building and Population Dynamics at a Multi-Phase Roman Site (Gabii, Italy, 8th Century BC–2nd Century AD).” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 37.2: 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.33474
Battiloro, I., Mogetta, M., and Varriale, I. 2023[2024]. “Nuove indagini archeologiche nel Santuario di Venere a Pompei (Venus Pompeiana Project, campagne 2017-2022).” (Notiziario – Pompei). Rivista di Studi Pompeiani 34: 247-58.
Zapelloni Pavia, A., Gallone, A. Mogetta, M., and Terrenato, N. 2022 [2023]. “Lo sviluppo urbano di Gabii (RM). Dieci anni di indagini del Gabii Project nell’area centrale della città.” Bollettino di Archeologia Online XIII.4: 53-79.
Mogetta, M., Battiloro, I., Varriale, I., Diffendale, D.P., Iacomelli, G., D’Acri, M., Pardini, G., Comegna, C. and Corbino, C. 2022. “Archaeological Research at the Sanctuary of Venus in Pompeii: Interim Report of the 2018-2019 Seasons of the Venus Pompeiana Project.” Fasti Online Documents & Research 535: 1-41.
https://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2022-535.pdf
Samuels, J. T., Naglak, M., Opitz, R., Evans, J. M., Johnston, A. C., Wright, P., Creola, A., Prosser, J., Zapelloni-Pavia, A., Farr, J., Harder, M., Banducci, L.M., D’Acri, M., Tuttle, D., Ion, S., Cha, C., Ness, S., Beydler, K., Cohen, S., Moses, V., Motta, L., Mogetta, M., and A. Gallone. 2021. “A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012–2018.” Journal of Field Archaeology 46: 132-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1877958.
Johnston, A. C. and Mogetta, M. 2020. “Debating Early Republican urbanism in Latium Vetus: the town planning of Gabii, between archaeology and history.” Journal of Roman Studies 110: 91-121 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435820001070).
Mogetta, M., Johnston, A. C., Naglak, M. and D’Acri, M. 2019. “The Street System of Gabii: New Evidence on the Republican Phases.” Fasti Online Documents & Research 438: 1-33. DOI: http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2019-438.pdf
Battiloro, I. and Mogetta, M., with contributions by Barretta, M., D’Esposito, L., Diffendale,
D. P., Harder, M. C., Pardini, G., Pignataro, M., Russo, A., and Varriale, I. 2018. “New Investigations at the Sanctuary of Venus in Pompeii: Interim Report on the 2017 Season of the Venus Pompeiana Project.” Fasti Online Documents & Research 425: 1-
37. DOI: www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2018-425.pdf
Johnston, A. C., Mogetta, M., Banducci, L., Opitz, R., Gallone, A., Farr, J, Casagrande Cicci, E., and N. Terrenato 2018. “A Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex at Gabii.” Papers of the British School at Rome 86: 1-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246217000423
Banducci, L., Opitz, R., and Mogetta, M. 2018. “Measuring use wear on black gloss pottery from Rome through 3D surface analysis.” Internet Archaeology 50. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.12
Mogetta, M., Banducci, L., and Opitz, R. 2017 “Roman Black Gloss Pottery from the Capitoline Museum: A New 3D Scanning Endeavor at the University of Missouri.” MVSE. Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology. University of Missouri 50 (2016) [2017]: 33-44.
Mogetta, M. 2016. “The Early Development of Concrete in the Domestic Architecture of Pre- Roman Pompeii.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 29: 43-72.
Mogetta, M. 2015. “A New Date for Concrete in Rome.” Journal of Roman Studies 105: 1-40.
Other non-peer reviewed articles and conference proceedings:
Gallone, A., Mogetta, M., and Johnston, A. C. 2016. “Gabii in età repubblicana: Nuovi dati sui rivestimenti pavimentali di un grande edificio pubblico.” In C. Angelelli, D. Massara,
C. Sposito (eds.), Atti del XXI Colloquio AISCOM, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 18-21 March 2015, 329-334. Rome: Scripta.
Digital Catalogues and Data Collections:
Battiloro, I., Buchanan, S., Diffendale, D.P., Hollis, L., Mogetta, M. in preparation. The Venus Pompeiana Project (collection of 3D models from laser scanning and annotated finds available at https://venuspompeiana.mused.org/)
Banducci, L., Opitz, R., Mogetta, M. and Boyer, J. 2017. Hidden Treasure of Rome (collection of 3D models and morphological analyses available at https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/htr/)
Opitz, R., Mogetta, M., and Terrenato, N. 2017. The Gabii Project: Excavations at the ancient Latin city of Gabii, a neighboring and rival city-state to Rome in the 1st Millennium BCE. Open Context. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6078/M7N014GK
Book Reviews (invited):
Mogetta, M. under review. Review of G. Zuchtriegel, The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii (translated by J. Bulloch). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (submitted October 2025)
Mogetta, M. 2025. Review of From Pen to Pixel: Studies of the Roman Forum and the Digital Future of World Heritage edited by Patrizia Fortini and Krupali Krusche (L’Erma, 2021). Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 84.4.
