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 a talk on October 24th at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World's series “Fellows in Focus” entitled “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, Professor Rodríguez 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.