Andrew Johnston

Assistant Professor of Classics

His work focuses mainly on questions of memory, identity, cultural interaction, and the representation of selves and others, both at Rome and on the peripheries of the ancient world.

His dissertation and first book project, The Sons of Remus, examines local community and individual identities in the Roman provinces of Spain and Gaul, and the central role of social memory in the construction and performance of those identities. Through a combination of archaeological, literary, and especially epigraphic evidence, the study works toward an alternative model for understanding Roman imperialism in the West.

Other current projects include studies of public feasting in the western Roman provinces and of the place of India in the Roman imperial imagination, and papers on aspects of Caesar’s commentarii and the Alexander Romance.

Additionally, he has strong research and teaching interests in archaeology and material culture, and since 2009 he has worked in central Italy as a member of the excavation staff of the Gabii Project, where he currently serves as Director of the Field School.