Mogetta, M. 2024. Review of Steven J.R. Ellis, Allison L.C. Emmerson, Kevin D. Dicus, The Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii. Volume I: structure, stratigraphy, and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 784. ISBN 9780192866943. Bryn Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.08.37/
Mogetta, M. 2024. “Approaches to Bauforschung.” Review of D. Borbonus and E.A. Dumser (eds.), Building the Classical World. Bauforschung as a Contemporary Approach (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). Classical Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X24000209
Mogetta, M. 2021. Review of F. Yegül and D. Favro, Roman Architecture and Urbanism (Cambridge, 2019). American Journal of Archaeology 125.
Mogetta, M. 2021. “Re-energizing the debate on Mid-Republican Rome.” Review of S. Bernard, Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture and the Urban Economy (Oxford, 2018). Journal of Roman Archaeology 34(1): 308-313 doi:10.1017/S1047759420001270
Mogetta, M. 2020. Review of MICHAEL ANDERSON and DAMIAN ROBINSON (EDS), HOUSE OF THE SURGEON, POMPEII: EXCAVATIONS IN THE CASA DEL CHIRURGO (VI 1, 9–10.23). Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2018. Journal of Roman Studies 110. Available under First View on Cambridge Core (March 9 2020). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435820000519
Mogetta, M. 2019. Review of P. J E. Davies, Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. American Journal of Archaeology 123(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3764/ajaonline1231.mogetta
Mogetta, M. 2015. “A new approach to early urbanization in central Italy.” Review of F. Fulminante, 2014. The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus. Journal of Roman Archaeology 28: 536-44.
Pre-MU Appointment:
Book chapters:
Mogetta, M. 2014. “From Latin Planned Urbanism to Roman Colonial Layouts: the Town-planning of Gabii and its Cultural Implications.” In E. Robinson (ed.), Papers on Italian Urbanism in the First Millennium B.C. (Journal of Roman Archaeology Suppl. Series, 97): 145-174. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
Pagano, M., Ceccarelli, A., D’Andrea, A., Mogetta, M., Monaco, D., Raddi, M., Sepio, D., and Wicks, D. 2005. “La ripresa delle esplorazioni e degli scavi nel santuario di Vastogirardi (IS).” In D. Caiazzo (ed.). Italica Ars. Studi in onore di Giovanni Colonna per il premio I Sanniti: 451-506. Piedimonte Matese: Arti Grafiche Grillo.
Peer reviewed articles:
Mogetta, M. and Becker, J. A. 2014. “Archaeological Research at Gabii, Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations 2009-2011.” American Journal of Archaeology 118: 171-88.
Becker, J. A., Mogetta, M., and Terrenato, N. 2009. “A New Plan for an Ancient Italian City: Gabii Revealed.” American Journal of Archaeology 113: 629-42.
Gallone, A., Mogetta, M., and Sepio, D. 2008. “An Etruscan and Roman hilltop Settlement. Excavations at the Torre di Donoratico, Italy (2003-2004)”, Etruscan Studies 11: 81-95.
Mogetta, M., and Terrenato, N. 2007. “Architecture and Economy in an Early Imperial Settlement in Northern Etruria.” Facta 1: 107-24.
Non-peer reviewed articles and Conference proceedings:
Gallone, A., and Mogetta, M. 2013. “Gabii in età repubblicana. I rivestimenti pavimentali di alcune unità abitative.” In C. Angelelli (ed.), Atti del XVIII Colloquio AISCOM, Cremona, Italy, 14-17 March 2012: 717-25. Tivoli: Scripta Manent.
Gallone, A., and Mogetta, M. 2011. “Gabii: indagini archeologiche nel settore meridionale della città.” In G. Ghini (ed.), Lazio e Sabina 7: Atti del Convegno Settimo Incontro di Studi sul Lazio e la Sabina Roma 9-11 marzo 2010: 211-15. Rome: Quasar.
Reference entries:
Mogetta, M. 2014. “Latium Vetus – Latium Adjectum.” In C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: 4450-59. Springer: New York.
Mogetta, M. 2005. “Latina via, VII miglio.” In A. La Regina (ed.), Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae
– Suburbium, vol. 3: 195-202. Rome: Quasar.
Book reviews (invited):
Mogetta, M. 2013. Review of S. T. Roselaar, Processes of Identity Formation and Integration in the Roman Republic. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Ancient History Bulletin On-line 3: 28-34.
Mogetta, M. 2011. “Pottery and Settlement Archaeology in Early Italy.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 24: 527-32. (Review of Ceramiche, abitati e territorio nella bassa valle del Tevere e Latium Vetus. Edited by M. Rendeli. Rome 2009).
