Assistant Professor Gretel Rodríguez recently published “Empathy in Roman Commemorative Art,” in History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts, edited by Susan Barahal and Elizabeth Pugliano. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
In Spring 2026, she will join the Brown University Cogut Institute for the Humanities as a Faculty Fellow, and this award will support her research on the art and archaeology of ancient Rome.
Professor Rodríguez gave a number of talks this year, including on October 24th at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World's series “Fellows in Focus.” Her lecture was titled “Sacred Water, Votives, and Architecture in the Gallo-Roman Spring Sanctuary at Nîmes,”
On December 6th, Professor Rodríguez co-organized and participated in the Anita Glass Memorial Symposium, Futures of the Past: New Perspectives on the Arts of the Pre-Modern World.
On April 5th, Gretel co-chaired another conference titled “Architectural Sculpture in the Ancient World: A Cross-Cultural View,” Brown University, Program in Early Cultures, with Meghan Rubenstein (Colorado College). The papers resulting from this symposium are now in preparation for an upcoming publication.
On May 2-3: Rodríguez participated in the symposium “The Gilded Collector: Copies, Casts, Fabrications and the Formation of American Taste (c. 1870-1940),” organized by the Classics Department and the Program in Early Cultures at Brown University.
There, she delivered the lecture “A Tale of Two Casts: the Portal of Saint-Gilles in Paris and Pittsburgh.”
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Image: Captive from Trophy Monument at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, France. Musée archéologique départemental. Photo by Gretel Rodríguez.