Grants & Fellowships
Grants & Fellowships
2026–2028 NEH Collaborative Research Grant RZ-306536-26 ($249,834 awarded). Project: Recreating Urban Biographies in Roman Italy: The Gabii Project Reports. Role: PI.
2024–2025 MU Materials Science & Engineering Institute (MSEI) Supplemental Grant ($10,000 awarded). Project: Experiments towards the characterization and replication of Roman concrete technology (with B. MacDonald, M. Okoronkwo, S. Orton). Role: PI.
2024–2025 MU, College of Arts and Science, Arts and Humanities Domestic Travel Program ($1,000 awarded October 2024)
2024–2025 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship ($39,641 awarded). Project: The Venus Pompeiana Publication Project. Role: PI.
2024 MU Graduate Professional Council, Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
2024 MU Materials Science & Engineering Institute (MSEI) Developmental Seed Grant ($40,000 awarded). Project: Experiments towards the characterization and replication of Roman concrete technology (with B. MacDonald, M. Okoronkwo, S. Orton). Role: PI.
2024 University of Missouri, CAR, Barbara Wallach Research Fund ($3,500). Project: Publishing the Gabii Project Reports, Volume 3. Role: PI.
2023-2026 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Grant (CAN$ 163,000). Project: Rhythms of Roman Urbanism: The Gabii Project (with L. Banducci, A. Gallone, R. Opitz, N. Terrenato). Role: Collaborator.
2022–2024 University of Missouri, Provost’s Office, Arts & Humanities Creative Work Fellows Program ($12,500). Project: Chasing Venus in Pompeii.
2022–2023 University of Missouri, College of Arts & Science, Research Fellowship Program ($7,000)
2020 AIA Publication Subvention Grant ($3,000). Project: The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture.
2019–2022 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Grant (CAN$198,031). Project: Uncovering Pre-Roman Pompeii: New Excavations at the Sanctuary of Venus (with I. Battiloro). Role: Collaborator.
2019–2020 University of Missouri, Research Council Grant ($12,500). Project: Creating Digital Digs: A New 3D Survey of the Temple of Venus in Pompeii (with S. Buchanan). Role: PI.
2018–2019 MU College of Arts & Science, Research Leave Program ($6,600).
2018–2019 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University ($21,600). Project: At the Roots of Roman Urbanism: New Excavations at Gabii, Italy. Role: PI.
2018 Margo Tytus Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University of Cincinnati (Fall 2018; ($6,000). Project: The Origins of Roman Concrete: A Social History of Rome’s Architectural Revolution.
2018 AIA Cotsen Grant for First Time Directors ($25,000). National competition; one awarded yearly. Project: The Venus Pompeiana Project: Monumental Architecture, Religion, and Cultural Change at the Temple of Venus in Pompeii. Role: PI.
2017–2018 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University ($20,000). Project: At the Roots of Roman Urbanism: New Excavations at Gabii, Italy. Role: PI.
2017–2018 University of Missouri, Smith-Popielski Faculty Fellowship in Classical Studies ($2,500). Project: Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy.
2016–2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant: At the Roots of Roman Urbanism: The Gabii Project ($250,000). Co-PI (with N. Terrenato of the University of Michigan).
2016–2017 University of Missouri, Research Council, Faculty International Travel Award ($1,916).
2016–2017 University of Missouri System, Research Board Grant ($31,702). Project: CALC-Rome: Capturing the Life Cycle of Ceramics in Rome. Role: PI.
2016–2017 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University ($29,600). Project: At the Roots of Roman Urbanism: New Excavations at Gabii, Italy. Role: PI.
2015–2016 University of Missouri, Mizzou Advantage Grant ($25,000). Project: The Hidden Treasures of Rome: Capturing the Life Cycle of Roman Pottery. Role: PI.
2015–2016 University of Missouri, Research Council Large Grant ($9,807). Project: The Hidden Treasures of Rome: Capturing the Life Cycle of Roman Pottery. Role: PI.
Pre-MU appointment:
2013–2014 Nominated for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
2012–2013 University of Michigan, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
2012–2013 University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate Student Research Award ($3,500). Project title: Geochemistry and the Origins of Roman Concrete.
2011–2014 NEH Collaborative Grants. Gabii Project ($250,000). Role: Collaborator.
2011–2012 University of Michigan, Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship.
2010–2011 University of Michigan, Simon A. Courtade Award
2010–2011 University of Michigan, Rackham International Research Award ($7,500). Project title: Roads to Politics: Orthogonal Town-Planning and State Formation in Early Roman Italy.
2009–2010 University of Michigan, John G. Pedley Research/Travel Award ($2,000).
2007–2010 University of Michigan, LSA Regent’s Fellowship.
2007–2008 University of Michigan, Center for European Studies Summer Grant ($ 1,500).
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